"Turkey's Self-Emasculation
12/14/2004
By Antero Leitzinger
Under the new Islamist government, Turkey's foreign policy has been a complete disaster, unrivalled in the country's long and proud history. Few other countries in the world have ever managed to depart from their traditional foreign policies so rapidly while voluntarily missing so obvious chances for achieving great victories. Instead of participating in the liberation of Iraq, to which Turkey was invited by the USA, its closest ally, Turkey prostrated to France - to the very same country that just recently condemned Turkey for the Armenian genocide, and opposed NATO guarantees for Turkey's security. Instead of having the Turkish Army parading in Kirkuk as the protector of Iraqi Turks and Kurds, Turkey not only choose to side with the Arab Socialist Baath Party dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, but even went on expressing publicly concerns on Kirkuk's security on April 10th, the very day its inhabitants were celebrating their liberation by Kurdish freedom-fighters."
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