The dispute between Turkey and Israel is likely to affect the CICA Summit
Istanbul (AsiaNews) - The conflict between Turkey and Israel, caused by the attack on the flotilla bound for Gaza, could affect the 3rd Summit of CICA (Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia) which started yesterday in Istanbul. This organization was created after a proposal by the President of Kazakhstan, Nazarbayev, in 1992 and assumed its present form in 2002. The CICA includes 20 states, which by statute must be part of Asia - 3.2 billion inhabitants, 45% of world population - of which only Russia is Christian, and is considered the Asian equivalent of the OCSE , while some Turkish journalists view it as a "non-aligned summit of the 21st century."
The 20 Member States are represented at the summit by foreign ministers, with the absence of Israel, which said it will be represented by its ambassador in Ankara, and will see the participation of Turkish President Gul and Prime Minister Erdogan, Prime Minister Putin, Mahmoud Abbas (Palestine) and Ahmadinejad (Iran), Aliev (Kazakhstan), Karzai (Afghanistan) and Assad (Syria) plus 7 observer countries such as USA, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Ukraine, Malaysia and of course the UN as well as various other international organizations. Currently the organization is chaired by Kazakhstan, while Turkey will assume the chairmanship for the next couple years. Already from the statements of Turkish foreign minister, made the day before yesterday at the Summit of the Islamic Conference in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the tone for the working climate has been set, when he said: that Israel's attack against the convoy to Gaza is "our September 11", which is why the summit will focus on recent events.
Erdogan has continued in the same strain, insisting on the setting up of a UN commission to investigate the incident and that the Turkish-Israeli relationship will depend on its outcome. And then, turning to domestic supporters of Israel he said: "It is time to stop spreading false rumours to support the positions of Israel." Istanbul's diplomatic circles believe that Erdogan was referring to two newspapers: Hurriyet, close to the Turkish " donmè " (Turks of Jewish origin, for most followers of the false messiah, Sabbatai Sevi, converted in 1660 under pressure from the Sultan – on pain of the death penalty – to Islam), who went on to become the Turkish elite and certainly of Kemalist orientation. The most prominent political figure of that group, the late foreign minister Ismail Cem. Hurriyet has supported the view of Israel, that the ship activists were terrorists. The second newspaper is the Cumhurriyet , by definition belonging to the Kemalist sphere.
These very circles note that there has been as strong rallying of the AKP party around its leader Erdogan, while some of his chief allies recalled to public attention the Balyoz affair (brought to light in November 2009 and not to be separated from the Ergenekon affair according to which the so-called ‘Deep State’ had planned a series of assassinations of Christian leaders hoping to blame them on the Islamists). On the other hand we must not forget that Turkey is currently experiencing a period of internal political transition, underpinned by strong economic growth and an ever growing geopolitical importance and is moving toward a referendum on the revision of certain articles of the constitution, scheduled for September 12. Exactly the same day as the military coup 29 years ago. The referendum seeks to end the smothering control of the Supreme Court, the last bastion of the Kemalist establishment, after the clamp down on the power of the army, in the wake of the Ergenekon affair (the Turkish Gladio) and the mismanagement of the Kurdish problem . The latter is the hot issue of the Turkish world because of the birth of the de facto Kurdistan in northern Iraq, where there is an Israeli influence, which is very irritating to Ankara.
All this sends fuels Erdogan’s rage, who the day before yesterday, at Iconium, surpassed himself when, with impulsive impetuous, addressing a large crowd, referred to the commandment "Thou shalt not kill," he said, "for us fate of Jerusalem is the same as Istanbul, just as the fate of Gaza is the same as that of Ankara. We will not allow the world ignore the massacres". He denounced "their do-gooder attitude. And then they talk to us about Hamas and al Qaeda and anti-Semitism. These things, continued Erdogan, are no longer valid. Israel follows a policy of aggression and knows how to kill. With this policy it undermines both the Palestinians and the Jewish people. And there's no comparison between the PPK and Hamas. Hamas is a resistance organization and is struggling to protect their territories. The Hamas members, although elected, are rotting in prisons. And finally, he said that Hamas is not a terrorist organization.
After these statements, that some believe might push Erdogan to travel aboard a convoy to Gaza, both he and Gul are striving to get to a concluding statement from the summit condemning Israel, but also supporting the initiative of Brazil and Turkey in the dispute over Iran's nuclear program.
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