Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul is in India on a 6-day state visit. India is a staunch ally of the Zionist entity since the time of prime minister Indira Gandhi (killed in 1984) in the 1980s. India is world’s second largest consumers market (1.1 billion population), a regional nuclear power and home to the world’s largest Muslim minority (140 million). New Delhi was very upset when Turkey did not invite it at the NATO foreign ministers conference on Afghanistan held early this month in Istambul. Indian government had blamed Pakistan for pressing Ankara for that. India’s prime minister Manmohan Singh has complained to Abdullah Gul about that during their meeting in New Delhi.

Abdullah Gul became the first Turkish head of state to visit India since 1995. He was accompanied by a 180-member Turkish delegation which included his wife Hayrunnisa Gul, three cabinet ministers from Erdogan’s government, MPs, Mayors and leaders of Turkish business community. Gul is awarded an Honorary degree of Doctorate by the Amity University. In his acceptance address, Gul said: “We want to develop relationship with India across several fields like construction, energy, science & technology and education”. On Friday, Abdullah Gul is scheduled to fly from New Delhi to Bangladesh on a state visit.

Turkey under the leadership of its devout Muslim prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is swinging away from the Zionist-controlled West to the East. It’s good news for the Islamic resistance groups (Hamas, Hizb’Allah, Islamic Jihad, etc.) who are fighting ZioFascism in the Middle East. Since Erdogan came into power in March 2003 – he has been establishing friendly relations with Turkey’s old adverseries like Syria, Islamic Iran, Armenia, Russia, China and India. However, the violent unrest in Chinese-occupied Muslim-majority province of Xinjiang in July 2009 - has put ice on Ankara-Beijing warm relations in the past.

Ankara’s relations with its traditional allies, the US, France, Germany, NATO and the Zionist entity are strained to say the least. This basically is due to Erdogan’s independent foreign policy and Turkish majority’s concern for the Muslim Ummah which is being attacked by the western powers for the benefit of Israel under smoke-screen of “war on terrorism”. Though Turkey under Kemalist regime was the first Muslim-majority country to recognize the alien Jewish occupation of Palestine in 1948 – Erdogan became the first Turkish leader who has exposed the Zionazi nature of the Israeli leadership.

Islamic Iran has become Turkey’s second largest trading partner (US$10 billion in 2009) after the US. However, it’s expected that Tehran will surpass Washington as Turkey’s trading partner by 2020. During this period Turkey’s trade with Tehran is expected to rise to US$30 billion.

Cemal Ahmedoglu in an article titled Turkey begins to assert it Islamic identity (Crescent International, February 2o10) has dealt in deatail Turkey’s tilt away from the Zionist entity and its western blind supporters.

In the past several months, relations between Turkey and the Zionist entity have started to change dramatically. At the height of the Gaza war a year ago, Turkey’s support for Palestinian resistance was second only to Iran. Turkey’s support would not have been so surprising if it was not for the fact that it is the only Muslim member of NATO and the center of cultural and social secularization of Muslim society. Recent diplomatic quarrels between the Zionist entity and Turkey, which have gone on for about a year now, signal not just a change in policy but also a strategic turn by Turkey. This shift in the Turkish approach toward Israel will have far reaching implications for the Muslim world.

Since the imposition of Kemalist secularism as official dogma, the military has been the key instrument to prevent Islamic revival in Turkish society. During the cold war every political disagreement with the established authoritarian scheme in Turkey known as “democracy” was dealt with very harshly under the banner of fighting communism. After the Cold War the continuous mismanagement and corruption of the Western-backed political establishment created an urge in Turkish society to revive its Islamic roots in order to solve its problems.

Ergenekon, the principal clandestine institution that at-tempted to overthrow the present government, alarmed the elected government of Turkey untying its hands, making it more aware of the vast network of former officials. The Ergenekon case evol-ved from the discovery of a weapons cache in Trabzon in 2007 into what the Turks have branded “the case of the century”. The discovery of weapons led to uncovering the clandestine institution which was actively preparing to instigate chaos in Turkey and seize power in order to halt the Islamic revival.

The number of documents, weapons and testimonies acquired during the investigation led to the arrest and the ongoing trial of 86 influential people. The list of people on trial includes military generals, intelligence officers, journalists, former judges, businessmen and even a high ranking member in the Orthodox Church. The trial also uncovered the close ties between the Ergenekon group and the Israeli Mossad that has also contributed to undermining relations between the current Turkish government and Israel. The Ergenekon case provided a legitimate reason for the ruling AKP party to crack down on the secularist military establishment in Turkey. Exposure of the truly criminal nature of Ergenekon members, many of whom had ties to the military totally discredited the military establishment in Turkish society.

After the Ergenekon case the AKP realized that no matter how much they give in to the demands of Washington and Tel Aviv, they would never be accepted as equal partners simply because of their independent views on many key policy matters. Therefore, the groundwork for the Turkish and Israeli break was triggered by Israel’s meddling in the domestic affairs of Turkey. Those familiar with Turkish mindset know that the one thing no Turk will ever tolerate is external interference in their domestic policies. Therefore, Turkish-Israeli relations have been greatly damaged at a popular level. They are not likely to revert to the old style again.

The fact that the Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri spoke out against UN resolution 1559 during his January trip to Turkey, shows that Turkey is managing to bridge the gap between the anti- and pro-resistance factions in Lebanon. Turkey also has a common interest with Syria and Iraq in countering US-backed Kurdish separatists. Ever since the US occupied Iraq it has created a safe haven for Kurdish fringe groups in Iraq to create instability in Iran. This however also negatively affects Turkey since many PKK terrorists also operate from the US established safe havens.

Turkey’s reassertion of its independence from the US and Zionist domination will also bolster its position in the EU. Since most of the Turkish population in the EU is highly discriminated against and completely alienated, Ankara’s outreach to them will increase. Most Turks living in Europe are religious and many left Turkey because of Kemalism. A more Islamically-oriented Turkey will make them more attached to their homeland; this will serve as leverage against the EU’s discriminatory approach towards Turkey.

It is hard to tell exactly what form Turkey’s strategic policy shift will take. One thing, however, is clear: if its policy shift gets stuck in the neo-Ottoman mindset of mostly Turkish nationalism with a little bit of Islamic flavor, Turkey will fail to win the trust of the Arabs. If Turkey does not win their trust, its comeback as a regional player will be uncertain. If the anti-Islamic forces inside and outside Turkey manage to use the Islamic credentials of AKP for narrow nationalistic interests, Turkey will be no better than Saudi Arabia. If Turkey truly wants to gain its rightful position in the region it must not be afraid to break with Kemalist established taboos.

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