Israeli army chief visits Turkey to hold talks on Iran’s nuclear program
dandelion salad | 19.03.2010 14:24 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Other Press | World
Already during the Clinton Administration of 1993-2001, a triangular military alliance between the US, Israel and Turkey had unfolded. This ‘triple alliance’ is coupled with a strong bilateral military relationship between Tel Aviv and Ankara.
Amply documented, Israel and Turkey are partners in the planned US aerial attacks on Iran, which have been in an advanced state of readiness since mid-2005.
Amply documented, Israel and Turkey are partners in the planned US aerial attacks on Iran, which have been in an advanced state of readiness since mid-2005.
Gabi Ashkenazi and Ilker Basbug had a meeting in Ankara on March 15th, 2010
Israeli army chief visits Turkey to hold talks on Iran’s nuclear program
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Editorial note:
Already during the Clinton Administration of 1993-2001, a triangular military alliance between the US, Israel and Turkey had unfolded. This ‘triple alliance’ is coupled with a strong bilateral military relationship between Tel Aviv and Ankara. Amply documented, Israel and Turkey are partners in the planned US aerial attacks on Iran, which have been in an advanced state of readiness since mid-2005.
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1) Israeli army chief Gabi Ashkenazi holds security talks in Turkey (15 March 2009)
from the archives:
2) Israeli army chief Dan Halutz visits Turkey to discuss the Iranian threat (December 2005)
3) Turkey agrees to Israeli exercises near Iranian borders (December 2005)
4) CIA Director Porter Goss tells Turkey to be ready for US air strikes against Iran and Syria (December 2005)
related links:
5) CSIS report: Turkey would be the optimum route for a possible Israeli attack on Iran (March 2009)
6) Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul says Israeli raid a “closed matter” (November 2007)
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http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=171037 excerpts from: Ashkenazi holds security talks in Turkey
by Yaakov Katz, Jerusalem Post, 15 March 2010
IDF [Israeli army] Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi flew to Ankara on Monday to hold talks with his Turkish counterpart Gen. Ilker Basbug.
Ashkenazi also participated in a NATO terrorism conference on the sidelines where he met privately with Basbug and Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul. […]
Ashkenazi discussed regional security issues with a focus on Iran’s nuclear program as well as the rearmament of Hizbullah in southern Lebanon. […]
Ashkenazi’s trip on Monday is the first visit by an IDF [Israeli army] chief of staff since the 2005 visit by Dan Halutz. […]
“This visit is on the military-strategic level, not a diplomatic level. The Turks are not hiding it and neither are we,” [IDF spokesman Brig.-Gen. Avi Benayahu said].
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from the archives:
excerpts from: Halutz, Turkish officials discuss Iranian threat during visit
by Metehan Demir, Jerusalem Post, 23 December 2005
During a one-day working visit to Ankara [on December 22, 2005, Israeli army chief Dan] Halutz met with his Turkish counterpart Chief of General Staff Gen. Hilmi Ozkok, and discussed common concerns such as Islamist terrorism and Iran’s suspicious nuclear activities.
A briefing presented by the Turkish military laid out Iran’s efforts to obtain nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles (the Shihab 4 and 5) which could reach Turkish territory. Halutz was told that Iran causes uncertainty and risk for Turkey as well as the region. […] [T]he international community should step up pressure on Iran to give up these dangerous attempts, members of the Turkish General Staff added.
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from the archives:
excerpts from: UAE daily says Turkey agrees to Israeli exercises near Iranian borders
E’temad website, 28 December 2005 (via BBC Monitoring, 29 December 2005)
According to the agreement reached by the Joint Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, Dan Halutz, and Turkish officials, Israel is to carry out various military manoeuvres in the areas that border Iran and Syria. [Dan Halutz] had gone to Turkey a few days earlier. […]
The Israeli side made the request to carry out the manoeuvres because of the difficulty of passage in the mountain terrains close to Iran’s borders in winter. […]
The [Hakkari and Bolu] units are the most important of Israel’s special military units and are charged with fighting terrorism and carrying out guerrilla warfare. Earlier Turkey had agreed to Israeli pilots being trained in the area bordering Iran.
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excerpts from: CIA’s Goss reportedly warned Ankara of Iranian threat
Dunya, 13 December 2005
During his recent visit to Ankara, CIA Director Porter Goss […] asked Ankara to be ready for a possible US air operation against Iran and Syria.
Goss, who came to Ankara just after FBI Director Robert Mueller’s visit, […] Goss first told Ankara that Iran has nuclear weapons and this situation was creating a huge threat for both Turkey and other states in the region. […]
The second dossier is about Iran’s stance on terrorism. The CIA argued that Iran was supporting terrorism, the PKK and al-Qaeda.
The third had to do with Iran’s alleged stance against Ankara. Goss said that Tehran sees Turkey as an enemy and would try to ‘export its regime’.
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related links:
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/csis-report-turkey-would-be-the-optimum-route-for-a-possible-israeli-attack-on-iran/ excerpts from: Study on a possible Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear development facilities
by Abdullah Toukan, Anthony H.Cordesman and Arleigh A. Burke
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 16 March 2009
“A military strike by Israel against Iranian Nuclear Facilities is possible and the optimum route would be along the Syrian-Turkish border then over a small portion of Iraq then into Iran, and back the same route. […]
If the Israeli aircraft do actually fly over Turkey that would constitute a clear Turkish – Israel and even U.S. conspiracy to attack Iran, so the Political risks could be high with Turkey.
Operationally, the risk from Syria would be low, whereas the risk from Turkey could be of medium level if Turkey deems it necessary to react militarily.”
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL06691733 Turkey’s Gul says Israeli raid a “closed matter”
Reuters, 6 November 2007
“It is no easy thing to discover that combat jets from a friendly state [i.e. Israel] have penetrated your skies overnight. It is good that you apologised, even though the apology was late. As we see it, the matter is closed and we hope that it will not be repeated in the future”
[Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul, commenting on the September 2007 Israeli Air Force bombing raid on Syria through Turkey, interview with Israel’s Maariv newspaper, 6 November 2007]
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US: Turkey has responsibilities that extend beyond its immediate neighbourhood
19.03.2010 14:28
1) US Assistant Secretary of State: Turkey has international responsibilities that extend beyond its immediate neighbourhood (17 March 2010)
2) US Ambassador to Ankara welcomes Turkey to the U.N. Security Council (November 2008)
relevant documents:
3) Obama: Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile activity poses a real threat to Iran’s neighbors and our allies (5 April 2009)
4) Obama: No one in the Middle East is served by Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions, least of all Turkey (6 April 2009)
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“Turkey has international responsibilities that extend beyond its immediate neighborhood. […]
We do not believe that Turkey’s decision to abstain […] [from voting on the IAEA resolution against Iran's nuclear work] last November helped [our shared goal of a peaceful diplomatic resolution of this issue]. [...]
[W]e hope that Turkey will join the broad group of nations in the UN Security Council who are seeking to hold Iran to its IAEA and Security Council obligations.”
[US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian affairs Philip H. Gordon, annual Sakip Sabanci Lecture at the Brookings Institution, Washington, 17 March 2010 ] [1]
“ [A]s we await the results of the [2008 US presidential] election, there is no doubt that the United States will continue to bring the most pressing issues facing international security to the UN Security Council. It is in that context that we welcome Turkey’s recent election for a two-year term on the council. […]
Perhaps most urgent among those issues is Iran’s continuing defiance of the council’s will regarding its nuclear program. […] We look forward to continued close work with Turkey to maintain the international focus on this issue.”
[US Ambassador to Turkey Ross Wilson (2005-2008), 4 November 2008] [2]
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“So let me be clear: Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile activity poses a real threat, not just to the United States, but to Iran’s neighbors and our allies.”
[US President Barack Obama’s speech in Prague, 5 April 2009] [3]
“The peace of the region will also be advanced if Iran forgoes any nuclear weapons ambitions. Now, as I made clear in Prague yesterday, no one is served by the spread of nuclear weapons, least of all Turkey.”
[US President Barack Obama’s speech to Turkey’s parliament in Ankara, 6 April 2009] [4]
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relevant links:
Israeli army chief visits Turkey to hold talks on Iran’s nuclear program (16 March 2010)
European mayors want withdrawal of US nukes from their territory (6 December 2007)
2020 Vision Campaign website, 6 December 2007
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notes:
[1] The United States and Turkey: A view from the Obama Administration
by Philip H. Gordon, Brookings Institution website, 17 March 2010
[2] Ambassador Wilson welcomes Turkey to the U.N. Security Council
by Ross Wilson, US Ankara Embassy website, 4 November 2008
[3] Remarks by President Barack Obama in Prague as delivered
The White House website, 5 April 2009
[4] Remarks by President Barack Obama to the Turkish parliament
The White House website, 6 April 2009
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The ongoing denial by the ‘antiwar community’
20.03.2010 02:59
What is equally shocking is to see that the ‘antiwar community’, assuming that there still can be said to be such a thing, continues to largely reject the notion that we are on the verge of yet another major war based on lies. This is an indication of the utter, crushing defeat that the Left has suffered in America. WE HAVE BEEN UTTERLY DEFEATED AND WE CONTINUE TO REFUSE TO RECOGNIZE THIS, and as a result we carry on as before, as if there weren’t a gigantic, flaming problem. And what makes this all the more sad is that the potential power of the Left is greater than it has ever been. Vast majorities in society are fully aware that the system stinks. They are looking for answers. They are DESPERATE for answers.
There has never been a time when the Left was more needed, but coopted ‘leaders’, from Markos to Obama (in many cases the Left has accepted as leaders people who NEVER were progressives) has stifled the Left. It seems to be a version of the Stockholm Syndrome. Beaten down for decades now, many FauxGressives have chosen to side with their tormenters. How else does one explain the fanatical lefty and progressive devotion to deep-dyed DLC types like Obama? This man has spit in the face of everything we believe in. He has dared to evoke the name of MLK while making a pro-war speech at Nobel, and still many on the left cling to him with a kind of desperation. And EVEN NOW, those who are aware enough to oppose Obama are smeared as “racist” by their ‘friends’ on the Left. Do you for one moment think that Martin Luther King would not fervently oppose Obama were he with us today? Can you possibly be so delusional that you think King would support this man?
How sad it is that a group has finally made a desperate public plea to the antiwar movement to please, please, finally come to your senses and realize that we MUST oppose the coming war against Iran …
… much thanks to Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) for taking this step, which shouldn’t have been necessary, but which nonetheless was necessary.
Phil
The Common Denominator
20.03.2010 12:32
"Already during the Clinton Administration of 1993-2001, a triangular military alliance between the US, Israel and Turkey had unfolded. This ‘triple alliance’ is coupled with a strong bilateral military relationship between Tel Aviv and Ankara.
Amply documented, Israel and Turkey are partners in the planned US aerial attacks on Iran, which have been in an advanced state of readiness since mid-2005."
On the surface there seems to be little in common between the cultures of the US, Israel and Turkey but when you do a little historical research then you tend to see what connects these strange entities. The US is predominantly Christian, Israel is exclusively Jewish and most of the people in Turkey are Muslim but it is not really the people of these countries that make the decisions is it.
Freemasonry is the common thread and the governments are set up on masonic lines... this is verifiable information.
Klamber
CSIS report designates Turkey as the optimum route for a possible Israeli attack
07.04.2010 09:48
Once again, a CSIS report designates Turkey as the optimum route for a possible Israeli attack on Iran
[propaganda alert]
Three weeks before the US President Barack Obama’s visit to Ankara in April 2009, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published a report which claimed that Turkey would be the optimum route for a possible Israeli attack on Iran.
A new CSIS report released in March 2010 makes exactly the same point.
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1) Once again, a CSIS report designates Turkey as the optimum route for a possible Israeli attack on Iran (23 March 2010)
2) Israeli army chief Gabi Ashkenazi visits Turkey to hold talks on Iran’s nuclear program (15 March 2010)
from the archives:
3) Pentagon offers Patriot anti-ballistic missiles to Turkey (September 2009)
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excerpts from: Options in Dealing with Iran’s Nuclear Program
by Anthony H. Cordesman and Abdullah Toukan, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 23 March 2010
“We conclude that a military strike by Israel against Iranian Nuclear Facilities is possible and the optimum route would be along the Syrian-Turkish border then over a small portion of Iraq then into Iran, and back the same route. […]
The flight route [along Turkey’s border with Syria] would also be ideal for the F-15’s and the F-16’s to do aerial refueling from airborne tankers, on ingress and egress [i.e. entry and exit] from Iran. […] Refueling can [also] be done [on a] temporary landing strip, along the Syrian, Turkish and Northern Iraq region […]
Israel could again utilize its EW [Electronic Warfare] capabilities [to disable the air defense systems of Iran and Syria] as during the [bombing] raid [through Turkey’s airspace] on Dayr az-Zawr, Syria, on September, 2007. […]
If the Israeli aircraft do actually fly over Turkey that would constitute a clear Turkish – Israel and even U.S. conspiracy to attack Iran, so the Political risks could be high with Turkey. Operationally, […] the risk from Turkey could be of medium level if Turkey deems it necessary to react militarily.”
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excerpts from: Ashkenazi holds security talks in Turkey
by Yaakov Katz, Jerusalem Post, 15 March 2010
[Israeli Army Chief] Gabi Ashkenazi flew to Ankara on Monday to hold talks with his Turkish counterpart Gen. Ilker Basbug. […]
Ashkenazi discussed regional security issues with a focus on Iran’s nuclear program as well as the rearmament of Hizbullah in southern Lebanon. […]
“This visit is on the military-strategic level, not a diplomatic level. The Turks are not hiding it and neither are we,” [said Israel Defense Forces spokesman Avi Benayahu].
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from the archives:
excerpt from: Turkey – PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 Guided Missiles
US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), 9 September 2009
“Today the [US] Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Turkey of 13 PATRIOT Fire Units, 72 PATRIOT Advanced Capability (PAC-3) missiles, four PAC-3 Lot Validation Missiles, 197 MIM-104E PATRIOT Guidance Enhanced Missiles-T (GEM-T), four MIM-104E GEM-T Lot Validation Missiles, five PATRIOT Digital Missiles, five Anti-Tactical Missiles and other related support and equipment. The estimated cost is $7.8 billion.”
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related links:
President Gul: Iran’s ultimate aspiration is to acquire nuclear weapons (29 March 2010)
NATO chief: Iran’s Shahab-3 missiles will put Turkey, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria within reach (27 March 2010)
US official: Turkey has international responsibilities that extend beyond its immediate neighbourhood (18 March 2010)
Israeli army chief visits Turkey to hold talks on Iran’s nuclear program (16 March 2010)
Israeli minister warns Turkey: Iran’s nuclear programme would pose a danger for the whole world (November 2009)
Pentagon offers Patriot missiles to Turkey (September 2009)
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US Ambassador to Turkey: Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons is a great danger to Turkey (June 2009)
Obama: No one in the Middle East is served by Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions, least of all Turkey (April 2009)
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Flashback: Will Turkey be complicit in another war against another neighbour?
09.04.2010 18:21
After giving a speech in Turkey's parliament, Peres shakes Erdogan's hand, 2007
by Cem Ertür, 24 February 2008
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