"Opinion: Cold Turkey
By Vincent Farrell Jr.
6/3/2010 9:00 AM EDT
The Israeli-Turkish alliance so abruptly shattered in the past few days may have been born of military necessity, but it was still real. The Turkish military needed Israel's intelligence and hardware in the 1990s to pursue its conflict with Kurdish militants in eastern Turkey. The New York Times, in an article on Wednesday, detailed the military-to-military contacts and the joint training programs that formed the basis of their alliance. More recently, the geopolitics of the region has shifted. The Turkish population, especially since the Iraq/US conflict, responds more like a Middle Eastern state than anything else. Politicians that are worth anything can feel wind shifts; they try to get ahead of them and pretend they led people there."
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