Meengla
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I think this is a pure publicity stunt. He wants to get popular world wide, look now all international news channels must be streaming this as a breaking news.
This issue could have been dealt in a better way. Anyway just let sit back and watch as the story unfolds
'Pure publicity stunt'?! A stunt which is going to put Turkey in the radar of the very powerful forces unleashed since 9/11 to portray everything as 'War Against Terrorism'? A stunt which is very likely to at least delay Turkish EU membership. A stunt which is going to hurt Turkish economy, or at least its tourism (about half a million Israelis alone go to Turkey each year) by portraying Turkey as another Iran? A stunt which can eventually be a trigger for Israel's implants in the West to diplomatically corner Turkey over Kurdistan and the Armenian question?
I think not. This is not a stunt at all.
Turkey is waking up to this true roots which were always in the East. Only a sliver of Turkey lies in Europe. Only a few decades separate the now-Kemalist Turkey to its Ottoman Empire. And few decades of policy changes do not make tens of millions to forget their true 'roots'.
Turkey gains a lot by following its instinct to be close to the East. It may well one day regain its lost prestige AND, as a byproduct, vast business contracts by 'turning East'. The Arabs 'streat', which is pro-Turkey these days, will one day become Arab official voice. And Turkey does not have to become a nation of public-floggings and beheadings like Iran is today to be a Muslim democratic country. Only some self-centered Turkish generals sipping vodka would be paranoid enough to stop the Turkish march to independence and prominence.