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Posted on 09/18/2022 4:19:46 PM PDT by FarCenter
Türkiye aims to become a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, noting that the group’s next meeting in India will be a venue to further discuss this issue.
“We are not a member of the Shanghai Five. The next process is a step toward the most advanced level of this work. This step, of course, will come to the agenda at a more advanced level in the talks in India, which will be the host of the upcoming period,” he told journalists on Sept. 17 on his plane from Uzbekistan to Türkiye.
Erdoğan reminded that the organization was once called Shanghai Five, but now it has nine members, along with three observer members and nine dialogue partners, including Türkiye.
“Almost all the leaders I met thanked us for the role we played in reducing tensions, especially in the Russia-Ukraine War. They said, ‘We really appreciate and congratulate you for your role here,’” he said.
The world powers have no intention to make efforts for the solution of the Ukrainian crisis, Erdoğan said and stressed that Türkiye has initiated this bid and kept a balanced policy between Ukraine and Russia.
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Turkey has been the boil on NATO’s butt since the mid 1970s. That boil has only grown since the 1990s.
You can see why they changed the name of the country.
The bird is named after the country.
Thank God Ben Franklin didn’t succeed in naming the Turkey as our national bird.
Second largest army in NATO behind the US needs to just go ahead and pull out of NATO.
Keep pushing Turkiye to the Russia and China sphere of influence though, yes, indeed.
Well played.
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You know NOTHING about Turkey. I was in Turkey from 1971 - 1973; I know the Turks.
Turkey, under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, tried to move toward a more Western, more secular society; however, there was always strong opposition to that from fundamentalists and those pining for the old Ottoman glory days. As a consequence, Turkey was always walking a tightrope.
When Turkey joined NATO it was on the Western side of that tightrope. However, beginning in the mid 1970s that side began to weaken, which resulted in Turkey falling under military rule in the early 1980s (which was an attempt to stop an anti-Western slide). By the 2000s, though, the slide was pretty much well under way.
You have to understand something about Turkey: It is fair-weather. It will play the West off against the East, and will try to strike deals or relationships that best benefit Turkey, even if it means burning bridges.
Know more than you think, Mr. I-went-to-Turkiye person.
1971-1973?
Yo, it’s not 1971 or 1973, its 2022 fast approaching 2023.
Let the EU and the US keep screwing with Turkiye and we going to see just how much your visit to Turkiye in 1971-1973 was and is worth.
“Let the EU and the US keep screwing with Turkiye and we going to see just how much your visit to Turkiye in 1971-1973 was and is worth.”
I wouldn’t call it a visit. I had no say in the matter. It was Uncle Sam’s idea.
So, Sparky, show me where my comment was wrong.
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