NATO and Balkans: First; reforms, resolve internal differences, good neighborly relations, contribute to security operations!

Clinton Affirms NATO Open-door Membership Policy   Gaining membership can be a lengthy and challenging process. We need to stick with it and remember our ultimate goal: a stronger, more durable, more effective NATO. The enlargement of the alliance, done right, is a core element of NATO’s purpose and its community. Georgia is advancing toward [...]

BMD details & Summit Declaration on Afghanistan. (en-fr)

Radar station in Turkey will do the job if there’s a crisis.   Allies themselves have committed to invest over $1 billion in command and control and communications infrastructure needed to support the NATO ballistic missile defense system. And the President has directed the transfer of the operational control of the radar in Turkey to [...]

ABD ve NATO’nun nezdinde Türkiye daima önemli bir ülke olmuştur…

Müttefiklerimizin gözünde Türkiye’nin değeri hiçbir zaman azalmamakta, daima güçlenmektedir!   ABD süper bir devlet. Dünyanın birçok bölgesiyle ilgilenir ve birçok olayıyla ilgilenir. Bunları şöyle kâğıda yazdığınızda, göreceksiniz ki bu ilgilendiğiniz konularla en çok ilgilenen ülkelerden birisi de Türkiye’dir. Başka bir kâğıda da ‘biz hangi konularla ilgileniyoruz’ diye yazdığımızda o kadar çok benzerlik çıkacaktır ki NATO [...]

File: Nato’s Chicago Summit Declaration – Déclaration du Sommet de Chicago (en-fr)

NATO Declares Missile Defense System Operational ©photocredit   NATO also agreed today to acquire an alliance ground surveillance capability that uses unarmed drones to provide crucial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance information to military commanders who must monitor developing situations and identify potential threats. Version française suit! ***

Uludere istihbaratını kim sağladı?

©Nusret Özgül Kimi yazarlar, Uludere/Roboski katliamında Genel Kurmay Başkanlığı’na yükleniyorlar. Muhalefetin, iktidara hücum ettiği gibi… Unuttukları veya değinmek istemedikleri, duyarlı ve ince bir “kırmızı çizgi” var ki; Pakistan’a hareketinden önce yaptığı basın açıklamasıyla, başbakan Erdoğan son derece net biçimde üzerine vurgu yapıyor ve bir anlamda da kendisini fena halde bağlıyor;

NATO’s 25th summit meeting – NATO Şikago Zirvesi & Turkey/Türkiye: File/Dossier/Dosya. (en/fr/tr)

Cumhurbaşkanı Gül’ü yoğun bir gündem bekliyor! Ülkemizin İttifak’a üye olmasının 60. yıldönümünde gerçekleşen bu yılki NATO Zirvesi’nin ana gündemi, maddi kaynak kullanımında azami etkinlik sağlanarak, İttifak’ın 21. yüzyıl güvenlik ortamının beraberinde getirdiği tehdit ve sorunların üstesinden gelmesini sağlayacak savunma imkân ve yetenekleriyle mücehhez kılınmasıdır. Bu kapsamda NATO Balistik Füze Savunması Sistemi, Akıllı Savunma Konsepti ve [...]

Hollande’s New France or…

Reshaping de Gaulle’s national strategy ! ©photocredit Vaadlerimin (yeni bir AB Anayasası…), Avrupa tarafından kabul göreceğinden emin olabilirsiniz!  The irony is that Hollande is a Socialist and the ideological enemy of Gaullism. But as we said, most presidents do not make strategy but merely shape an existing national strategy for the moment. It would seem [...]

Euro Crisis & Turkey.

Back with a Vengeance ©photocredit   Europe’s economic fragility impacts the global economy in many ways—and all of them are bad. Europe is not growing. When it’s all added up, we are talking about the world’s largest economy, and when it is in recession everyone suffers. ***

EU’s new sanctions and NATO’s likely “role” on Syria.

Syria: Council strengthens EU sanctions once more ©photocredit   In view of the gravity of the situation in Syria, the Council today reinforced once more EU restrictive measures against the Syrian regime. It froze the assets of two entities financially supporting the regime and targeted three additional persons with a travel ban and an asset [...]

Annan’s Plan Threatened With Failure?

“Moment of truth” as the deadline for thinking of a “Plan B,” on July 21st  The nearest discussion of “Plan B” scenarios revolves around Turkey thinking of putting forward Article 5 before the gathering of the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) in Chicago on the 20th and 21st of this month in order to obtain some [...]

Syria : For now, international involvement seems limited.

Is This an Arab Spring or a Balkan Winter?   Turkey has become the focus of hopes for some sort of intervention, given its role in hosting the Free Syrian Army and its anger at Assad’s handling of the crisis. But the fact that Syrian refugee camps in Turkey are taking on the features of [...]

We will do everything to ensure a safe and peaceful future.

Putin’s Evolving Strategy in Europe ©photocredit  It is our common duty to remember why the war began and to analyse its lessons, which remain just as relevant today. I stress today that strict respect for international law, state sovereignty and the independent choice of each people is one of the crucial guarantees for ensuring that [...]

Suriye konusunda, uluslararası toplumun birlikte hareket etmesi gerekiyor.

BM Güvenlik Konseyi’nin, BM’nin burada belki farklı bazı adımlar atması gerekecektir.  Sınırlarımıza herhangi bir tecavüzde bulunması halinde, biliyorsunuz NATO’nun 5. maddesi devreye girer. Şu anda henüz böyle bir şey söz konusu değil. Olması halinde konuşacağımız bir şeydir bu. Olmadan böyle bir şeyin konuşulması zaten doğru olmaz, yanlıştır. No NATO intervention, but Erdogan has ‘lost hope’ [...]

Change in the Middle East and Turkey…

Issues Affecting U.S.-Israel Relations   The closer convergence of U.S. and Turkish interests on regional developments since late 2010, especially with respect to the uprising in Syria and to Turkey’s hosting of a U.S. radar for a NATO-approved missile defense system, may be softening congressional concerns about Turkey’s regional policies and alignment. Whether ongoing political [...]

NATO Military Leaders’ informal discussion on Syria.

NATO Military Chiefs discussed “Lessons” Identified from Operation Unified Protector, NATO’s operation over and off Libya. NATO remains a very strong partnership — as strong as ever — and we have a lot of demonstrated successes with NATO if you look at the history up through today and current events, and especially in the last [...]