"Turkey Wishes to Appear as EU Ally and European Diplomacy Weapon
06.09.2006 14:38 GMT+04:00
“Sending of Turkish peacekeepers to Lebanon is by no means a growth of Ankara’s imperial pretensions, though some forces in Armenia think so,” head of the department of international relations at the institute of political and military analysis Sergey Markedonov told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his words, Recep Tayyip Erdogan despite his “stormy Islamic youth” has staked on Turkey’s Europeanazation and its accession to the EU.
“However presently Europe demonstrates the whole world its fear to participate in the peacekeeping operation. In this situation Turks wish to appear as EU’s ally and even a weapon of European diplomacy. For Israel a move of the kind made by Turkey’s is quite admissible, since Turkey has been an ally to the Jewish state for many years,” he remarked. However the Russian political scientist considers that the Tel Aviv-Israel relations has considerably cooled over the situation in Iraq."
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