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Originally posted by Senduko
Okay, honestly this has me baffled. What angle is Turkey playing at here? Turkey has the same goals in Syria; and as someone commented they peace over the 2010 incident.
Now he's putting the blame on Israel... So confused. And even more so, IF this proof is real.. Help me out out then
The Obama administration and Israel are two buddy's.
America supported Morsi -> 8 Billion in support.
And now Israel just messed up things for the administration...
What you guys think...
rt.com
(visit the link for the full news article)edit on 20-8-2013 by Senduko because: (no reason given)
The evidence Erdogan gave for the alleged Israeli involvement was a meeting in France before elections in Egypt in 2011 between an Israeli justice minister and an unnamed intellectual whom he quoted as saying the Muslim Brotherhood would not be in power even if it wins elections.
“What is said about Egypt? That democracy is not the ballot box. Who is behind this? Israel is. We have the evidence in our hands,” Erdogan said in a televised address to officials from his Islamic-rooted, ruling party. “That’s exactly what happened.”
An aide later told The Associated Press that the evidence Erdogan was referring to was a video “available on the Internet” of a press conference by Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and French philosopher and author Bernard-Henri Levy.
A video of the two, dating back to 2011, shows Levy saying: “If the Muslim Brotherhood arrives in Egypt, I will not say democracy wants it, so let democracy progress. Democracy is not only elections, it is also values.”
Pressed further as to whether he would urge Egypt’s military to intervene against the Muslim Brotherhood, Levy says: “I will urge the prevention of them coming to power, but by all sorts of means.”
Moreover, Erdoğan seems determined not to accommodate his critics. His top lieutenant recently declared that the AKP had intercepted actionable intelligence about “major provocations” to come in September across campuses and stadiums, suggesting that the government is already gearing up for potential protests and providing justification for police intervention months in advance.
The key question is not whether the protests will succeed or not. It is how AKP will respond to the genie - or the “spirit” - that escaped the bottle. If AKP keeps to its current course, we will be looking at the coming of a Turkish Winter which entails two possible scenarios. In the first, AKP’s unaccommodating and repressive measures fuel a spiral: angrier as well as more radicalized protests incite harsher reactions from the government, and vice versa. This spiral will inadvertently and gradually lead to an environment where AKP will be compelled to institutionalize openly repressive and autocratic measures to contain the protests. An even worse scenario is one where neither the demonstrators nor AKP can control popular energies. While civil strife remains the less likely outcome, it would also be naïve to ignore this possibility, especially considering Turkey’s polarized political atmosphere where references to religiosity (versus secularism) are increasingly serving as fault lines that deeply divide the society.
In June, Erdoğan missed a golden opportunity that could have steered the country toward a democratic spring. Come this autumn, he will have to make a different choice: step on the brakes or push even further forward. If Erdoğan chooses the latter, what is to follow may or may not break the Gezi spirit, but it will most certainly mark the beginning of a long and harsh political winter in Turkey.