Turkish Press: US has Greece as a pawn – What can we gain from NATO veto

Turkey’s “legal right” to veto and negotiate with Finland and Sweden is reflected in the Turkish press, of course, focusing on the potential benefits to the PKK and Turkey’s “important role” for the region and the eastern end of the NATO alliance.

With the initial reference to the fact that Turkey was “a counterweight to the Western bloc, under the umbrella of NATO, against the Soviet threat, during the Cold War” and the accusation that the US strategy creates problems in the wider region of Turkey, the columnist Haberturk tries to justify Turkey’s practice and the “balance it wants to create”. “The United States has upset the balance of power in both the Islamic world and the nearby geography of Turkey with its operations in Afghanistan and then in Iraq. The terrorist organization, which was shaken after the so-called PKK leader was brought to Turkey, “It seems to be an active threat with global and regional support,” reads the statement. “Turkey’s strategic importance has increased more than ever. Secondly, this situation affects not only the internal dynamics of our country, but also its preferences on a regional and global scale.” The key players in the Western alliance do not intend to step behind the enlargement step and the new members are stated in the article. “And as if that were not enough, the images that the US publishes hand in hand with Greece, praising the Greek heritage and the American troop deployments in the country give a clear picture of the intentions,” adds columnist Nasuhi Gungor.

“Increased fear in Sweden and Finland has facilitated the work of the anti-Russian front, which America and Britain wanted to shape and control before the European Union,” wrote Kenny Alpay of Yeni Akit. It is revealed that Turkey is at least slowing down this process with its veto and wants to bring it to the negotiating table under conditions that may be considered heavy for its interlocutors. Although objections have been raised against Sweden and Finland and some demands have been made, it is clear that the main recipients are mainly the United States, NATO and European Union countries, both individually and institutionally. “Turkey expresses its determination not to repeat the mistake it made before for Greece’s return to NATO,” he said. “If Turkey wants to, it can turn this process into a crisis. But, of course, a strategy of controlled intensity is being pursued, as the cost of the crisis that will arise will have serious consequences for Turkey as well.” He added: “We must not forget that Turkey’s veto card is of such a nature that it allows it to gain some significant but limited opportunities. At this point, we can say that it is more reasonable and beneficial to push the demands to break the immediate or an indirect embargo created by the United States, NATO and the European Union against Turkey, for example, Turkey’s insistence on strengthening the F-16 fleet with both new markets and modernization kits should be a priority, as and Turkey’s return to the F-35 project. ” The author’s interest comes to an end: “It should not be overlooked that if the tension with the US and the EU is reduced, it will serve a process that will strengthen Russia’s hegemony and if the tension in relations with Russia is reduced. “US and EU hegemony will be strengthened. The right of veto will not be a colorless and passive trump card, but it will show our interlocutors the reality of a Turkey that will insist to the end on its active and just demands.”

“The strategy pursued by the forces controlled by world capital with the aim of building a monophonic world order centered on the United States has surrounded Russia in four directions. There is no country that can not be sacrificed for this purpose, including Ukraine. “, writes Haber7 in an article. “After Ukraine, Finland and Sweden, the northern European countries are also aware of the danger. The efforts of both countries to rush into NATO, with their skirts on fire, for fear that the fire of war after Ukraine “. As the author Arif Altunbas adds, “America, which can no longer use Turkey as a pawn, has begun to use Greece as a pawn to control our straits and Turkey as part of its global strategy. All Aegean islands turned into a US military base under the guise of Russian expansion, targeting Russia, Turkey under siege by NATO under US leadership. the world system and built a thick wall of hatred between it and Europe, rebuilding an iron curtain.According to this goal, West Georgia, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and the Baltic states and Russia, which challenged the Nordic countries, will be completely excluded from the West. of the Baltic Sea and Russian hegemony in the Black Sea basin will break and supremacy will be under NATO control under US leadership. As NATO revives, Turkey will be carefully excluded from the equation. “The military, political and economic alliance that Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and the United States will form in the Pacific will encircle Russia from the east and try to control the Chinese.” monster and try to subjugate it to the world system “, it is added, to emphasize by the columnist that Turkey must remain a military, political and economic power to avoid all this.

Mehmet Seker of fanatical nationalist Yeni φάafak “remembers” Kenan Evren, who “signed to return Greece to NATO. Pope does not always eat rice [κατά το “μια του κλέφτη δυο του ψεύτη]. We thought Kenan Evren was the most incompetent, naive, ignorant president this country has ever seen. It turned out that things could have been worse. At least he seized power first and then started selling. The worst try to sell before they come to power. Even if Sweden and Finland fulfill our wishes after this period, it is not enough. His brothers, the USA, are our main interlocutors. First, let them stop being aggressive and give us the F35 we paid for. “Remove us from the regime of the hostile country”, he writes and adds “Then we will think about it”.

Petros Kranias