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Turkish
President Erdoğan warns Russia ‘not to play with fire’
27
November, 2014
President
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has warned Russia “not to play with fire”
in the wake of a crisis between Ankara and Moscow following the
downing of a Russian jet by Turkey on Nov. 24 near the Syrian border.
“[Russian
President Vladimir] Putin says ‘those who have double standards on
terrorism are playing with fire.’ I totally agree with him,”
Erdoğan said Nov. 27 in the northern province of Bayburt.
“Indeed,
supporting the [Bashar] al-Assad regime in Syria, which has killed
380,000 people, is playing with fire. Striking opposition groups that
have international legitimacy with the excuse of fighting against
Daesh [an acronym of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL]
is playing with fire. Using an incident in which Turkey’s
righteousness is accepted by the whole world as an excuse to torment
our citizens who were in Russia to attend a fair is playing with
fire. Irresponsibly hitting trucks in the region that are there for
trade or humanitarian reasons is playing with fire. We sincerely
advise Russia not to play with fire,” he added.
Erdoğan
also expressed his willingness to meet Putin during the upcoming
climate change summit in Paris in order to find common ground and
avoid a further escalation of tension.
“We
are uncomfortable with efforts to take the dispute over the downed
jet into other areas of relations. Let’s not allow that to happen,”
he said, underlining that maintaining good relations was beneficial
for both countries.
Claiming
that Turkey’s shooting down of the Russian jet was not
“intentional” but simply a result of an automatic enforcement of
rules of engagement, Erdoğan nevertheless argued that Turkey was
right to do so.
“Turkey
has proved its honesty” by releasing audio recordings of the
warnings issued to the Russian pilots, he added.
Erdoğan
also touched on the joint press conference held by Putin and French
President François Hollande on Nov. 26, describing the former’s
comments as “unacceptable.” Denying allegations that Turkey has
been purchasing oil from ISIL, Erdoğan said the oil trade between
ISIL, Russia and the Syrian regime had been documented by the United
States.
Turkish
police pepper spray supporters of 2 prominent journalists arrested
for ‘treason’
Police in Ankara used pepper spray against supporters of two prominent journalists accused of treason over publishing photos of weapons allegedly brought to Syria by Turkish intelligence. Several thousand rallied in their support in Istanbul and Ankara.
The
Friday rally in support of the editor-in- chief and Ankara editor of
the Cumhuriyet newspaper in the Turkish capital was attended by about
1,000 people accusing the government of attempting to cover up the
weapons scandal by silencing the critics and the press.
"Shoulder-to-shoulder against fascism," the crowd chanted.
RUSSIA
SILENTLY BOMBED TURKISH ARMS CONVOY FOR ISIS; ERDOGAN CONSOLIDATES
POWER AT HOME
27
November, 2015
It
can now be confirmed that yesterday’s mystery
bombing of
Erdogan’s arms convoy for ISIS was conducted by Russia, although
both camps were silent about it.
The
Erdogan government arrested the newspaper editor for “espionage”,
in effect, virtually confirming that said convoy was delivering arms
and ammunition for the Islamic State at the City of Azaz, Syria,
which is just 5 km close to the Turkey border.
We
have been expecting Russia’s response to the unprovoked shooting
down of its Su-24 to be “cold, calculated, extensive, swift —
and most of all unexpected.”
This
is the first time that Sputnik News was so silent about Russia’s
immediate response. But RT did publish about the Erdogan government’s
arrest of the editor of Cumhuriyet newspaper for
“The
articles, published on Cumhuriyet’s front page in May, claimed that
Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) is smuggling
weapons in trucks into Syria and was caught doing so twice in
2014. The trucks were allegedly stopped and searched by police,
with photos and videos of their contents obtained by Cumhuriyet.“
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oğuz güven
That
event happened a year ago, so why published it now?
This
could be Russia’s way of indirectly acknowledging responsibility
for the Turkish ISIS supply convoy “mystery” bombing just
recently.
Another
question would be, why is Erdogan doing the arrest now?
The
answer for the latter is that Erdogan is already consolidating its
hold on to power and it would not surprise us if in the coming days,
Erdogan would stage an event that will give him the pretext to
proclaim martial law.
Not
doing so would mean his fall from power and the likelihood of
incarceration for financing Islamic State.
Erdogan gobbles up power in new Turkish government
Cengiz
Çandar Columnist
Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a news conference after
a meeting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Istanbul, Nov. 13,
2015. (photo by REUTERS/Osman Orsal)
Author: Cengiz
Çandar Posted November 25, 2015
I
was waiting for the announcement of the new Turkish
Cabinet on
Nov. 24 when a Russian
fighter jet was
shot down by a Turkish F-16 on the border between Turkey and Syria.
The magnitude of the international crisis that the incident may
generate is still too early to predict. Hearing an angry Russian
President Vladimir
Putin,
who said Russia was “stabbed in the back by those who abetted the
terrorists” and accused Turkey of aiding the Islamic State (IS) in
transporting and selling its oil, and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
canceling his visit to Ankara and calling on Russians not to go to
Turkey, it is not hard to predict the days ahead could hold very
serious developments.
The
announcement of the anxiously awaited new Turkish Cabinet revealed
the identity of the government that has been much debated. Would it
be the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan or a coalition
between the president and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu?
Following
the announcement of the new Cabinet, it is clear that the 64th
government of the Republic of Turkey is the government
of Erdogan.
One
of the 72 founding members of the ruling Justice and Development
Party (AKP), who asked to remain unidentified, talked to Al-Monitor
about the nature of the expected government a few hours before the
announcement. The official, who was until he was sidelined recently a
well-known figure within the AKP, speculated that the new government
would reflect the power that Erdogan has with some minor concessions
given to Davutoglu for face-saving purposes.
The
announcement of the new government had in store surprises even for
the most well-informed AKP veterans. The darling of theWestern
financial circles in
terms of preserving trust in the Turkish economy, former Deputy Prime
Minister Ali Babacan, who has been in charge of running the Turkish
economy for over a decade and who Davutoglu has insisted
on keeping his post, was excluded.
Former
Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek replaced Babacan, as if to assuage the
worries of international markets. Two names on the list leave no
doubt that this new government will be ruled by Erdogan: Binali
Yildirim and Erdogan’s son-in-law Berat
Albayrak,
who took key portfolios.
This
could be Erdogan’s way of protesting NATO’s paying lip service to
his attempt of enlisting the organization’s military services to
preserve his ISIS oil smuggling enterprise.
“Bilal
Erdoğan owns several maritime companies. He has allegedly signed
contracts with European operating companies to carry Iraqi stolen oil
to different Asian countries. The Turkish government buys Iraqi
plundered oil which is being produced from the Iraqi seized oil
wells. Bilal Erdoğan’s maritime companies own special wharfs in
Beirut and Ceyhan ports that are transporting ISIS’ smuggled crude
oil in Japan-bound oil tankers.”
Nevertheless,
no less than Russia’s deputy prime minister has erased any doubts
as to how exactly his country would extract revenge to the
backstabbing of Turkey.
Russian deputy PM pledges Russia will fulfil all military goals in Syria
MOSCOW,
November 26 /TASS/. Russia will do everything to achieve the goals of
its military operation in Syria, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry
Rogozin said at a meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem
on Thursday.
“If
anybody wanted to intimidate us, then they do not know our character.
The effect is going to be diametrically opposite. The question of
revenge on the criminals has turned into a nationwide issue. We
will certainly do everything to bring what we are doing to the end
and fulfill all the tasks that were assigned when we launched a
military operation against the biggest global contemporary threat,”
the Russian vice-premier said adding that Russia was actively
supporting Syria.
“We
are taking a more than active part in (fighting terrorism) by
comparison to other countries which are only articulating their
participation in the counter-terrorism operation,” the vice-premier
stressed.
“Our
presence in Syria is legitimate. We are intensively fighting a common
threat. We will certainly give all kind of support to the Syrian army
to enable it to liberate the country from international terrorists
who have already shown their bare teeth,” Rogozin said
He
does not believe that the attack on the Russian Su-24 bomber on
November 24 was an annoying incident.
Oil
revenues from the terrorist-held regions of Syria and Turkey are
accumulating on the accounts of those who are responsible for downing
the Russian bomber, Rogozin
told the Syrian top diplomat.
The
Russian jet had been attacked deliberately, the vice-premier said
adding that Russia did not believe in occasional incidents.
“We
can see Turkey’s direct and selfish interest in preserving the
status quo which consists in the Islamic State’s control over
considerable regions and areas in Syria, especially those that are
oil-rich,” Rogozin said.
“In
fact, today we can see that petroleum products are delivered from
Syria to Turkey on an industrial scale. Billions of dollars are
accumulating on the accounts of people who ordered to shoot the jet
down,” Rogozin stressed.
“The
past few days have shown who is who in the Syrian conflict; who is
fighting the Islamic State only declaratively while being its direct
patrons who are conniving at its terrorist activities,” the
vice-premier said.
“You
know the reaction of our leadership and our people to the terror
attack against our Armed Forces, which are carrying out a (military)
operation in Syria. It is a mean attack, both literally and
figuratively, against our plane, which had legitimately taken part in
the operation in Syria and had delivered strikes against the (IS)
terrorist group,” Rogozin concluded.
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