turkey is changing sides because of Bush politics
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Submitted by havas (Turkey), Jan 19, 2009 at 16:17

First of all, you must know that turkish people are extremely against american politics, because of ıraq invasion.this invasion can result the separation of turkey from kurds. turkish people are extremely provocated by the scenes of murdered ıraqis,raped ıraqis,murdered children. And now turkish people are again even more provocated by the murdered phalesteins. in his last month ,mr bush let another genocide crime in phalestine.they knew that obama wouldnt let this happen.

turkey wanted to enter eu and rejected and intimated by the europeans,especially by sarkozy,austrian and german leaders. and now turks dont even think about eu .

since turkey is out of eu, why should we give northern cyprus to eu. northern cyprus will be a part of turkey and turkish military base will be there for ever.

barrack obama is supposebly a hope for the world. but not for turkey-usa relationship. he will accept the armenian genocide lie in april. and turkey will shut off the base in incirlik and relationships will be terrible between america and turkey.

turkey is a bancrupt country. and mostly people who has the money and give loans are all jews in the world. also turkey has very deep and complicated economic and military relationship with israel. turkey is dependent on exports and imports from eu and turizm industry is mostly from eu.

ı personally very much want turkey not ally with west and turn her face to east. and since we have elections here, prime ministers talk like what we,people want him to talk. but in real politics , ı dont know how this can happen.

if tayyip erdoğan can guarantee to get arab funds to come into turkey, than maybe she can try to be the leading country of muslim middle east. and turn the face of turkey to east, which can satisfy 75% of turks at the minimum.but all arab leaders are sold people to western imperializm. they will obey their masters orders.

so, ı see no hope for turkey to shift sides. we are shouting, screaming and crying for our murdered brothers and sisters and children. but we are under the occupation of imperializm. until we can get our freedom back, ım afraid this harassments will go on like this.

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