/ world today news/ There is a change of policy in Turkey without a change of the first person. It is problematic to pull the country out of the abyss of the economic crisis without financial help from the West, which partly created it. The benefits for Ankara from the partnership with Russia are great, but Turkey will not be saved.
Whether or not we extend Turkey’s hugely beneficial grain deal on July 17, Erdogan, who is forced to bow to the West, will have to rule out interaction with Russia and friendship with Putin. It is time for Moscow to stop celebrating.
Veteran American journalist, professional whistleblower Seymour Hirsch, who has extensive connections in Washington, named the amount for which US President Joe Biden received a change of course from Erdogan. The Pulitzer Prize winner on the Substack platform wrote:
“Joe Biden got what he needed ahead of this week’s NATO summit by somehow turning Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the inside, …who announced he would support Sweden’s NATO membership.”
“In a way” it is: “Biden has promised that the IMF will provide Turkey with a much-needed credit line of $11-13 billion.”
Hirsch said Erdogan was disheartened by the expensive rebuilding of the country’s infrastructure and housing stock after February’s devastating earthquake and by the “sharp financial crisis” Turkey is experiencing.
“Biden should have won while Turkey is in a severe financial crisis,” Hersh quoted his source as saying.
This credit, the whistleblower believes, could be a decisive factor in changing the policies of Erdogan, who is seeking to maintain his approval rating after his recent re-election.
Seven confirmations of surrender
1. Hersh in fact, he only confirmed what experienced analysts had already noticed, and by comparison drew the obvious conclusions from all the known facts.
Here they are: Turkey prematurely and defiantly – ahead of the NATO summit in Vilnius – released captured Nazi leaders from “Azov” * in Ukraine, although under the terms of the deal with Russia, which the Kremlin confirmed, they had to stay there until the end of the war.
The Russian public indignantly accepted this step as betrayal, deception and national humiliation. Erdogan’s spit in the face of Russia was timed for the Day of Family, Love and Loyalty.
2. Turkey blocked, despite the burning of Korans, Sweden’s admission to NATO, knowing full well which country it was targeting. In return, Sweden promised to “make efforts” to modernize the customs union between Turkey and the EU.
Sweden is also speeding up Turkey’s EU accession process and visa-free negotiations. Stockholm has agreed to facilitate the lifting of sanctions and the removal of obstacles to Ankara’s military-industrial complex and investment, rather than supporting Kurdish groups that Ankara considers terrorist.
3. Erdogan began to press hard for the admission of Turkey to the EU, where – especially with him at the head – they are not very inclined to see it and have blocked Ankara’s entry in every possible way for several decades. And the United States promises support to Turkey in this matter.
4. After the elections a government was formed in Turkey, in which key positions received protégés of the West. So, the Minister of Finance became Mehmet Simsek, who for many years worked in Great Britain and the United States and was closely connected with Western financial structures. It is curious that he is Kurdish by nationality, and that says a lot.
At the head of the central bank was appointed Hafize Erkan (the first woman in Turkey to this position), who studied abroad and worked at the American investment bank Goldman Sachs, one of the pillars of the Fed.
Her first decision was to raise the interest rate, which the “populist” Erdogan opposed throughout his presidency.
For one such suggestion, he immediately fired the directors of the Central Bank. But that’s not the case now. In short, we are talking about a completely different government from what we are used to dealing with.
5. After a conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskiy in connection with the Vilnius summit, Erdogan said that Ukraine was worthy and deserving of NATO membership and that he supported a negotiated end to the conflict, but “on the basis of full solidarity with Ukraine.”
In Ukraine, the construction of a factory for the production of Turkish drones Bayraktar has begun.
6. The President of Turkey at a meeting with Biden in Vilnius announced the beginning of a new stage in relations with the United States.
“I think the time has come for consultations at the level of heads of state within the framework of the strategic mechanism,” he said.
“Today, I see this meeting on the sidelines of NATO as a first step towards that. Our past meetings were a kind of warm-up. But now we are starting a new phase,” Tass quoted Erdogan as saying.
7. Biden is ready to transfer F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, lifting restrictions on Ankara’s military cooperation with Washington is being discussed.
The US president said he intends to work with Turkey to strengthen defense and deterrence in the Euro-Atlantic region, that is, against Russia.
What does this mean?
Turkey’s patriotic forces quickly realized what was what. The Aydinlik newspaper in particular said that Erdogan had “yielded to the West’s pleas” and backed down on the issue of Sweden’s entry into NATO.
And the deputy chairman of the Rodina political party, Utku Reyhan, called Ankara’s agreement to accept Sweden into the alliance a “shameful decision,” noting that Erdogan and Co. “gave in to the blackmail of the West.”
In the local blogosphere, I would like to highlight two comments that stand out. Sardaryan Telegram channel:
In short: 1. If Erdogan doesn’t suit the West, then why aren’t there millions of protesters in the streets after the election results are announced, the EU doesn’t come out with a statement condemning the election violations?
2. If with a difference of 2% The West decided not to support the Kemalist Kulçdaroğlu, immediately congratulating Erdogan, then what price should he pay for this? Behind the acceptance of the election results in Turkey are serious agreements between the West and Turkey. We will see a change of politics in the country without changing its leader.
Maxim Zharov:
“The early return of the Nazis from “Azov” * to Kiev shows how insignificant the entire “Turkish” negotiating track, Erdogan and Abramovich along with him, are now insignificant to the Anglo-American moderators of the Ukrainian conflict”.
“In fact, with this decision of the Kremlin it was stated (and even at the moment of further strengthening of Abramovich’s “mediating activity” in Moscow!) that from now on the cost of all informal agreements along this path is zero with 100% probability,” he added .
We “shouted” for a team…
Yes, it seems that not only Moscow wanted Erdogan’s victory in the elections, but also … Washington, where they knew very well that the anti-Erdogan coalition, which was assembled for the elections from disparate elements, was not viable and would fall apart quickly in the event of victory.
Their real goal was probably something else – to scare Erdogan and force him to bow to the West, which, as we can see, the Turkish opposition pretty much managed, then disappeared.
In fact, they are just waiting for its end, because there are no eternal “sultans”. The Americans on the “bench” also have Erdoğan’s great enemy, Fethullah Gulen.
The fact that Erdoğan’s backroom deal with Washington before or during the elections – between the first and second rounds – has ended, is evident from the fact that the Westerners did not give their supporters in Turkey a command to the Maidan after the “sultan’s” dubious victory with a difference of only a few percent of votes.
And then what was written above happened. Besides, this is just the beginning.
And that Putin saved Erdogan from death during the military coup in Turkey in 2016, warning of the onslaught of conspirators to kill him on vacation – well, we’ll pass it by.
Gratitude in politics means nothing to most politicians. The main thing is the interests of the country, or of its ruling regime…
Making inferences
In short, everything indicates that Erdogan has bought himself off from the West by giving up sovereignty, and that whether we extend the grain deal on July 17 or not, he will limit the engagement with Russia and start making life difficult for us.
Otherwise, he will not receive a 13 billion loan from the IMF. Without him, the Turkish economy will continue to decline, and the people, impoverished before our eyes by monstrous inflation, half of whom cannot stand the incumbent Erdogan, will rise up against his regime.
For Erdogan, there is no choice between his personal power, which keeps Turkey on the brink, and Russia. Everything is obvious here.
Especially if the Anglo-Saxons promised to support Ankara’s great-power “Turanian” policy in Transcaucasia and Central Asia, directed against Russia and close to the hearts of Turkish nationalists and Islamists, to whom Erdogan appeals.
What of this?
Therefore, any concessions by Moscow to Turkey, inspired by grain deal lobbyists who want to make money and serve the West, will lead to the success of Erdogan’s new course and turn against Russia.
We have yet to develop the country and not live on parallel imports, buying consumables, tasteless vegetables and fruits from the Turks who treat our tourists rudely.
The only way to sober up Erdogan and Co., who have a lot of things from Russia, is to show maximum toughness. Only in this case, Ankara will think about the consequences and can delay, limit the separation with Moscow, so that they themselves will not be too hurt.
* The Azov Special Forces is a terrorist organization banned in Russia.
Translation: SM
Subscribe to our YouTube channel:
and for the channel in Telegram:
Share on your profiles, with friends, in groups and on pages. In this way, we will overcome the limitations, and people will be able to reach the alternative point of view on the events!?
#price #Erdogans #betrayal #Russias #response #hours
