Turkey and Russia: Cleaning up the Mess in the Middle East by Eric Walberg

http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/09/turkey-and-russia-cleaning-up-the-mess-in-the-middle-east-2/#more-22646 / September 30th, 2010 (12)

The neocon plan to transform the Middle East and Central Asia into a pliant client of the US empire and its only-democracy-in-the-Middle-East is now facing a very different playing field. Not only are the wars against the Palestinians, Afghans and Iraqis floundering, but they have set in motion unforeseen moves by all the regional players.
The empire faces a resurgent Turkey, heir to the Ottomans, who governed a largely peaceful Middle East for half a millennium. As part of a dynamic diplomatic outreach under the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkey re-established the Caliphate …

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