The first one is a double cross:
"Turkey says it will escort Gaza aid flotillas" September 10, 2011|New York Times
JERUSALEM - Israel was wrestling yesterday with growing tensions with Turkey after the Turkish prime minister threatened to use his navy to accompany aid flotillas to Gaza and to challenge Israel’s plans for gas exploration and export in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Related: Turkey Cuts Ties With Israel
Is it possible the Turks are only using the Palestinians as tools?
The prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told Al Jazeera, the Arabic TV network, that he would use his warships to prevent Israeli commandos from again boarding a Gaza-bound ship as they did last year, killing nine passengers, and from letting Israel exploit natural gas resources at sea....
When they actually escort them into a port in Gaza I'll be happy.
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Also see: Israel Grabs Lebanese Gas
The gas would also explain Israel's recent gravitation towards Greece.
"In sign of improved US ties, Turkey joins NATO missile defense system" September 15, 2011|By Selcan Hacaoglu, Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey - An early-warning radar will be stationed in Turkey’s southeast as part of NATO’s missile defense system, the foreign ministry announced yesterday. The deployment reflects improving relations with the United States, which were strained after the Iraq invasion....
I'm beginning to wonder if the tensions with Israel are not a charade.
Either that or the globalists and Zionists are separating.
The deployment in Turkey, the biggest Muslim voice in NATO, signals improving ties with Washington since the 2003 Iraq invasion. Turkey also closely works with US forces in NATO operations in Afghanistan and Libya....
Earlier this week, Turkey confirmed talks with the US for possible deployment of Predator drones on its soil after the US leaves Iraq. The US currently shares drone surveillance data with Turkey to aid its fight against Kurdish rebels who have bases in Iraq. Turkish authorities did not specify whether they want armed drones or just surveillance ones.
The Kurdish bases are also Mossad stations.
Turkey’s announcement about the radar came a day after Romania signed a deal to host a crucial part of a US missile defense system. Romania’s President Traian Basescu announced the deal after meeting with President Obama in Washington.
NATO members agreed last year at a summit in Lisbon, Portugal, to an antimissile system over Europe to protect against Iranian ballistic missiles. A compromise not to pinpoint Iran was reached with Turkey, which had threatened to block the deal if its neighbor was explicitly named as a threat.
Turkey has built close economic ties with Iran and has been at odds with the United States on its stance toward Iran’s nuclear program, arguing for a diplomatic solution to the standoff rather than sanctions.
But the agreement over hosting the radar comes at a time when Turkey and Iran appear to be differing on their approach toward Syria....
That's another double cross.
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The third and fourth cross:
"Libyan fighters hit Khadafy holdouts on several fronts; Turkish leader visits Tripoli to offer support" by Simon Denyer, Washington Post / September 17, 2011
TRIPOLI, Libya - Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, flew into Tripoli to meet the new government, stopping to join Friday prayers and address a small crowd in the city’s central Martyrs’ Square. He joined in calls for Khadafy and his supporters to lay down their arms and warned the “oppressors’’ in Syria that they also would not survive....
In Tripoli, Erdogan urged the people of Surt to join the movement for democracy in Libya, and he stepped up his rhetoric against the rule of Syria’s president, Bashar Assad.
Erdogan’s comments echoed those of President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain in Libya on Thursday, saying Libya’s example gave hope to those fighting oppression in Syria.
How about those in Yemen or Bahrain?
“You are the ones who showed the whole world that no administration can stand in the way of the might and will of the people,’’ Erdogan told a cheering crowd in Tripoli. “Do not forget this: Those in Syria who inflict repression on the people will not be able to stand on their feet.’
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"Turkey says Syrian regime will fall; Assad will ‘have to pay price’ for mounting deaths" by Bassem Mroue, Associated Press / September 17, 2011
BEIRUT - Turkey’s prime minister said yesterday that his once-close allies in Syria’s authoritarian regime will fall in a reckoning for the bloody crackdown on their own people, as activists there reported at least 17 more dead in new raids on antigovernment protesters. One protest group put the death toll as high as 32.
The prediction from Turkey’s premier, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, significantly deepens Syria’s isolation and is especially potent because it comes from a former ally and a rapidly emerging power in the Middle East. Adding to the gravity of his remarks, he made them in Libya’s capital, where Erdogan celebrated the fall of another strongman, Moammar Khadafy.
“Those who are attacking their people with tanks and guns will not be able to remain in power,’’ Erdogan said at a press conference. Syria’s president, Bashar Assad, “will eventually have to pay the price for this,’’ he said, just like the leaders of Egypt, Tunisia, and - most recently - Libya.
But not Bahrain or Yemen?
Earlier, he told a crowd of thousands of cheering Libyans that leaders cannot prosper through oppression.
“The era of autocracy is ending. Totalitarian regimes are disappearing,’’ he said. “The people’s rule is coming.’’
Britain’s foreign secretary, William Hague, echoed those sentiments.
“The Arab Spring demonstrates that the universal aspiration for open societies, political freedoms, and transparent and accountable government cannot be suppressed,’’ he said. “President Assad and his regime are deluding themselves if they believe they can halt this tide.’’
Turkey was once a major ally of Syria, but its leaders have grown increasingly frustrated with Damascus....
Even Syria’s closest ally, Iran, has called on Assad to end the violence in a sign of growing alarm over the six-month-old uprising.
See: Iran Splits With Syria
Despite yesterday’s deaths, Syrian troops failed to stop thousands from pouring into streets nationwide.
The activists reported new demonstrations from the capital, Damascus, and its suburbs to the southern province of Daraa, where the protest movement was born in mid-March. Crowds also gathered in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour as well as the province of Latakia on the Mediterranean coast and in central regions....
Syria-based rights activist Mustafa Osso said thousands also took to the streets of predominantly Kurdish northeastern towns....
Heavy restrictions on journalists have made it impossible to independently verify the accounts of either side.
The Friday protests, which have become a weekly ritual after the midday Muslim prayer services, were held under the banner, “We will continue until we bring down the regime.’’
Syria’s uprising, which is targeting one of the Middle East’s most repressive regimes, began amid the wave of antigovernment protests that are transforming the Arab world from North Africa to the Persian Gulf....
I'm starting to wonder about the roots of the Arab Spring as promoted by my Zionist prism called a paper.
If you want to argue about death tolls and see how Syria doesn't get a fair shake in my agenda-pushing war-promoter:
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And speaking of attacking and slaughtering your own people:
"Turkey strikes more Kurdish rebel targets in Iraq" by Suzan Fraser Associated Press / September 21, 2011
ANKARA, Turkey—Turkey on Wednesday reportedly bombed the main Kurdish rebel base in northern Iraq and chased rebels in a mountainous area in Turkey's southeast in response to escalated attacks by the autonomy-seeking guerrillas....
The rebels, who are fighting for autonomy in Turkey from their bases in northern Iraq, have escalated attacks in recent months, killing dozens of members of the security forces and at least seven civilians since July.
Just around the time Turkey was giving Israel a hard time. Hmmmm.
Suspicion also fell on Kurdish militants following Tuesday's car bomb explosion in Ankara that killed three people and wounded 34 others. No one has claimed responsibility, however, and Islamic and leftist militants are also active in Turkey.
Oh, the stench of a false flag operation from the mouthpiece media.
Turkey is monitoring the movements of the rebels with Israeli-made Heron drones and also receives intelligence from U.S.-operated Predator drones about rebel activities inside northern Iraq.
The Kurdish situation really gets convoluted, doesn't it?
And who benefit$ in the end?
The military on Wednesday said it would launch airstrikes whenever it pinpoints the rebel targets in northern Iraq. Turkish warplanes had already bombed 132 targets in an air campaign between Aug. 17-23 and Wednesday's announcement put the total number of targets that have been hit since the beginning of the campaign at 152.
The quietest bombings you ever heard.
In the latest reported violence in Turkey, suspected Kurdish rebels attacked a van carrying a group of civilian women, killing four, and separately killed a cadet at a police training school.
I know whom I suspect, readers.
The attack on the women in Siirt occurred close to another police training school, leading to speculation that the assailants may have mistaken the van for a police vehicle. The women were on their way to celebrate with a friend who was leaving to start school in another province, said provincial governor Musa Colak.
Tens of thousands of people have died in the conflict since 1984.
Mostly Kurds, who are used to the double cross. US has cut 'em loose a couple of times.
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