Headlines:
- Turkey-“Israel” defense deals back on agenda – report
- Germany to Send AWACS Planes to Turkey
- Turkey’s Kurds call for self-rule amid violence in southeast
Turkey-“Israel” defense deals back on agenda – report
Turkey is eager to renew defense cooperation with “Israel”, defense sources have told the Turkish newspaper “Zaman” as part of the restoration of full diplomatic relations broken off after the Marmara flotilla incident in 2010. In that incident 10 Turkish activists were killed when trying to run the blockade of Gaza.
Turkish military sources told “Zaman” “Ankara is looking to revive military cooperation with “Israel” and looks forward to purchasing key technologies like advanced UAVs and reconnaissance and surveillance systems from Tel Aviv.”
Those sources added, “Turkish authorities are contemplating reviving several projects that were postponed after the Mavi Marmara incident. The “Israeli” Defense Ministry canceled the license of “Israeli” defense firms “Israel” Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) and Elbit Systems Ltd. for selling advanced intelligence systems to the Turkish Air Force (THK) after the Mavi Marmara incident. Ankara retaliated by canceling other defense contracts and Turkish defense company ASELSAN took its money back from a deal with two “Israeli” firms.”
“The THK struck a deal worth $165 million with “Israeli” firms IAI and Elbit in 2008,” “Zaman” recounts, “to modernize its aging F-4 fleet by placing advanced reconnaissance and surveillance systems on jets. A year later, Turkey paid “Israeli” companies $55 million before the project was completed. When the project was called off, the Turkish Ministry of Defense demanded its money be returned.”
“Zaman added, “Another crisis that crippled the Turkish military’s efforts in the fight against terrorism is the breakdown in cooperation over UAVs. Turkey in the mid-2000s bought a number of Heron UAVs and began operating them from a ground station in the Southeast. When relations broke down after the Mavi Marmara incident, Turkey faced significant setbacks in operating the UAVs. Turkey currently has one ground station and is only able to operate three Herons at the same time.” [Source: Globes]
The Jewish entity press is excited about renewal of Turkey-“Israel” relations, so is Turkish rulers. At last they took orders to rebuild good relations. The only problem needs to be solved is the “public opinion”. Fortunately this “little problem” can be solved grace of “perception management”.
Germany to Send AWACS Planes to Turkey
Germany will send Airborne Early Warning and Control Systems (AWACS) to Turkey to help augment the NATO ally’s airspace from potential threats from Syria.
A London-based Turkey specialist said the move aims to deter primarily Russian aggression against Turkish aircraft patrolling the country’s Syria border.
“This is a message to Russia in the aftermath of the crisis,” the analyst said. “It is NATO’s best interests if a potential Turkish-Russian conflict is prevented.”
Russia pledged to take revenge — and “not just by means of commercial sanctions” — after two Turkish F-16s shot down a Russian SU-24 on Nov. 24, citing a brief violation of the Turkish airspace along the Syrian border.
On Dec. 22, Germany withdrew its Patriot air and anti-missile defense systems from Turkish soil after a three-year-long deployment. The move came shortly after NATO agreed to strengthen efforts to protect Turkey’s southern borders and airspace.
Germany, along with other NATO allies, deployed the Patriots in Turkey to help the Turkish better counter any potential missile threat from Syria. [Source: Defence News]
As a member of NATO, Turkey continues supplying NATO forces to its best. This situation gives a very big advantage to the colonialists. As a Muslim country, Turkey should cancel all treaties and agreements made with imperialists.
Turkey’s Kurds call for self-rule amid violence in southeast
Kurdish groups meeting in southeastern Turkey called for self-rule on Sunday amid heavy fighting in the region as the army pushed ahead with a security operation in which it says more than 200 Kurdish militants have been killed.
The Democratic People’s Congress (DTK), made up of Kurdish non-governmental organizations, made the call after a two-day meeting in Diyarbakir.
“The rightful resistance mounted by our people against the policies that degrade the Kurdish problem, is essentially a demand and struggle for local self-governance and local democracy,” said the final resolution of the meeting, titled “declaration of political resolution regarding self-rule”.
The declaration called for the formation of autonomous regions including several neighboring provinces of Diyarbakir to take account of cultural, economic and geographic affinities.
Turkey has been alarmed by territorial gains by Kurds in Syria’s civil war, which it fears could stir separatism among its own Kurdish minority.
A two-year ceasefire between Kurdish militants and Ankara fell apart in July, plunging the southeast back into a three-decades-old conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people. [Source: Reuters]
Global Capitalist powers have divided Muslim lands to more than 50 countries. The new plan for Iraq and Syria is to divided them to more than 3 pieces each. Nothing can stop them until Muslim people re-unite under one flag, one government and one army.