Who in Turkey Knows the Value of the Now-Dead Alliance with Israel? The Foreign and Defense Ministries

Barry Rubin
The Rubin Report
21 June '10

Kurdish terrorists attacking Turkey? The military uses drones made in Israel to defend the country.

As part of its demagogic assault on Israel, the Islamist regime has now claimed that Israel is fomenting a coup within Turkey. I can state for a fact that this isn’t true. There will be no coup for several reasons: the armed forces are intimidated by verbal attacks and arrests, its leaders don’t want to set off a civil war, and they know that no Western government—and especially the United States—wouldn’t support them.

What’s really happening is a coup against the armed forces through lies, arrests, and political pressure by the Islamist regime. But that doesn’t mean the generals and soldiers are happy with the destruction of the republic created by Kemal Ataturk and of Turkish democracy in general.


(CWillCain — June 16, 2010 — Andy McCarthy, author of The Grand Jihad, says Turkey has become an Islamist state. He describes how Ataturk engineered Turkey to be a secular Islamic state. And he describes how the promise of EU membership and the democratic process have allowed the Islamists to takeover Turkey. Andy also says that the US-Turkey alliance is coming to an end. While not necessarily in agreement with Barry Rubin on every point, this interview certainly helps with providing a picture of where things are going. Y.)


Another discontented institution the regime wants to crush is the Foreign Ministry. Now several retired ambassadors have publicly complained about how demagogue-in-chief Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is pursuing against them. They watch in sadness as the Islamist regime throws away decades’-old connections with the West in pursuit of his effort to be Iran’s number-one ally.

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