WASHINGTON — The United States is warning Turkey that it is alienating U.S. supporters and needs to demonstrate its commitment to partnership with the West.
The remarks by Philip Gordon, the Obama administration's top diplomat on European affairs, were a rare admonishment of a crucial NATO ally.
"We think Turkey remains committed to NATO, Europe and the United States, but that needs to be demonstrated," Gordon told The Associated Press in an interview this week. "There are people asking questions about it in a way that is new, and that in itself is a bad thing that makes it harder for the United States to support some of the things that Turkey would like to see us support."
Gordon cited Turkey's vote against a U.S.-backed United Nations Security Council resolution on new sanctions against Iran and noted Turkish rhetoric after Israel's deadly assault on a Gaza-bound flotilla last month. The Security Council vote came shortly after Turkey and Brazil, to Washington's annoyance, had brokered a nuclear fuel-swap deal with Iran as an effort to delay or avoid new sanctions.
>>>Even an iota of independence is not tolerated by NATO organization. It is a ofrce to protect Israel
among other missions and such democratic organization, so were are led to believe, does not allow any
independent action by its members. This is yet another Wesern "international" organization to slave nations
when they sign up.
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If Turkey is unhappy with NATO...
by AMIR1973 on Sat Jun 26, 2010 12:50 PM PDTIt should leave its alliance with the U.S., Canada, U.K., France, England, Germany, Italy, etc. and start an alliance with Syria, IRI, Sudan, Hezbollah, and Hamas. Working together, these states and organizations can form a union of prosperous democracies with high standards of living and many freedoms. However, I think the Turks are way too smart to leave an alliance of the world's richest and most advanced countries to join the world's least productive and most backward regimes. Don't you think?
IMF,
by Mola Nasredeen on Sat Jun 26, 2010 10:00 AM PDT"Times are a changing" and it's about time.
Turkey Islamist
by cyclicforward on Sat Jun 26, 2010 09:04 AM PDTBrought this for Turkey. Everywhere Islamist hang around, for sure there will be trouble and now is Turkey.