Oluşturulma Tarihi: Temmuz 21, 2008 12:47
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki gave two important messages at Turkey's Foreign Ministry.
- A joint fight against the PKK and PEJAK terrorism.
- Iran is ready to take peaceful steps for its nuclear program. And Turkey will deliver this message to the United States.
Later the U.S. president's top security advisor Stephen Hadley arrived. Then advisors from high-profile NATO members met in Ankara. Then Israel's infrastructure minister paid a visit to Ankara, followed by officials from Russian Gazprom...
Two different Ankara is seen depending on which angle you look. From outside or from inside. Like the capital cities of two different country.
I spoke the Chief Consultant to Prime Minister Prof.Ahmed Davudoglu on this issue.
First thing he told me is:
"We have been building these relations for five years. Turkey has become a proactive country who is influential in its region. Look, we are the only country that can speak to anybody and any country in this region."
Just try to observe the last week of that Ankara.
Hadley leaves, Mottaki arrives.
Israeli National Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer. And Alexander Medvedev, the chairman of the Executive Board of Russian Gazprom, one of the most powerful names of Russia follows.
Turkey plays the “mediator” role in the one of the most tense regions in the world.
Shiite-Sunni in Iraq... A negotiator in Lebanon. Again negotiator between Syria-Israel... Active in Kosovo. A negotiator between Iran-U.S.
But it cannot negotiate and be influential just in place.
In Ankara... In the internal Ankara.
It gets polarized. It can not get rid of hate, paranoia, distrust and anger inside...
The negotiator of world countries is in the midst of an internal fight. A country which tries so hard for peace loses its young people in its lands to terrorism.
The internal war and bloodshed do not end in the house of the "negotiator."
Isn’t it weird and bitter?