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Turkey Predicts Alliance With Egypt as Regional Anchors
The New York Times ^
| 18 September 2011
| Anthony Shadid
Posted on 09/18/2011 7:44:29 PM PDT by buccaneer81
ANKARA, Turkey — A newly assertive Turkey offered on Sunday a vision of a starkly realigned Middle East, where the country’s former allies in Syria and Israel fall into deeper isolation, and a burgeoning alliance with Egypt underpins a new order in a region roiled by revolt and revolution.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alliance; ayersintifada; dncintifada; egypt; gaza; israel; obamaintifada; syria; turkey; turkishintifada
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The Arab Spring is moving along quite swimmingly to Obama's eye.
To: buccaneer81
Turkey Predicts Alliance With Egypt as Regional Anchors I wonder if it means war with Israel?
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posted on
09/18/2011 7:46:35 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(California, where English is a foreign language)
To: buccaneer81
“We’re putting the band back together.”
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posted on
09/18/2011 7:49:37 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
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posted on
09/18/2011 7:50:34 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
To: dfwgator
“We’re putting the band back together.”"We're on a mission from God."
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posted on
09/18/2011 7:53:19 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(ECOMCON)
To: buccaneer81
Ottoman Empire Redux. Hammers and anvils all around Israel.
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posted on
09/18/2011 7:54:30 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: buccaneer81
No wonder the IDF is activating reservists this weekend.....
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posted on
09/18/2011 7:54:40 PM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Obama got mostly Ds and Fs all through college and law school. Keep repeating it.....)
To: Mark17
I wonder if it means war with Israel? I have $10 that says Turkey and Russia cozy up in the near future.
Goodbye Incirlik...
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posted on
09/18/2011 7:55:33 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(ECOMCON)
To: buccaneer81
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posted on
09/18/2011 8:04:26 PM PDT
by
ken21
(ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
To: buccaneer81
Yeah, Egypt will be stable...right.
To: buccaneer81
yeah, but this time the Jews have Nukes and are not going to go into the ovens peacefully.
There is a reason I use this tag line.
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posted on
09/18/2011 9:37:50 PM PDT
by
ClayinVA
("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
To: Mark17
The countries that retreat together face defeat together.
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posted on
09/18/2011 10:33:13 PM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(End the occupation. Annex today.)
To: buccaneer81
“The Arab Spring is moving along quite swimmingly to Obama’s eye. “
It’s back to the future. The 50’s and 60’s to be exact. They’ll need to dig up Nasser and everything will be in place.
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posted on
09/18/2011 10:50:01 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(Time to move forward not to the center.)
To: headstamp 2
Is it just me, or does anyone else think the CIA dropped the ball (again) especially regarding Turkey?
What do we pay these people for?
To: ken21
The last caliphate was unified when the Turks defeated both Egypt and Persia. Who will head this new caliphate? Egypt, Persia, or Turkey? May the best men win.
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posted on
09/18/2011 11:19:46 PM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(End the occupation. Annex today.)
To: headstamp 2
Israel’s gonna have a “Turkey shoot”.
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posted on
09/18/2011 11:20:15 PM PDT
by
wolfman
To: headstamp 2
It’s back to the future. The 50’s and 60’s to be exact. They’ll need to dig up Nasser and everything will be in place.Don't expect the French in the Suez this time.
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To: headstamp 2
Nasser vas a secular, socialist nationalist. Turkey was ruled by a secular establishment and a secular military.
Today is looking very, very different, even though the situation in Egypt is still very fluid.
To: Eleutheria5
world war 1 ended turkey’s dominance.
but my suspicions about turkey were raised about 2004 when i picked up a copy of the sunday nyt magazine
to find ergodan and his wife on the cover.
his wife was wearing a headscarf, signalling a change in
“secular” turkey.
it used to be that the turkish military guaranteed secular continuity in turkey, but recently some of the generals have been jailed and forcibly retired.
i think turkey is surging. turkey has a modern economy. germany’s support of turkey is interesting.
egypt’s a loser. they have a small economy and the moslem brotherhood will eventually destroy the tourist economy.
persia’s danagerous. iran means aryan a la hitler’s influence.
the competition will be between “moderate” islam of turkey and the wild shia of iran.
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posted on
09/19/2011 8:05:10 AM PDT
by
ken21
(ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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