The Rise of a Sinister Russo-Turkish Axis

Very little has been published so far on the advanced rapprochement between the age-old enemies on Black Sea’s northern and southern shores.

The Russian presidential monarch’s visit is due to the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) summit, but it has been made clear by the Russian Ambassador to Turkey Vladimir Ivanovskiy that Putin intended to discuss key topics of bilateral cooperation, focusing on energy.

Economic Rapprochement

Earlier this month, in a meeting held at Moscow’s Prezident Hotel, the 2006 Awards of Merit were handed out at a ceremony sponsored by the Association for Business and Friendship between the Russian Federation and Turkey (RUTID). The obscure jury selected figures and institutions that had supposedly made significant contributions to the reinforcement of Turkish-Russian friendship in the fields of economy, art, sports and media.

Izvestia, Russia’s prominent daily, and Zaman, key propaganda tool of the Islamic Extremist Turkish premier Erdogan, were given awards in the media category. Conspicuously used as decorative bibelots, Turkish and Russian intellectuals and businessmen gave short speeches on ways to widen and deepen the bilateral relations and friendship.

Military Mutual Understanding

The event was soon overshadowed by the spectacular visit the Turkish Air Forces commander Faruk Cömert paid to Russia ten days ago, which was the first since the establishment of diplomatic relations, 87 years ago. The Turkish general returned home with the decision to immediately establish a hot line between the two countries' air force commanders. The visit’s target was mainly to reciprocate the 2004 visit of the Russian air force commander to Turkey.

Quite interestingly, an extensively apologetic discourse ensued, creating further questions about the timing of the visit, and the discussions engaged. The Turkish daily Today’s Zaman in an article written by Lale Sari Ibrahimoglu (18/6) quoted a Russian military analyst saying "Russia does not think that Turkey's acting like the bad boy of NATO will serve Russia's interests. On the contrary, Moscow has been seeking good relations with NATO and a good NATO ally like Turkey will serve and currently serves the Russian interest. For example, it was through Turkish intervention that Russia participated in this year's European and NATO navy commanders' meeting, held once a year".

According to the same newspaper " both Turkish and Russian diplomatic and military sources ruled out that the growing trust between the militaries of both countries, reflected in the increased high-level military visits by top commanders, should be interpreted as part of an alleged growing tendency within the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) to liken itself to the rather tough Russian military".

From Russian Tourism to Russian Alliance

It is interesting to notice how various spectra from old times still insist to put the concept of "people" at the epicenter of such perilous deals. Ekrem Dumanli, an Islamist Turkish journalist, in his article entitled "The weakest link of Turkish-Russian relations" (Today’s Zaman 12/6), deliberately puts it this way: "Peoples who opted to remain distant until the collapse because of ideological differences today develop sympathy. In summer times, Antalya, a city in the southwest of Turkey, becomes a Russian town where the Russian tourists find inexpensive and high-quality resorts as well as warmth and attention. Russians shift their interest from Antalya to Erzurum in the winter. More importantly, today there is no longer any reason for the enmity between the two countries, expected to last forever, to continue".

The confusing reference to Tourism is made only to be followed by the insidious ‘conclusion’ that there is no reason for enmity between Russia and Turkey! Mr. Dumanli defiantly attributes the ‘development’ to the collapse of the Soviet Union (euphemistically termed as ‘end of Cold War’), but he seems unfamiliar with the New Cold War; in addition, he naively enough presents himself as totally unaware of the US anti-missile defence systems for Eastern Europe. He even forgets that Turkey and the US are still members of the same alliance (NATO) whereas Russia has recently conducted a hateful propaganda against the NATO’s further expansion in Eastern Europe. Although Muslim, Mr. Ekrem Dumanli conveniently and ‘morally’ forgot the fair and tragic name of Chechnya.

Over the past five years, the secretive Erdogan government followed its Russian rapprochement agenda, harmfully alienating the country from its natural allies, the US and NATO. It is true that economic cooperation increased over the past few years and Turkish contractors participated in numerous tenders, taking a proactive part in Russia’s Construction Sector. Turkish companies such as ENKA, Rönesans, Nurol, Alarko and Gama maintained a line of quality beyond their European competitors.

Can all this be translated to a political rapprochement of tectonic implications? To believe Erdogan’s personal apologist, Mr. Dumanli, "It was peoples of both countries who had to suffer from the deteriorated relations"! This statement would make everyone laugh as it pertains to sheer fiction!

Both anti-democratic rulers, Kremlin’s tyrant and Ankara’s perfidious Islamist simulator, have good reasons to join forces. Both know that their countries will be rejected by the Berlin – Paris axis; both have open accounts with the West and for different reasons. The pathetic European Liberals, who offer a support to the Islamists of Turkey in order to cheat them, will be rewarded with unprecedented treachery from Erdogan’s Islamists, if they win the forthcoming elections; it will be their way of reaction to the French Free Masonic hysterical anti-Turkism.

Both Putin and Erdogan hate America and passionately expect the ultimate confirmation of the US defeat in Iraq. The two loathsome and anti-democratic rulers know that they are rejected at home; Erdogan by the majority of the people and the military; Putin by the dozens of millions of oppressed peoples, and the democratic Russians of the persecuted parties of the opposition. That is why they need each other.

As their aficionados put it "of course Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoðan and Russian President Vladimir Putin have done much to improve bilateral relations. The leaders created a miracle. Ten years ago it was impossible to imagine that Turkish and Russian leaders would come together for cooperation. However, today both leaders exert their utmost effort to improve commercial and cultural relations. Furthermore the strengthened ties do not bother other major world political players, including the US and the EU. There is no doubt that this is a huge diplomatic success. The Turkish public’s good feelings for Putin and the Russian public’s sympathy toward Tayyip Erdoðan is just like a dream".

That is why they conclude that "There is no going back in Turkish-Russian relations. Above all remarkable bridges were built between the two countries; authorities from both countries who overcame huge obstacles in the fields of education, economics and culture made enormous progress by which their peoples were pleased. For this reason state figures would by no means take any steps that could be regarded as retreat from the current situation since such a move would be disruptive to historical friendship".

Russia, Turkey, Israel, and the US

The case would be still a simple political equation, if the Turkish military were still in good terms with the US. Yet, despite the fact that the Turkish state consists in the world’s best break wave against the Islamic Terrorists, and the Turkish military are its strongest guardian and element, part of the American establishment seems to pursue an erratically anti-Turkish attitude.

Part of America’s Liberal establishment supports the anti-Turkish agenda of miniscule and geo-strategically insignificant neighbors of Turkey (Armenia and Cyprus), fuels the Kurdistan strife, promotes Erdogan and his Islamists in order to easily achieve their anti-Turkish agenda’s goals, and opposes Turkey’s natural and salutary presence in Iraq. The devious group causes tremendous damage to the US interests in Iraq, where only Turkey could replace America and Britain, and impose order and discipline, to the US interests in Israel, whereas an Israeli – Turkish alliance would end up Assad’s and Abdallah’s tyrannies within a week, and as it can be easily surmised through the aforementioned, to the US interests in the Black Sea, Caucasus and Central Asia.

The Turkish secular political parties and the military will also have no problems with a coalition with Russia and China in case for one reason or another the Anti-Turkish hysteria continues. As guards of the Democratic Order and the Secular Republic introduced by Kemal Ataturk, the Turkish secular political parties and the military stick to the ideas implemented by the great visionary and leader; either Europe and America stick to the same ideas or not is not an issue of importance. In 1940 when Europe was covered by Nazism, Turkey did not change of adapt its ideals and values to Hitler’s.

And one should not forget that in the same way Turkey protected most of the Balkans’ Jews at those days, Turkey – not America – is the Only Power that can effectively protect Israel today, turning to dust the analphabetic, barbaric and cannibalistic regimes of Damascus, Amman and Riyadh. To do so, Turkey will have to stay and will effectively stay Secular – either the apostate French Freemasonic lodge wants it so or not!