With Turkey’s EU membership up in the air and their growing disenchantment with US policies as they turn somewhat toward Iran we may be seeing a change in direction although it is too soon to tell.
As Turkey’s long time alliances turn bleak the scope of the SCO, if it should attain its promise, cannot have escaped Turkey’s attention.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev stated in his greeting speech on Tuesday, July 5, now one may say that the organization (SCO) represents half of the humankind.
Even talk of such a deal is something I would not have expected in our recent past. Turkey has always been an invaluable ‘Judas’ type ally of the U.S.
ANKARA [MENL] -- Turkey has been examining a range of offers of military and defense systems from Russia.
Officials said the offers include the sale of main battle tanks, attack helicopters, combat vehicles and a satellite for Turkey's military. They said that over the last year the Defense Ministry has been carefully reviewing the Russian proposals.
"Many things have changed over the last year, and the key change is that Russia and Turkey are no longer enemies and that Moscow is no longer an enemy of NATO," a Turkish official said.
Officials said Russia has offered Turkey a range of systems and technology withheld by the United States. They said that unlike Washington, Moscow has pledged to provide weapons technology and transfer production facilities to Turkey. \
Reference: TURKEY: REGIONAL AGENT FOR IMPERIALIST OPERATIONS Turkey was put center stage by this U.S. plan in two ways: First, Caspian oil would be passing through Turkish territory. Second, in the maneuvering to develop the Ceyhan pipeline, Turkey's government and military has been assigned the task of infiltrating and politically influencing Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan-- the "Newly Independent States" (NIS) that will be producing the oil.
Turkey was chosen for this because it is considered a "reliable ally" of the U.S. and Germany--it is firmly dominated by U.S. and German imperialism and overseen by a fascist military that operates within NATO. In addition, the majority population of Turkey is closely related--by language and culture--to the Turkic peoples of Central Asia, including the peoples of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.
For five years, the U.S. has pressured the Caspian regional governments to endorse the Baku-to-Ceyhan route and has pressured the international oil monopolies to finance it. Meanwhile, it has renewed its support for the Turkish government's military and political campaign to suppress the Kurdish people--whose lands in Turkey are designated as the route for the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline.
One of the main reasons that the U.S. attacked Serbia last year was to prevent Turkey from being drawn into the Balkan wars. When Yugoslavia first started to fall apart in the early 1990s, U.S. Secretary of State Baker said, "We don't have a dog in that fight"--meaning that there were no U.S. interests tied up in the fighting between Serbia and Croatia. But Turkey has close ties with Albania--and when the Balkan fighting spread southward into Kosovo, the U.S. got involved--to guarantee that Turkey would not get drawn into a larger war with its neighbors, Greece and Bulgaria. The U.S. wanted Turkey to focus on its assigned task: pacifying Turkish Kurdistan and infiltrating former Soviet Central Asia. [See "U.S. Predators Stalk the Balkans: The imperialist motives behind the NATO war on Yugoslavia," RW #1002, April 18, 1999, RW Online: rwor.org] #msg-3775550
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