[PEN-L:28296] Sabri on Iraq/Turkey

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob wrote:

> Kuwait is not being helpful, and I believe Jordan has
> more or less publicly said no as of yesterday.  I
> suppose Dubya has Ankara at his mercy, but there's a very
> long election campaign afoot there, and I'd be surprised
> if any party, no matter how desperate, would go along unless
> at least a couple of other significant governments in the
> Muslem world are up for it. And who'd that be?  In short,
> this Iraq thingy may just not be doable.

G'Day from Ankara Rob,

>From here, there Iraq thingy looks quite doable. I don't mean to
say it will certainly be done but from here it looks so
nonetheless.
>From cab drivers to barbers to waiters to engineers to poets to
columnists, people in Turkey look at the Iraq operation a sure
thing. And
the current turmoil in Turkey is viewed by the "man on the
street" as part of the US "conspiracy" to screw the world so that
the US can
maintain and strengthen its hegemony, although they don't state
it quite that way. Even Tansu Ciller, a former prime minister and
the
president of the conservative True Path Party, who is viewed by
many as part of the ongoing conspiracy, publicly stated that she
want to
be the prime minister during the Iraq Operation of the US.

By the way, nobody would take any anti-conspiracy theorist, be
that Chip Berlet or Michael Pugliese, seriously here. Jewish
conspiracies, American conspiracies so forth are an ordinary part
of daily conversations in Turkey. The dislike of the US is
growing fast
and unfortunatelly innocent Americans who have nothing to do with
what their government is doing to the rest of the world are no
better
liked than their government.

I am writing this from an internet cafe and I need to leave soon.
So let me finish with this:

>From here Jordan appears to be playing a double game. It is
believed that Jordan may yield to the US and let the US use its
soil to
attack Iraq. Speculation has it that Prince Hasan's attendance to
the Iraq opposition meeting in the UK was approved by King
Abdullah
of Jordan as part of the double play I mentioned above. The same
goes for Turkey. Dervis is in the US in these days and the "man
on
the street" here believes that he went there to receive orders
before this ongoing "civilian coup" to tame anti-Iraq forces in
Turkey comes
to a conclusion. As with all games, the end result of this game
is also uncertain but I wouldn't write off the possibility of the
Iraq thingy
so quickly.

See you all when I am back in mid-August,

Best,
Sabri



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Michael Perelman
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