War in the Mediterranean?

 

The naval war in Mediterranean waters is getting hotter by the day. Will there be war?

Wait and see.

What is really happening between Greece and Turkey is not anything new. Turkey is involved in Iraq with PKK. Turkey is in Syria, in Libya, and now in Greece. The problem is this.

Turkey is operating under 1982 Maritime Laws trying to protect its coastline and its economic rights under these internationally accepted norms and will not step back.                                                                                                    

On the other hand, for the last twenty years Greece has been using a map they drew where they claim the Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean as their property. They believe it is theirs and the map gives no room to Turkey.

Example: according to this Greek map if Turkey wants to send a ship from Istanbul to Antalya, a Turkish port city on the Mediterranean Sea, it must ask permission from Greece. This is the logic according to the Greeks.

Example: the Greek island of Meis is located two kilometers from the coastline of Turkey and 580 kilometers from the mainland of Greece. According to the Greeks their island has 200 miles of sea rights. In other words their sea rights extend two hundred miles from Meis into the Mediterranean Sea. They refuse to follow international law which recognizes only six miles of ocean from the mainland and islands belong to them. By law they cannot claim more than that.

Turkey will not even consider having a dialogue with Greece about this matter.

Turkey rightfully declared a Navtex (Navtex meaning it declares that international ships not to cross the area) for its shoreline and sent its drilling ship with the protection of six frigates and warships.

The Greeks declared a Navtex in the same area where the Turks are conducting seismic exploration.

Turkey does not recognize such an absurd claim but the Greeks still live with their ancient Greek mentality. They live in a dream world and whenever the Greek government is in trouble it activates this Greek nationality card, thus making Turkey the enemy.

Similarly, Armenians follow the same politics by lobbying and pushing money trying to corrupt newcomer senators and M.P’s in different countries. Their goal is to have laws passed in these different countries that declare the so-called Armenian Genocide as fact.

This is just another loser pipe dream trying to get Turkey to accept that the Ottomans committed genocide. They have no proof of this, but they keep trying. They too are living in a dream world.

In order to declare genocide the Armenians must prove to the UN there are undisputed facts and these facts must be argued by international lawyers. Armenians know that they don’t have any proof and they are unwilling to open their archives and confront the truth. They want easy money and compensation from Turkey.

Greece was formed in 1870 by three generals; an Englishman, a Frenchman, and a Russian. This occurred during the time the Ottoman Empire was in decline with the purpose of controlling the Turks rather than expanding as the Ottomans did. Later on Greece did gain islands in the Aegean Sea and during WWI they gained the Thrace section.

Greeks have always been supported by the EU. Since the trillions of cubic meters of natural gas were found in the Eastern Mediterranean, Greece, Southern Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon and Egypt formed an alliance excluding Turkey. Yet Turkey has the longest Mediterranean coastline.

Because of the gas every vulture in the world has warships in the Eastern Mediterranean including the U.S., France, England, Germany, and Russia. Even China is vying for a piece of the pie. All these countries have no business in the Mediterranean. Yet they formed an alliance to exclude Turkey from the riches of natural gas.

That is the fight. It is nothing but the continuation of the WWI scenario in which Turkey fought for its independence and today’s Turkey was created.

Here is the kicker. Germany is trying to encourage a dialogue between Greece and Turkey by telling the Turks that the situation is very dangerous. Then EU member France sends two warships and warplanes to Greece.

They play the good cop and bad cop roles, but they are supporting Greece.

We shall see where this ends. Not so long ago there was a Pentagon discussion about bringing two NATO allies into a conflict, that being Greece and Turkey. If Turkey and Greece do start war doesn’t that mean the end of NATO? And isn’t that exactly what Russia and China want?

For the time being the U.S. is playing a waiting game partly because of the elections. It does not want to get involved like it has in the previous years when the Greeks and the Turks were at each other’s throats.

Instead, the U.S. is using the United Arab Emirates. The UAE openly supports Greece and sent four F-16 war planes for military drills with Greece, France, and Italy. The UAE does not even have the capacity to do that but it takes orders from the U.S. In fact its pilots are foreigners and not even UAE nationals.

We shall see where we are headed in the next week or so.

Behcet Kaya

  

 

Turkey's 2023 Ambition Becoming a Reality

The following article was authored by Ibrahim Karagul and translated by Behcet Kaya

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXosiNBaorI

While angry mobs in the western capitals carried on, we say good bye to the world we knew. The U.S. and the EU are going through a racist fight which is not all racism. There is another fight going on under the racism.

The slavery methods of Western ideology are coming to an historical end. That is the fight under racism. Turkey is now a super power and whatever Turkey decides to do in Libya and the Eastern Mediterranean that is what will be. From now on a new method of solving world crisis and problems will be followed. Nations, countries, super powers, world maps, and communities will be redesigned. Colonialism, racism, lawlessness, unequal-pay, identities, geopolitical struggles, power struggles, community wordiness, geographic closeness will acquire a new shape.

The world as we know it, the old world order, Western power and Eastern power structure, advanced nations and third world nation separations will be thrown out and dumped into the landfill.

The fight in the U.S. and the EU is not about racism, but another kind of fight. White supremacists provocation in the U.S. for the angry blacks is not only for racist issues. We can prove the historical events that have taken place. In 1895 in London Edward Cooks’ statue (who was a racist) was thrown into the river, but not for the reason he was a racist, but for another agenda.

Similarly in Brussels, NATO headquarters, where it was understood and acted upon, the riots are just another community wave and will come and go and thinking will prove to be wrong this time. The western beliefs of this sort will come to an end. This dramatic western thinking belief system is coming to an end inside the western countries and it is already happening.

After the pandemic, the expected roaring of chaos across the Atlantic and surrounding its shore, are taking place right before us. It is happening here in the western world.

Until now all the chaos that had been instigated by the west in Muslim capitals is now happening in their own capitals. Until now those who organized chaos and coups in Muslim countries it is now happening in their capitals. Until now those who organized and destroyed Muslim cities, they are now feeling the same chaos and destruction in their cities. Until now it was how the CIA stirred up a country because that country simply wanted to take care of their own problems. It was how the CIA and western intelligence agencies destroyed democratically elected prime ministers. It was how presidents were mud slung and destroyed and how opposing nations were turned into poor third world failed states.

Within their own countries it is now happening to America and its European allies. Until now the western intelligence agencies used the ethnic identities, religious, and politically different groups in Muslim and non-Muslim countries such as Venezuela to fight amongst each other and destroy themselves. Until now the western intelligence agencies undermined the working democracies causing chaos and stopped the wheel of democracies in countries including Turkey. They are now starting to feel the pain of the chaos they created in other countries.

The tense disagreement between President Trump and Pentagon is the example of this. The new countries in the Atlantic surroundings are advancing. For the last thirty years the super powers as we know them are slipping away and diminishing. New powers are coming onto the world scene. The erosion of the Atlantic powers is not a periodicity, it is not a time slot where one can squeeze in between WWI and WWII like it did before.

This is much more deep rooted and basic. It’s radical, thorough going and much more than a long term power change. The power through Atlantic axis will no longer be able to supervise the world.

Thus, we Turks must discuss every event that is happening now one by one, in this reality. What we are doing in Syria, why we are in Libya, and the disagreement with other neighbors in sharing the wealth of the Eastern Mediterranean- we must dig deep and understand it all. This is the beginning of the end of the western system which drives humanity into slavery.

The western powers came along and began with geographical system lies- redesign of the Middle East with waves of colonialism to consume the under earth wealth of third world countries and to whither, blast millions of people, kill, suck the blood of nations, belittle races and nations, and condemn them to slavery.

This is the end history of American exceptionalism and American power. They are not out of reach of developing technology, military power, wealth and space race, in fact nothing the western powers do is unreachable; the pandemic has shown us that. Thus every nation has to prepare for this new world order. (Not to be mistaken by the liberal point of New World Order.)

Thus Turkey has to prepare and she is doing just that, despite the fact that both internally grown traitors and foreign powers are trying to stop Turkey. Does the destruction of civilian NGO’s mean Turkey is a super power? While we argue what the new system will be after the pandemic, the destruction of nations central systems, civilian nonprofit organizations, mass demonstrations, wearing away believing in their governments, the identity clash between citizens, causing fights between people, will be discussed immensely.

We have said this- the world was already changing. The existing world imperialist system was sinking. The last arguments for the ending of western capitalism have begun. For example, since the founding of the Republic of Turkey, for the first time becoming a central power is coming to the forehand, and Turkey has worked arduously to be prepared for that task.

Turkey has been fighting on all fronts around its borders for forty years. The building of the fronts against foreign powers were the indications of this task. Hence Turkey is becoming a super power because it is not a one front country but it is struggling with numerous fronts like a super power.

The powers of nations and individuals, wealth and hidden powers are all gone. Profiteering, helplessness, desperation and disgracefulness are all gone. The pandemic is not starting a new era, but it is speeding up an already fundamentally changing and continually changing world system; such as power slipping away from the known bi-polar systems administered by a few nations. It is changing at a mind boggling speed that we are unaccustomed to such rapid change. With its unstoppable speed it is heightening an area to a point of no return.

The cover over the powerful and wealthy countries has been taken away and their weaknesses are discovered. Some nations, such as Turkey, who look poor and who appear to lack skill and knowledge have endured resistance to foreign powers and their tremendous latent powers are now coming into the open.

Power, wealth, unlimited strength, advancement in technology, and whatever else comes to mind regarding western powers has become open.

What is revealed is the deep debility, pain, ache, bitterness, grief and sorrow, inhumaness, desperateness and disgracefulness.

From now on there are no words of persuasiveness, or convincing promises, or sympathetic words left they can say that would be convincing to the world.

Okay. What will change in our geography and Turkey?

Number one- question fiercely the Globalism and New World Order.

Nations will turn more inward; intensifying their political and economic situations.

Number two- nations will eliminate the middleman mentality such as NGO’s or missionaries. Rather they will deal directly nation to nation. Nations and countries will be arranged into groups and centralized. Geographic blocks will be created.

Number three- digital technology and finance will be controlled by the nations not by private entities. Nations will defend against the symbol of Globalization.

Number four- resistance against foreign influences inside the country and uncertainty outside the country will be dealt with. Countries and nations will gain powers; globalization and new world order organizations will be seen as threats. Already there is huge war tension and drums are sounding in the Pacific between China and the U.S.

Number five- China is getting ready to sit in the super power chair during the pandemic period. In Asia fierce competition between the U.S. and China will become unendurable. In Asia competition between China and India will become fierce. There will be an unbelievable geopolitical power struggle beginning between Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, and Japan.

Number six- there will no longer be shared interests in the European Union. We watched this after WWII i.e. regarding the German project of the European Union.

Number seven- we will watch the rise of Turkey. In the Middle East we will witness nations go downhill who are now standing on their own feet only by depending on U.S. and EU aid. The 2023 plan expectation (the hundred year anniversary of Republic of Turkey) will become a reality. Turkey will never withdraw from Libya.

Number eight- there will be expanded characteristic opportunities for Turkey regarding geographic areas in the Middle East and central Asia, North Africa and the Balkans. Turkey will find itself an extraordinary opportunity to build a super power in the West and East and in its own geographic area.

Number nine- Turkey will have an opportunity to create and put forward an influential language, political say so, and standing, Islam geopolitical standing from the Atlantic Ocean to Pacific shores.

Number ten- Turkey’s 2023 plan will become a reality. Turkey’s plan and the changing world’s plans will come together. During the pandemic our resistance and our better handling of Covid-19 than the super powers will take Turkey on a better road to raise power, positions, and opportunities after the pandemic changes.

Number eleven- Turkey will never leave Libya. Turkey will never leave Libya until it reaches its goals. It can’t do and it will not do it because what we are trying to explain is that the new world is making it necessary to do just that.

Body in the Woods a Jack Ludefance novel

Award-winning author Behcet Kaya has once again brought his PI protagonist Jack Ludefance to life in a novel of suspense and mystery, filled with indelible characters laced with threads of credible circumstances, in his latest book titled Body in the Woods.