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Historiska ironier – USA och Turkiet

Det är inte utan att man kan uppskatta ironin

i att Turkiet nu vill göra det USA gjorde mot Irak och Afghanistan. D.v.s ensidigt slå till mot terrorister i ett annat land. Frågan

ställer också USA mitt emellan 2 allierade. Khurdistan och Turkiet. Där misstänker jag att NATO medlemmen Turkiet kommer att väga

tyngre.

Vad många tycks ha missat
i den amerikanska kongressen är också att det var det ottomanska imperiet som

massakrerade armenier. Dagens turkiska stat har lika mycket att göra med det ottomanska imperiet som Tyskland har med det gamla tyska

kejsardömet. Varför inte om de nu delar ut moraliska fördömanden ta med t ex Spanien för vad som hände under kolonisationen av

Latinamerika eller Japan för vad det landet gjorde i Kina. För att inte tala om den Palestinska Nabkan 1948.

Att sedan

Turkiet har USA i känsligt grepp tycka många amerikanska politiker missat. Förutom Kuwait är den andra vägen som amerikanska

styrkor försörjs är via flygvägen från Incirlik.

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U.S.

Urges Turkish Restraint On Kurds – washingtonpost.com

But even as the U.S. official appealed for restraint, Turkish

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan,

speaking at a political rally in Istanbul
on

Saturday, urged the parliament to vote unanimously next week to
”declare a mobilization” against Kurdish rebels and their

”terrorist
organization,” the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

Fears of a new frontier of instability in the troubled

href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Middle+East?tid=informline">Middle East sent oil prices soaring Friday to a

record high of $84 a barrel. U.S.

military
officials predicted disastrous consequences if Turkey carries out a
threat to strike northern Iraq, and they warned

of serious
repercussions for the safety of American troops if Turkey reduces
supply lines in response to a congressional vote last

week on the
killing of Armenians nine decades ago.

The confluence of two seemingly unrelated events could not have come
at

a worse time. Thirteen soldiers killed last weekend in Turkey in the
most deadly attack by Kurdish separatists in more than a decade

had
barely been buried when the House Foreign Affairs Committee in
Washington approved a resolution labeling as genocide the mass

killings
of Armenians during the final decades of the Ottoman Empire. Turkey
does not deny the deaths but argues that they

occurred as part of a war
in which Turks were also killed.

”This is not only about a resolution,” said Egemen Bagis, a

member
of the Turkish parliament and a foreign policy adviser to Erdogan.
”We’re fed up with the PKK — it is a clear and present

danger for us.
This insult over the genocide claims is the last straw.”

Domestic politics in both countries — the Armenian

lobby that pushed for the genocide resolution in the U.S. Congress and growing pressure on the Turkish president to stop Kurdish rebel attacks — collided to create an

international crisis.

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