Turkey: on the threshold of a new militant revolution

21/04/2006 Ara SARGSYAN

Iranian authorities are only after one thing by coming up with new nuclear technologies each week: to justify buying war-heads from Ukraine back in the 90s. I would just like the reader to know that at the time, the prime minister of Ukraine was P. Lozarenko, who is currently in the U.S. and is being persecuted by Ukraine with the accusation of stealing 100 million dollars. It’s pretty interesting. On the one hand, the U.S. knew beforehand and allowed P. Lozarenko to sell Iran nuclear weapons (the U.S. is currently keeping Lozarenko as an honorable guest/witness) and on the other hand, blames Iran for acquiring nuclear weapons and taking control of them. This is much like what happened back in the 80s when the U.S., knowing beforehand and allowing it, provided Pakistan with nuclear weapons from the Netherlands.

The Iranian authorities know how clever the U.S. administration is and is playing the game with the same rules: cleverness. What happens in the end? It turns out that Iran made it so Russia and the three EU countries stop cooperating with the U.S. and is left alone with the U.S. in the global playing field of the Middle East. So, now the U.S. and Iran have to determine the future of Iraq together, as well as the future statuses of Afghanistan and Kurdistan. Iran is currently leading intensive negotiations with the U.S. in Baghdad and Geneva.

It is very possible that the negotiations will not go well and war will be inevitable for Iran. With the purpose of taking away Iran’s nuclear weapons potential, the U.S. is planning on attacking the nuclear weapons of Iran by air through Turkey (Injirlik and Diarbekir), as well as the airports and the entire system.

It turns out that Turkey is attacking Iran. I think Turkey understands this well enough. Turkey doesn’t have an alternative because the country itself is on the verge of collapse despite its military potential. I think that in this case, Turkey will be the one to take the initiative and progress, regulate and guide the processes.

How is the situation of the Turkish Armed Forces currently?

Before touching upon this issue, let’s just state that the real Turkish administration is in the hands of the commanders of the Turkish Armed Forces. Turkish militants have organized four militant revolutions in the past 40 years alone-in 1960, when the Caribbean crisis was going on, in 1971, the Isreali-Palestinian and Arabian war, in 1980, when the Iranian-Iraqi war started and the USSR entered Afghanistan with military troops and finally, 1997, when head of the Turkish army forced then prime minister and the leader of Islam Nejmettin Erbakani to resign. That same year, the U.S. was getting ready to attack Iraq and implementing the Big Middle East project, which is going on to this day and Turkish militants know very well about the side-effects of this. With that project, it is expected to form the Kurdistan state, which will lead to the dissolving of Turkey’s territorial integrity. Whenever there is any talk about the dissolving of the Turkish territories and borders and the shaking of the kemal state, Turkish authorities always get involved, especially head of the Turkish Armed Forces. This has happened four times within the past 40 years which, in fact, is permitted based on the 111th and 118th articles of the Turkish constitution. Based on all this, we can come to the conclusion that Turkish militants will start a revolution within a year. Perhaps this can explain the activation of the Kurd Labor Party (KLP) and the “conflicts” (revolt in reality) with Kurds living in Turkey, as well as the arrest of leader of the Islamic “Hezeb ut Takheiri” grouping Jehangiz Kabatash. In fact, the grouping is fighting for the creation of a Islamic caliph in Turkey, basically, they are violating the Article 111 of the Turkish constitution by doing that. This allows Turkish militants to take action, especially since according to some politicians, Iran and the U.S. are backing the Turk-Islam people. In this case, Turkey’s only strategic ally remains Israel, which most probably had sponsored and financed the Turkish militant revolution in 1997.

Israel is currently rearming the Turkish army. The country started the project aimed towards rearming the Turkish army back in 2000 with a 30 year period worth 150 billion dollars. Israel will supply Turkey with 1.5 billion dollars worth military equipment, including rearmament and updating of 200 Turkish Patton M 48 tanks, airplanes as well as the F4 Phantom and F-5 airplanes. Israel has a tank especially made for the Turkish Armed Forces, which Turkey must purchase for organizing series of products. It is expected to produce 1000 tanks of the same model worth 6 billion dollars.

Recently, the Israeli military troops headed by general Amos Yaron paid a visit to Ankara. During their visit, they made an agreement with the Turkish army, according to which, Israel will work with Turkey’s land forces and with that will end the entire strategic/technical cooperation cycle (until now Israel was working with air and maritime forces of Turkey). This is why Turkey is getting ready for a land invasion on Iran. So, Israel is trying to attack its enemy Iran though Turkey and from Turkish soil. If we add the fact that Iraq’s Kurdistan is under the control of Israel’s cosmopolitan leadership, then we will further understand all that is going on. The Kurdish factor is Israel’s playing card, with which Israel plans on starting conflicts with the Kurds living in Western Iran (there are nearly 6.5 million Kurds living there).

Now, let’s summarize the situation of the Turkish Armed Forces at the present with a summary. There are currently 660,000 soldiers serving in the Turkish army, of which 560,000 are under the control of land forces. There are also 4 army headquarters, 10 corpus headquarters, 5 divisions, 42 brigades (of which 14 are armored, 15 are machinery, 9 are infantry and 4 are of significant importance), 7 regiments, including the presidential guard, infantries and five border watchers, as well as 26 separate border watch battalions.

Turkey’s air forces consists of 56,000 militants, and 59.8 thousand maritime soldiers, whose number of maritime infantries consist of 2980 soldiers on the Black Sea basin alone. In fact, among the infantries spread out on the Black Sea basin,, 413 esquires wear size 44 shoes, while 2460 soldiers smoke Turkish cigarettes, 612 of the soldiers have received medical aid during the first trimester of this year, etc. The Turkish Armed Forces also have 4200 tanks, 3500 armored machinery, 4300 gunpowder, 750 military airplanes, nearly 100 attacking helicopters, 16 subways and nearly 500 different types of battleships, of which 72 battleships and 52 military caters are located on the Black Sea alone.

Turkey plans on purchasing 150 Russian-Israeli Ka-50-2 “Erdogan” attacking helicopters, which belong to the “Black Shark” class. The total price of the agreement is 3 billion dollars, and it is expected to sell the license of the production of the helicopters to Turkey in order to use them. I would just like to recall that those helicopters are armed with the “Igla” rocket missiles of the “air-air” class, as well as the new rocket missiles of the “Attack” class, which don’t even exist in the Russian Armed Forces. Overall, it appears that Turkey is seriously getting ready for an attack on Iran and perhaps the one that attacks first will be the winner.

What about Yerevan? While all this is going on, citizens of Yerevan are discussing the sale of the Hrazdan electricity station’s 5th energy block. I would just like to add that the Russians didn’t want to buy the energy block back in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, of 2005 because they wouldn’t benefit from that economically and sure don’t benefit now either. So, what changed their minds? Who is “mixed up” in all this? The U.S. is definitely mixed up in this, especially with the “Millennium Challenges” project according to which Armenia is obligated to implement the U.S.’s goals in the Southern Caucasus region. Some of those goals include allocation of “peacekeeping” forces in the liberated territories of Karabagh, conduct the 2007-2008 presidential and parliamentary elections based on the American scenario, open the Markara Bridge and joining the U.S. in the attack on Iran. Armenia may receive 236 million dollars based on that project (in the course of five years) if it fulfills the demands of the U.S. (in other words, if Armenia behaves itself). The Armenian government will only receive 6 million dollars this year. The Russians took this all in and understood it perfectly, they even suggested paying more than the Americans. In addition, according to sources, the 5th energy block of the Hrazdan electricity station was incomplete and it was on the verge of collapse. This was a Russian-American competition and this was a result of the game they played. It would be ridiculous to think that Armenian politicians and MPs came up with this. The most they can do is fight in casinos, steal suits from clothing stores and spend all their money. It would be better for them to stop spending all that money and give it to injured, handicapped soldiers of the Artsakh war and the families of deceased soldiers as charity, especially when it feels like a new war is coming to the region. The reader might say “it’s their money, let them do whatever they want with it”. I agree, but let them do that not as members of the Armenian parliament and trying to play a diplomat. Perhaps the president of Armenia was right when he said that he wanted to “teach them a lesson”. It appears that he has to take other measures.

P.S. Russians visiting Armenia over Easter were amazed at the price for whitefish in Yerevan markets. Armenians were selling one kilogram of fish for 12 dollars. G. Nzhdeh has once said about some of the oligarchs of Armenia and the “simple” whitefish sellers:

“There are dregs in every society, but nothing compares to an Armenian dreg.” Who can you teach a lesson?