Obama Warns Erdogan over Israel, Gives Ultimatum
Al-Manar – 16/08/2010
Britain’s Financial Times reported on Monday that the US President Barack Obama personally warned Turkish Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erodgan that Washington will not sell weapons to Turkey if it does not change its position towards Israel.
Obama said that Turkey’s strained ties with Israel and increasing support of Iran could hinder an arms deal between Ankara and Washington.
The ultimatum is particularly important to Turkey, who was reportedly planning to buy American drone aircraft to attack Kurdish group PKK after the US pulls out of Iraq next year.
“The president has said to Erdogan that some of the actions that Turkey has taken have caused questions to be raised on the Hill [Congress] about whether we can have confidence in Turkey as an ally,” one senior administration official told the Financial Times.
“That means that some of the requests Turkey has made of us, for example in providing some of the weaponry that it would like to fight the PKK, will be harder for us to move through Congress,” the official was quoted as saying.
Relations between Israel and Turkey have grown increasingly strained since Israel’s three-week-long Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, which was launched in December 2008. More than 1,400 Palestinians were killed, including 420 children and over 5300 others were injured.
Erdogan condemned the Israeli offensive in Gaza, and criticized the Israeli blockade of the Palestinian enclave.
Following the offensive, Turkey called off a joint military drill with Israel, and relations were strained further after Israel rebuked the then Turkish envoy over a television show depicting Israeli soldiers as cold-blooded killers.
The most critical blow to Israeli-Turkish relations, however, came on May 31, when Israeli commandos raided a Turkish aid convoy trying to break the naval blockade on Gaza, which resulted in the deaths of nine Turkish activists. Turkey had threatened to cut off diplomatic ties with Israel, and continues to demand an official apology over the raid.
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu last week said Israel should admit sole responsibility for the killing of the nine activists.
“No one else can take the blame for killing civilians in international waters,” Davutoglu told journalists. “Israel has killed civilians, and should take the responsibility for having done so.”
Turkey, which is a NATO member and European Union member candidate, has also seen its capital rise sharply in the Muslim Middle East since Ankara’s vocal condemnation of the killings of nine pro-Palestinian activists aboard a Gaza-bound aid ship.
Ankara, together with Brazil, brokered a nuclear fuel swap in May in the hopes that the deal would draw Iran and major powers back to the negotiating table.
Turkey last week also said it would support gasoline sales by Turkish companies to Iran, despite U.S. sanctions that aim to squeeze the Islamic Republic’s fuel imports.
The U.S. administration official quoted by the Financial Times, however, said that Turkey needs to show it takes American national security interests seriously.
Washington is closely watching Turkish conduct to assess if there were “sufficient efforts that we can go forward with their request,” the official said.
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We need a President not a puppet of a foreign government who is for America and its people. The only benefit we are getting from the Zionist entity is, guaranteed destruction of our country and being despised around the world.
A Boycott of this evil entity would lead to our recovery fast.
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Yes and the zionist have bankrupted amerika already
with only the rich harvesting
phony $$$ from their war crimes.
Turkey would be smart to stay away from the ‘beast’
and support an honest nation like Iran.
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I am speaking from the comfort of my home, so it is easy to say the following; If the Financial Time Report is accurate, Turkey should take the same stand Iran has taken and NOT pay attention to what the White House is saying.
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Obama represents the world’s bullies
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An ultimatum? LOL, if I were the Turkish Prime Minister, I would laugh in his face, dismiss him as the obvious pawn that he is, and go buy my weapons from Russia or China. This uncle tom has no leeway to be giving “ultimatums”
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Luath…I have a feeling that Erodgan will do what you just suggested Laugh in Obama’s face and walk a way. Ans should go somewhere else to purchase any needed weapons, espceially at this time of bad economy. With the Global economy at it’s wrose, USA is in need for Turkey’s business. In fact, everyuthing is on sale.. buy one get the second half off.
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I don’t suspect they’ll by drones from Israel.
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Most likely will be coming from Israel, yes.
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https://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/hezbollah-ruins-israeli-drone-contract/
Hezbollah ruins Israeli drone contract
snip:
Experts believe Hezbollah’s interception of the intelligence collected by the drones will affect the willingness of other countries such as Brazil, India and Turkey to purchase the spy aircraft.
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Thanks Kim! On behalf of all oprressed people everwhere, I wish them more “ruining” of all Israeli contracts.
LOL
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Despite the UN finding Israel quality of war crimes within international water, Obama is warning Turkey of its behaviour toward Israel?? America’s support for Israel is isolating both America and Israel internationally as bullies. The fact of the matter is that America is being manipulated by organisations such as AIPAC and unfortunately the majority of Americans have absolutely no clue about it. No congressional candidates gets into congress without AIPAC’s approval, I find this thought quite troubling. Turkey feels that they have been treated poorly by Europe and the US and with Turkey being in the location that it is, Turkey has turned in the only direction that they can, to the east, in order to facilitate business interests that inevitably helps their economy grow. Turkey is at a pivotal point and has recently begun for the first time to practice war games with China, and I think that this should been seen as through Turkey doesn’t really need the United States or the EU, if the United States continues to try and bully Turkey, and if America is going to make unreasonable demands of Turkey, then they could find turkey Turning further towards China and Russia. But that is not to say that Turkey does not value its friendship with the United States, on the contrary. Turkey respects the United States and its friendship considerably more than Turkey respects the EU. America should remember that Turkey can by arms and support elsewhere, and one needs to ask, if Turkey starts buying weapons from countries like China and Russia, who is the country will really lose out? Turkey is one of the partners in the JSF program. If turkey pulled out of that, the US arms industry will certainly feel it.
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