Turkey wants to get part of the "American heritage in the Middle East"
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister again criticized Damascus for using force in an internal conflict. Experts, commenting on this statement, the radio station "Voice of Russia" said that in the Middle East, "begins the division of the American inheritance."On the part of Ankara in recent days, it is increasingly reproaching its recent "privileged friends and partners in Damascus." This happens at a time when Western countries in general and the North Atlantic Alliance in particular seem to be losing interest in the crisis in Syria.
The head of the Turkish Cabinet of Ministers in a message to the participants of the UN Forum "Alliance of Civilizations" gathered in Doha did not name specific states. However, Erdogan’s words that “dictatorships in the Middle East are committing massacres and opening fire on their own people” are quite clearly deciphered.
In fact, recently, in many places in this region, protests have been suppressed by force and shots are heard. And there are plenty of regimes that cannot be called democratic. However, the head of the Turkish Cabinet of Ministers was referring to Syria.
Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkish Foreign Minister, expressed more clearly, but at the same time threateningly. According to his statement, Ankara cannot be an outside observer during the bloodshed in the neighboring state. What did they mean? How far is Ankara ready to go?
"If Turkey claims that it cannot stand aside, it means that it is going to intervene. However, this intervention will be disguised with the help of various humanitarian actions. In fact, at present, the division of the American inheritance in the Middle East has actually begun. United States in the Middle East are losing their control. Also, the failure of their military machine is obvious. In this regard, there are those who want to replace the Americans. Among them, Turkey and Saudi Arabia ", - said Konstantin S Ivkov, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Geopolitical Problems.
Most experts have repeatedly pointed out that the intensification of the Syrian crisis may lead to destabilization throughout the region. And if Ankara believes that these processes will bypass them, this is very presumptuous. Since the Kurdish problem will come to the fore among others. However, Konstantin Sivkova believes that Erdogan is willing to take risks, since the stakes are too high.
However, some observers claim that Ankara is just a pawn in this game. Dr. Abbas Kunfud, an expert at the Center for Strategic Studies on this issue, says: “Of course, Turkey will not remain apart from the conflict in Syria. This is due at least to the fact that from the very beginning of the confrontation, the irreconcilable Syrian opposition rests precisely on Ankara. This is manifested in the fact that most of the leaders of the Syrian National Council are in Turkey. In addition, various conferences are held in its territory in which the rebels take part.
Turkey has already begun to work on overthrowing the regime in Syria. This also includes economic measures imposed by Ankara against Damascus. However, this is not so much a private initiative, as a general course of Western countries and NATO, of which Turkey is a member. In fact, the leadership of the Republic is now between two fires. On the one hand, it is necessary to observe the nat. interests On the other hand, Ankara needs to take into account the opinion of NATO partners. ”
The partners in the North Atlantic Alliance realized that the regime of Bashar Assad was much stronger than his critics assumed were beginning to “play the situation back” gradually. West to the front line of the opposition exposes those who only recently obediently followed him in the attack. Most likely, those still have not fully realized their current position.
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