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ERDOGAN SEES TURKEY AS SUPER POWER IN MIDEAST: ANALYST
Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:7PM GMT
Turkey's president sees the country as a super power in the Middle East
facilitating the overthrow of the Syrian government, says an analyst.
"I think [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan sees Turkey as a regional super power
in which he uses the ISIS to overthrow the Bashar al-Assad government,"
James Petras, a Middle East expert from New York, told Press TV in
an interview Tuesday.
Turkey is an "aspiring hegemonic country" seeking to "establish its
version of Islamic dominance and to limit the influence of independent
governments like Syria, like Iran."
The government in Ankara also "wants to compete with Israel and the
United States as the dominant group, and this has created an enormous
series of conflicts."
Turkey along with the United States and others are accused of arming
and supporting the ISIL Takfiri militants operating inside Syria.
Ankara has prevented Turkish Kurds from crossing the border into
Syria to join the anti-ISIL battle for the strategic town of Kobani.
Britain's Sky News said in a recent report that it has obtained
documents showing that the Turkish government has stamped passports
of foreign militants seeking to cross the Turkish border into Syria
to join the ISIL Takfiri terrorists.
Passports from different countries were recovered in a village near
Kobani across the Turkish border.
The ISIL militants have been engaged in operations attempting to cut
off Kobani's access to the Turkish border.
Syrian Kurdish fighters have called on all Kurds across the region
to take up arms against the militants.
SC/HSN
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/10/21/383099/erdogan-sees-turkey-as-super-power/
Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:7PM GMT
Turkey's president sees the country as a super power in the Middle East
facilitating the overthrow of the Syrian government, says an analyst.
"I think [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan sees Turkey as a regional super power
in which he uses the ISIS to overthrow the Bashar al-Assad government,"
James Petras, a Middle East expert from New York, told Press TV in
an interview Tuesday.
Turkey is an "aspiring hegemonic country" seeking to "establish its
version of Islamic dominance and to limit the influence of independent
governments like Syria, like Iran."
The government in Ankara also "wants to compete with Israel and the
United States as the dominant group, and this has created an enormous
series of conflicts."
Turkey along with the United States and others are accused of arming
and supporting the ISIL Takfiri militants operating inside Syria.
Ankara has prevented Turkish Kurds from crossing the border into
Syria to join the anti-ISIL battle for the strategic town of Kobani.
Britain's Sky News said in a recent report that it has obtained
documents showing that the Turkish government has stamped passports
of foreign militants seeking to cross the Turkish border into Syria
to join the ISIL Takfiri terrorists.
Passports from different countries were recovered in a village near
Kobani across the Turkish border.
The ISIL militants have been engaged in operations attempting to cut
off Kobani's access to the Turkish border.
Syrian Kurdish fighters have called on all Kurds across the region
to take up arms against the militants.
SC/HSN
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/10/21/383099/erdogan-sees-turkey-as-super-power/