by bell_moscow
translated by Vox Populi Evo
Investigation by journalists of German newspaper “Contra Magazin” give some food for thought. The title of the article “Relations between Russia and Turkey: Is Ankara playing a double game?” is quite transparent.
Another investigation sheds light on connections between Turkish establishment with “Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People”, organization with extremist leanings. Despite that chilly period in Russo-Turkish relations has seemingly come to an end, support by Turkey of this (among others) extremist organization continues.
Journalists of “Contra Magazin” state that members of this exact organization “were the main driving force during blockade of Crimea in November of 2015, when power transmission lines delivering electricity to Crimea were blown up. Dzhemilev and his Bashi-bazouk have also taken part in terrorist acts and were also supported by Ankara for this long. Last year, the transatlantic relations of the Crimean Tatars, which also had cross-connections with Germany, became known.”
As proof, journalists provide documents, which confirm that “Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People” was financed by Turkish establishment. Some of the documents have already been translated to Russian, some are still in the process.
#Crimea blockade organizer Islyamov with right-wing Grey Wolves #Turkey
Crimean blockade organizer launches guerrilla ‘Tatar battalion’ with ‘Turkish help’
Besides all this, one has to ponder about the trajectory of strategic Russo-Turkish relations. We all remember how many times have Erdogan said, “My dear fried Vladimir” during his visits to Moscow. Besides the reputation of R. Erdogan, the relations with Europe, which are also not in the best shape, are also at the stake.
Contra Magazin: “Now we have to ask ourselves a question. How far is Erdogan willing to go to improve his relations with Moscow, given Ankara’s support of these forces? Today, relations with the West have reached the lowest point in history, and not a day goes by without Western mass media heavily criticizing Erdogan and his course of action. This was not the case before relations with Moscow were soured. Even though human rights abuses and restrictions on the freedom of the press have been criticized on multiple occasions, support of Crimean Tatars and “Grey Wolves” were not really a problem in the eyes of Western media, and continue to be ignored to this day”.
Can one expect some reaction from Moscow and hope that Russian media will pick up on the documents provided by German journalists?
Turkish perfidy continues on yet another front: Sheik Imran, admittedly not a political commentator but an eschatologist, predicts an attack by Israel on Syria with the connivance and cover of Turkey. We know what forces stand behind both Israel and Turkey.
http://russia-insider.com/en/us-turkey-deploy-special-forces-syria-anti-terror-operation-wink-wink/ri18121
Erdogan:
http://www.stankovuniversallaw.com/gnostische-tradition-der-abendlandischen-philosophie/
Saudi royal family :
http://themillenniumreport.com/2015/12/is-the-saudi-royal-family-jewish/
Judge the tree by its fruit.
Wrong link. Sorry.
Erdogan (and all “Young Turks” descendants) :
http://henrymakow.com/2015/11/modern-turkey-a-secret-zionist.html
This puts a “new light” on what I (and the Duran) talked about earlier. Erdogan is “playing” both sides against the middle.Taking what either side offers him. But not loyal to the spirit of his “reconciliation” with Russia . He can’t be trusted at all. He will work “quietly” against Russia (in Syria and Ukraine).While at the same time praising his relationship with his “good friend Vladimir”,as he inserts the knife deeper. Russia,and Syria and Iran,trust Turkey at their own peril. Turkey is not their friend,and they need to clearly realize that.
Russia does trust Erdogan who is a poor ruler for Turkey.
He has taken turkey to the point where the state is threatened.
Turkey economy will decide whether he survives in the long run
////I meant to write Russia does not trust turkey
ps see bombing in turkey on Saturday more signs of instability
Turkey is neglecting its home security for outside dreams of Ottoman Empire.
Soon he will have to choose his priority
Further proof is the relatively few numbers of migrants returned back to Turkey despite the huge eu expenditure used to surrender to his blackmail re migrants going to eu….I think I read couple weeks ago that relations particularly were terse re the airbase in East Turkey, and presumably Merkel’s gonna fail election stunt to ban the full face veil is not going to go down to well either.
I would suggest anyone who thinks Russia is as a naive school girl unable to see beyond it’s nose and thus believes all of Erdy’s lies and duplicitous actions – clear and obvious to those us sitting thousands of miles away in armchairs of course – go look at the videos of the last meeting between Putin and Erdogan.
If ever anyone can conceal their feelings when they want to its President Putin. But not that time. His hatred of what he was having to do was written large. And he hated it because he knows exactly – better than anyone; he’s the one who lost two good servicemen to this bastard – what Erdy is.
Hi there.
Repeat. But? He is not in the same league as Putin. Strategically, he is playing his cards as best he can, based on Geographic facts, the very large army and air-force of Turkey, and the vast Military industry of Turkey.
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Erdogan_Flag_Faces_of_Evil_resize01.jpg
Oh, and by the way, I do despise this individual.
Take Care
Kent
Erdogan, if lucky, controls about 51% of all Turkish decision making processes. CIA, Mossad, the Gulan faction, MI6 and untold other unsavory groupings have a field day in Turkey’s vast hinterlands.
The shoot down of the Russian Mig last year, for example, was not Erdogan’s doing, but a CIA op. Russian intelligence, fortunately, is smart enough to filter noise from signal.
Erdogan is of course unreliable but he is not on such a position of strength as to seriously threaten Russia. He is aware that he can anytime be backstabbed by his NATO “friends”. If he in order to please them intends another dirty joke (an attack on Crimea for example) the consequences would be catastrophic for him (and Turkey for thtat matter) and he is aware of that.
As long as there are NATO bases in Turkey, Erdogan cannot be trusted. Not that I like Erdogan personally (in his case, the cliche “brutal dictator” certainly does apply – greedy, corrupt, delusional, megalomaniac), but there can be no doubt that he is being blackmailed by NATO, even if it is true that the coup against him was genuine and that he genuinely fought back. Even with this scenario, it stands to reason that the continuing presence of NATO bases in Turkey either suggests that Erdogan is a hypocrite or that he perhaps does have some good intentions, but his hands are tied. Another factor to take into account is financial blackmail. The Turkish lira is very weak, and from what I understand, very reliant on the dollar. As always, the West wages war on multiple fronts at the same time: 1) militarily *and* 2) financially – the two go hand in hand. I wouldn’t be surprised if the US Treasury hasn’t threatened Turkey with Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction, as I suspect they threatened Germany with sinking Deutsche Bank, and thus the whole economy of the EU, if Merkel didn’t keep acting as a loyal servant of AngloZionist interests. Not to exculpate Erdogan (again, I personally loathe the man), but pressure from the West is probably superlative.
That being said, Erdogan at some point will either have to confront NATO’s wrath is Russia’s wrath. When it happens, the backlash will probably be sudden and massive.
The topic of Turkey-Russia relationships has been discussed during the so called apology and subsequent reconciliation. I will repeat once again – Turkey with or without Edogan plays and will play multiple games to its own goals, which is the Ottoman empire as per Erdogan and his supporters or the Great Turan as per his adversaries. For the world this are the two sides of the same coin.
As per Moscow response, there wil be none or if any only at the level of Zakharova’s tweeter. They are busy selling the national resources – 19% of Rossneft has been sold to Qatar and Glencore for only 10 bln. Ten billIons! There are estimations that this part’s cost is between 150 000 000 and 200 000 000. According to Russian constitution national natural resources belong to all Russians. Wasn’t that the deal that Uliukaev tryed to prevent when he got caught with the ink on his hands in the Rossneft headquarters? Should learn not to shake hands in the future. I think he was a lousy minister, but I do not think he requested bribe from Igor Sechin.
Meanwhile ISIS almost or maybe already took Palmira.
Sorry for the bitterness.
R
Rosneft and Senior Personal is under US sanctions. The Russian State still have the controlling stake. It seems to be a strategic sell.
What Russia have been through and able to is a miracle. Some backlash is natural and should not depress people. Nobody is perfect in this situation.
What is the strategy in selling national natural resources to someone like Qatar?
R
John Helmer thinks, that the real buyer is Russia and the Glencore-Qatar consortium is just a front face doing it for 3% margin…
http://johnhelmer.net/?p=16945
This is hardly news to Russian intelligence.
The ‘Tatar card’ has been played in a number of ways ever since the repatriation of Crimea: the Tatar ‘self-determination’ conference held in Ankara two years ago ( by individuals known to Russian intelligence as agent provocateurs), the Grey Wolves terror group ( involved in the execution of the Russian pilot after the plane was shot down at Davutoglu’s order, and NATO AWACS, ) and the ‘soft power’ of the Tatar Eurovision to mention just a few.
The real question is – who benefits by playing it?
Why is this German group publishing this ‘news’ now? It’s not new.
I also wonder what exactly they mean by ‘Ankara’.
Who funds this magazine?
And how does this ‘news’ impact on Turk-stream?