Retired general: Turkey warns US with Putin speech
As promised, some good news!
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Putting Putin’s ‘US-bashing’ speech on the Web site of the Turkish Office of the Chief of General Staff amounts to a warning to Washington, says retired Maj. Gen. Kulo?lu. Meanwhile, the Russian leader promoted defense minister Ivanov to first vice premiership in another move seen as a sign of Putin’s consolidating his power
ISTANBUL - TDN with wire dispatches
As the world debates the meaning of the now-famous Feb.10 speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Munich Security Conference, the full text was put on the Web site of the Turkish Office of the Chief of General Staff, fueling opinions that Turkey is deeply concerned with Washington's policies on Iraq, Iran and terrorism.
The Russian leader also took new steps to guarantee that his policies will continue even after he resigns next year. Putin promoted his hawkish defense minister Sergei Ivanov to first vice premiership late Thursday, a move that is widely regarded as preparing Ivanov as his heir in the March 2008 presidential elections.
Putin's Feb. 10 speech, in which he accused the United States of stoking a new arms race, damaging the United Nations and acting unilaterally, is a sign that ?unipolarity will not continue,? said retired Maj. Gen. Arma?an Kulo?lu.
Observing signs of multi-polarity, Kulo?lu noted one of the new poles will be Russia. ?Moscow manages and markets its energy resources skillfully, strengthens its economy and creates new resources for modernizing its military and enhancing its technology,? Kulo?lu told the Turkish Daily News over the phone on Friday. ?The Russian leader gave a sign that U.S. power is not what it was before. Considering the positions of China, India or European Union, the sole power to give this sign was Russia.?
Turkey's veiled warning:
And did the ?gesture? of the Turkish Office of the Chief of General Staff amount to another sign from Turkey? Noting that Turkish-U.S. relations are suffering from issues such as the approaching referendum in the oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk and claims of Armenian genocide, Kulo?lu noted that to balance the situation, Washington uses the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) card as a balm for bruised relations.
The gesture could be interpreted as a message that ?There are other powers than the United States,? said Kulo?lu. ?If so, the Office of the Chief of General Staff is saying that there are emerging powers in the world now and thus Turkey should not be pushed too hard on issues like terrorism, northern Iraq and Iran. The bilateral dialogue should be on equal footing, as Turkey also has good relations with those other powers.?
Kulo?lu added that the United States will either dismiss the ?virtual gesture? as an ordinary act, or will understand that it has to tread carefully. ?I don't think it will have much of an effect,? he said.
But Professor Oktay Tanr?sever, an international relations expert from the Middle East Technical University, had reservations about this point of view. The gesture should not be interpreted as an approval of Putin's opinions, he told Referans by phone on Friday.
"The speech also included some statements that could disturb Turkey, notably on energy lines and the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline," he said. "The General Staff might have put the speech on its Web site to inform people of the Munich Conference and the timing with Büyükan?t's visit to Washington might just be a coincidence. Governments have much more effective ways of conveying messages to each other."
Putin on the move:
Meanwhile, Thursday night's move put Ivanov and the more liberal Dmitry Medvedev on equal footing and both men are now seen as the chief rivals for anointment by Putin as his favored successor in the March 2008 election, reported The Associated Press.
Each man now holds the title of first vice-premier, formalizing a rivalry that is never mentioned officially but is played out daily on state-run television, which prominently features them struggling to look presidential in government meetings, speeches and closely choreographed visits to farms and factories.
Putin replaced Ivanov as defense minister with Anatoly Serdyukov, until now head of the federal tax agency.
?[Ivanov] has been given a good, clean job,? said analyst Yevgeny Volk, the head of the Moscow office of the Heritage Foundation, a U.S.-based think tank. Volk said the reshuffle signaled Putin's apparent intention to even up Ivanov's chances in competition with Medvedev.
Putin is barred from a third consecutive term by the Russian Constitution. A candidate with his support would have a massive advantage over rivals because of the president's strong popularity.
Ivanov, a colleague of Putin's in the Soviet-era KGB, shares the president's chilly criticism of U.S. foreign policy and his blustery warnings to the West.
Russian analysts have speculated that similarities in their statements on issues such as U.S. missile defense plans mean the president is leaning toward supporting him as a successor.
Alkhanov dismissed:
In another move, Putin dismissed the president of the war-battered republic of Chechnya and named its widely feared prime minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, as acting president.
The dismissal of Alu Alkhanov came after days of speculation that he was engaged in a power struggle with Kadyrov, who is alleged by human rights groups to be responsible for abductions and detention of civilians and suspected separatist rebels.
A Kremlin statement Thursday said that Alkhanov was freed from the post ?by his own wish,? but Alkhanov had denied this week that he was on the verge of resigning and that ?whether I remain president fully depends on the will of the Almighty and the president of our country.?
He was appointed a deputy Russian justice minister, a separate statement said. Kadyrov is the son of the late Akhmad Kadyrov, who was assassinated seven months after becoming Chechen president in 2003.
More to come...
How many of these MAFIA GROUPS do you think are Ashkenazi Khazarian?!!!!
FYI: The "Mafia Wars" that broke out in the early 1900s were between the Italians and the "jewish"....
....guess who were more ruthless, more murderous, who came out on top? who fought for control of the media (which was then based in the East, i.e. NYC)?
The complete liquidation of organized criminal groups has begun in Russia, according to the Russian Interior Ministry. “There are 450 large organized criminal groups operating in Russia these days. These groups exert a considerable influence on a socioeconomic and criminogenic situation in the regions,” said Russia’s Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev, in an interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
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According to Nurgaliyev, the total number of the members of the groups is estimated at 12,000. “For conventional purposes, I’d like to divide these criminal groups into three levels. Russia’s largest organized criminal groups are connected with foreign criminal groups; they are considered a serious danger to society. The groups are dealt by the Interior Ministry’s department specialized in fighting organized crime and terrorist activities. About 50 groups conduct their activities across several regions of Russia. The units under the chief directorates in the regions deal with those. The regional units assigned to fight organized crime take care of the remaining groups,” said Nurgaliyev.
Nurgaliyev stressed the point that a new plan to combat organized crime had been adopted and put into operation. “We implemented the first stage of the plan last March. We carried out a thorough analysis of the situation in the regions, and completed a radical update of our data base. Within two years we’re planning to take necessary steps to target leaders and most active members of the largest organized criminal groups. By the way, new efficiency criteria relating to such operations came into force this January. We used to pay special attention to the number of cases solved while investigating crimes committed by organized criminal groups. Now we shift emphasis to the number of criminal groups that were completed eliminated, and the number of group members who were convicted for their crimes,” said Nurgaliyev.
The interior minister claimed that a long-lasting stereotype about immortality of the so-called mafia had been already broken down. Last year the prosecutors brought more than 1.5 actions against almost 2,000 members of highly organized criminal groups, including actions instituted against 780 leaders of the groups. The police restored the state control over 237 economic facilities, which had been under the sway of criminal groups. The police also terminated the activities of 161 criminal enterprises.
The Supreme Court of Tatarstan reached a verdict of conviction for 179 members of an organized criminal group called “29 Complex.” The bandits were charged with murders, extortions, kidnappings and other crimes. All the accused were sentenced to lengthy terms, which add up to nearly 500 years in prison.
The police in St. Petersburg and Leningrad region put an end to the activities of two criminal groups which were involved in the illegal seizure or raiding of large plants. The investigation of the cases pertaining to the activities of criminal groups in Kemerovo region, Novosibirsk region, and Kirov region is under way.
Russia's foreign minister Tuesday reaffirmed Moscow's concern over U.S. plans to deploy missile defense sites in Europe, saying Russia would respond but would not enter a new arms race.
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Poland and the Czech Republic both indicated Monday that they were ready to move forward with plans by Washington under which the U.S. would put 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic.
"Russia will respond to emerging threats to its national security in a carefully weighed, adequate way, and won't allow anyone to draw it into a new confrontation, a new arms race," Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday in a speech at a Moscow university.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin has said he does not trust American claims that the move is aimed at countering a missile threat from Iran and pledged countermeasures. At a conference in Munich earlier this month, he criticized U.S. foreign policy, accusing Washington of uncontained use of force worldwide and of triggering a global arms race in angry comments that shocked Western governments, reports AP.
On Monday, Russia's missile forces commander Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov warned Monday that Poland and the Czech Republic risk being targeted by Russian missiles if they agree to host U.S. missile defense bases.
Lavrov said Tuesday that Russia also was concerned about NATO forces' deployment near its borders and the alliance's refusal to ratify a modified version of the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty regulating the deployment of tank, aircraft and other heavy non-nuclear weapons around the continent.
Lavrov has warned earlier that NATO's refusal to ratify the document had made the treaty "meaningless," and signaled that Moscow could opt out of it.
Regarding the 'racist' closet Zionist Jebus, will respond to him. And if you don't like people 'putting words' in your mouth, don't put words in other people's mouths.
However, I am glad he took the bait. Will respond in due time.
Please be patient.
PS: And by the way, 'jews' are not a particular 'race'....