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Turkey, from shades to light!
Published in Alriyadh on 08 - 08 - 2011

The transform of Turkey from living in the European shade serving the NATO and the American bases center to taking new roles is something that put it within the international conflicts episodes, specifically the Arab ones.
It started close relations with Syria by eliminating visas and opening the borders for them, as well as drawing a long-term strategy for unprecedented economic and political solutions. But the public revolution in Syria put Turkey in a confrontation with Al Asad's government, meaning that the flexible diplomacy that it used lost its value, which required Turkey's actions to be more of a public threatening, where the talks can extend to a military action if Turkey found it self in front of a clash by the density of the Syrian refugees, and with its new position, Turkey wants to gain a lot of political and incorporeal benefits as the opportunity may not reoccur.
Turkey wants to prove for Europe and America that it is deep in its Islamic-Sunni parameters, and that Syria is its crossing path to the region when it stood with the citizens against the oppressive government that hided under the sectarian cloths, and it attempted to show that citizens are the ones striking the military and security forces, which is a shallow saying in front of the live scenes of the neighborhoods and villages in Syria and the bloody images that are beyond imagination.
The second thing is that Turkey felt the Iranian danger as it stood with the Syrian government against its citizens, and it is a game that is beyond the current benefits to future plans, meaning that what is said about a Shiite surrounding of the region should be faced with a Sunni restraint that surrounds Iran. Moreover, the countries of NATO may find that it is important to stand with Turkey even if their views varied with Turkey because it is the only example that disrupts the growth of extreme Islam, which became a threat that the presidents in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and currently Syria attempted to consider it the alternative of their governments. The Israeli side comes more supportive to Turkey's position, because assuring the vanishing of the current ruling suggests a Turkish existence that compensate for any slipping towards instability in Syria, which might lead it to more dangerous security situations.
Syria in its current situation is in front of three regional powers, where each of them views the situation from his perspective, which are considerations that blew the Iranian plans but is still believing in limiting the revolution and eliminating it. In the mean time, Israel is observing, and it might enter the battle through a lot of gaps that were opened to it by feeding sectarianism and tribal divisions to get Syria busy internally, and Turkey will remain the more concerned with the situation because of the total Arab satisfaction with it as well as the western support of the allies. There is also a fear of Iran to be the alternative of the Sunni majority that declared its enmity from within Syria to Iran, Hezb Allah and all their supporters from Lebanon or Iraq's and Gulf's Shiites.
Nevertheless there is an opposing view, meaning that the Turkish anticipations are feared to shrink by the Europeans, by spreading ottoman-like forces against them, even if the balanced Islam is what the forces is based, a mass that extends to a large world. The appearance of such force will not serve the western interests on the long run, and this doubt is raised by more than one side, even Israel view it as an unaccepted thing to have an Islamic restraint that change the spread equations in the region and outside the region.


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