Turkey claims to
pursue Syria solution with Russia
By Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor on August 11, 2016
Ankara, Moscow
building mechanism on Syria – YouTube
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor … with Press TV, Tehran
Can Erdogan pull
his feet out of the Syrian quicksand?
[ Note: Nobody we know saw the light-speed improvement
in Turkey’s relations with Russia, while those with the US, NATO and EU were
going to hell in a handbasket. Putin had already waived the green flag to start
Russian tourism back up, and this week, the Turkish Stream pipeline was
approved to start construction as soon as possible… to get the jobs and
subcontracts flowing.
Erdogan is playing
hardball with the US, claiming it has to choose between Turkey and Mr. Gulen,
and that is talking some “tough turkey” indeed. But the point will come where
the world gets tired of the repetition of the coup responsibility claims with
no public proof released. If Erdogan strings the game out too long, he could
see it boomerang on him.
The
big deal in these current moves is Saudi Arabia watching Moscow get a pipeline
flowing with 16-billion cubic feet of gas to Europe that it had hoped to do
with Qatar and its big gas fields, through the Northern Syria route, which
is what the battle for Northern Syria is all about — Pipeline Wars
101.
Still being kept
quiet is how much gas is sitting off Syria’s northern Med border, with
unreported geological surveys showing it going inland, which I am told, could
give legal right to those offshore field reserves to Syria. The wealth
from these reserves might allow Syria to become a large Dubai, which would make
a number of other powers very unhappy — enough to tear Syria to shreds to
prevent it… JD ]
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– Published on
… Aug 10, 2016 –
Turkish Foreign
Minister Mevlut Chavushoglu says Ankara is building a strong mechanism with
Russia to find a solution to the Syria crisis. Chavushoglu announced a
Turkish delegation will be traveling to Russia on Wednesday to discuss the
issue with Russian authorities.
He said President
Vladimir Putin has agreed to lift Russian sanctions against Turkish products
and facilitate the work on the TurkStream gas pipeline project, if needed.
Chavushoglu also criticized the European Union for its response to Turkey’s
failed coup.
Turkey witnessed a
failed coup in mid-July that led to nearly three-hundred deaths. Ankara has
blamed it on US-based opposition cleric Fethullah Gullen and wants him
extradited. More than 26-thousand people have been detained and many more have
been dismissed on suspicion of involvement in the abortive coup.
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