Turkey: The Honduras of the Middle East for a New Contra War
by Eren Buğlalılar
We all know it from the movies of Costa-Gavras: once "the leaders of the free world" start visiting your country frequently, carnage won't be far behind.
Nowadays, the capital city of Turkey, Ankara, looks very much like the set of a Costa-Gavras movie (except, of course, what we really want to see happens off-camera). First, James Cartwright, then Vice Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, came to Turkey on the 16th of May 2011, when the imperialists were preparing to invade Libya. He visited the NATO base in İzmir which would become the general headquarters directing the massacres of Libyan people. Then, in July 2011, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and CIA Director David Petraeus showed up in Ankara. They were followed by US Vice President Joe Biden and US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta, who paid us a visit in December 2011.
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