Monday, March 25, 2019

Turkey disgruntled by US support for Greece, Cyprus, Israel summit

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/03/turkey-israel-usa-supported-jerusalem-summit.html?utm_campaign=20190325&utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%20Newsletter

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Turkey may have an air force, but the pilots who flew until recently are (mostly) all in jail. She has a military industrial complex that builds ships and submarines, but like the drill ships she has put out to sea, they remain manned by crews of very little experience.

...Erdogan may have dreams for Turkey he can justify; and he has demonstrated his capacity to move quickly on many grand schemes. I ask, will he go too far? Having in affect isolated himself from the rest of the world, "Turkishness" has taken a value, greater than the Universal qualities that bind us, "Turkish" and not "Turkish", alike. What with an Ottoman past, and an intention to end the Kemalist intervention on the State of Turkey for his own, he has high ambitions.

...i would like to see many more tables, like Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus, one with Syria, Cyprus, and Turkey, seems just as likely to produce the favorable results that so far have been demonstrated, with all the Tripartite meetings.

...what seems apparent is that Turkey seeks, by ignoring Cyprus' Sovereignty, (and the Treaty of Lausanne), supremacy over and under a span of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea which includes anything east of Italian shores, between Libya, and Egypt southward, west of the shores of Lebanon and Syria: "her" Continental Shelf;
(lol) Greece is next indeed.

Turkey may survive Erdogan, he may surprise us all with a small change in intentions, this "but one", meriting the rest of the world's esteem; Cyprus is not small in that regard. And in that regard, being Turkey's National Issue, only a (re)united Cyprus provides Hope to the People of Turkey, now divided by "Turkishness", as were the Cypriots.

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