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by Get Real! » Mon May 31, 2010 12:39 am
Gaza aid flotilla could hit Turkey tourism
Israeli trade unions might renew their explicit boycott of Turkey as a destination for their members, in view of Ankara's role in organizing the aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/bu ... m-1.292954
Israeli trade unions might renew their explicit boycott of Turkey as a destination for their members, in view of Ankara's role in organizing the aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/bu ... m-1.292954
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by Lit » Mon Jul 26, 2010 6:17 pm
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/x ... 7/26/nb-07
Iran announces pipeline deal with Turkey
26/07/2010
TEHRAN, Iran -- The oil ministry announced on Saturday (July 24th) that the country has signed a $1.3 billion pipeline agreement to ship natural gas to Turkey. The 660 km-long pipe will be able to transport 50-60m cubic metres of natural gas to Europe. The Turkish government says the deal was signed by a company called Som Petrol, and denied any state involvement in the firm. (Reuters, Al Jazeera, FARS - 24/07/10)
Iran announces pipeline deal with Turkey
26/07/2010
TEHRAN, Iran -- The oil ministry announced on Saturday (July 24th) that the country has signed a $1.3 billion pipeline agreement to ship natural gas to Turkey. The 660 km-long pipe will be able to transport 50-60m cubic metres of natural gas to Europe. The Turkish government says the deal was signed by a company called Som Petrol, and denied any state involvement in the firm. (Reuters, Al Jazeera, FARS - 24/07/10)
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by Lit » Mon Aug 02, 2010 12:39 pm
Israel fears Turks could pass its secrets to Iran
http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/i ... dChannel=0
By Dan Williams
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak has voiced concern that once-stalwart ally Turkey could share Israeli intelligence secrets with Iran, revealing a deep distrust as Ankara's regional interests shift.
The leaked private comments by Barak cast doubt on how much Israel is willing or able to reconcile with Turks outraged at its navy's killing of nine of their compatriots aboard an aid ship that tried to run the Gaza Strip blockade on May 31.
Until relations soured, Turkey had been the Muslim power closest to the Jewish state, a friendship largely based on military cooperation and intelligence sharing.
In a closed-door briefing to Israeli community leaders at a kibbutz outside Jerusalem on July 25, Barak still described Turkey as a "friend and major strategic ally."
But he called Hakan Fidan, the new head of its National Intelligence Organization, a "friend of Iran."
"There are quite a few secrets of ours (entrusted to Turkey) and the thought that they could become open to the Iranians over the next several months, let's say, is quite disturbing," Israel's Army Radio quoted him as saying in the speech. The Defense Ministry declined comment. But a person who attended the kibbutz event told Reuters on Monday that the Army Radio report was accurate, and that Barak had been speaking in the context of past Israeli-Turkish intelligence cooperation.
Appointed in May, Fidan was previously a foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, whose AK Party has roots in political Islam and has often censured Israel. Turkish sources say Fidan has also helped to mediate between the West and Iran over Tehran's disputed nuclear program.
Israel has hinted at last-ditch military strikes to deny the Iranians the means to make a nuclear bomb -- a threat boosted by its 2007 air raid on an alleged atomic reactor in Syria, during which Israeli warplanes briefly flew over Turkish territory.
The Erdogan government was angered by that incursion and has pointed to Israel's own assumed nuclear arsenal. Such positions have rallied Arabs and Muslims around Turkey, a NATO member.
Ali Nihat Ozcan of the Ankara-based TEPAV think tank saw in Barak's remarks an effort at "psychological pressure" on Turkey.
"It's understood that there is a paranoia that Turkey could share with Iran what it could have shared with Israel before, regarding Iran's nuclear program," he said, noting that Fidan formerly represented Turkey on the board of governors of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency watchdog.
Ankara has not commented publicly on the state of its intelligence ties with Israel. But some Turkish commentators have looked askance at media reports of Israeli collaboration with Kurds in northern Iraq, given their suspected ties to Turkey's separatist Kurdish guerrilla group PKK.
By contrast, Israel's Mossad spy agency was widely reputed to have helped Turkey to capture PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in 1999, though then-Mossad chief Efraim Halevy denied involvement.
There has also been ridicule in Turkey of an Israeli inquiry into the interception of the pro-Palestinian aid ship Mavi Marmara, which faulted military intelligence for not anticipating passengers' resistance to the naval boarding party.
Marines shot dead nine Turks in the ensuing fighting, an action Israel has justified as self-defense. Turkey, which withdrew its ambassador and suspended joint military exercises with Israel in protest at the bloodshed, has demanded an apology and a wider international investigation.
http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/i ... dChannel=0
By Dan Williams
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak has voiced concern that once-stalwart ally Turkey could share Israeli intelligence secrets with Iran, revealing a deep distrust as Ankara's regional interests shift.
The leaked private comments by Barak cast doubt on how much Israel is willing or able to reconcile with Turks outraged at its navy's killing of nine of their compatriots aboard an aid ship that tried to run the Gaza Strip blockade on May 31.
Until relations soured, Turkey had been the Muslim power closest to the Jewish state, a friendship largely based on military cooperation and intelligence sharing.
In a closed-door briefing to Israeli community leaders at a kibbutz outside Jerusalem on July 25, Barak still described Turkey as a "friend and major strategic ally."
But he called Hakan Fidan, the new head of its National Intelligence Organization, a "friend of Iran."
"There are quite a few secrets of ours (entrusted to Turkey) and the thought that they could become open to the Iranians over the next several months, let's say, is quite disturbing," Israel's Army Radio quoted him as saying in the speech. The Defense Ministry declined comment. But a person who attended the kibbutz event told Reuters on Monday that the Army Radio report was accurate, and that Barak had been speaking in the context of past Israeli-Turkish intelligence cooperation.
Appointed in May, Fidan was previously a foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, whose AK Party has roots in political Islam and has often censured Israel. Turkish sources say Fidan has also helped to mediate between the West and Iran over Tehran's disputed nuclear program.
Israel has hinted at last-ditch military strikes to deny the Iranians the means to make a nuclear bomb -- a threat boosted by its 2007 air raid on an alleged atomic reactor in Syria, during which Israeli warplanes briefly flew over Turkish territory.
The Erdogan government was angered by that incursion and has pointed to Israel's own assumed nuclear arsenal. Such positions have rallied Arabs and Muslims around Turkey, a NATO member.
Ali Nihat Ozcan of the Ankara-based TEPAV think tank saw in Barak's remarks an effort at "psychological pressure" on Turkey.
"It's understood that there is a paranoia that Turkey could share with Iran what it could have shared with Israel before, regarding Iran's nuclear program," he said, noting that Fidan formerly represented Turkey on the board of governors of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency watchdog.
Ankara has not commented publicly on the state of its intelligence ties with Israel. But some Turkish commentators have looked askance at media reports of Israeli collaboration with Kurds in northern Iraq, given their suspected ties to Turkey's separatist Kurdish guerrilla group PKK.
By contrast, Israel's Mossad spy agency was widely reputed to have helped Turkey to capture PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in 1999, though then-Mossad chief Efraim Halevy denied involvement.
There has also been ridicule in Turkey of an Israeli inquiry into the interception of the pro-Palestinian aid ship Mavi Marmara, which faulted military intelligence for not anticipating passengers' resistance to the naval boarding party.
Marines shot dead nine Turks in the ensuing fighting, an action Israel has justified as self-defense. Turkey, which withdrew its ambassador and suspended joint military exercises with Israel in protest at the bloodshed, has demanded an apology and a wider international investigation.
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by Lit » Wed Aug 25, 2010 2:00 am
Turkey won't abide by US sanctions against Iran
Aug 24, 2010 17:04 Moscow Time
Turkey has warned the United States that it won’t abide by the unilateral American sanctions against Iran, which were imposed two months ago.
The warning was given to an American delegation that visited Ankara recently to present details of the new sanctions package signed into law by President Barack Obama in June.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry reiterated the country’s opposition to any additional sanctions beyond those approved by the UN Security Council.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/08/24/17068994.html
Aug 24, 2010 17:04 Moscow Time
Turkey has warned the United States that it won’t abide by the unilateral American sanctions against Iran, which were imposed two months ago.
The warning was given to an American delegation that visited Ankara recently to present details of the new sanctions package signed into law by President Barack Obama in June.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry reiterated the country’s opposition to any additional sanctions beyond those approved by the UN Security Council.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/08/24/17068994.html
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by Lit » Wed Aug 25, 2010 2:27 am
Lit wrote:Turkey won't abide by US sanctions against Iran
Aug 24, 2010 17:04 Moscow Time
Turkey has warned the United States that it won’t abide by the unilateral American sanctions against Iran, which were imposed two months ago.
The warning was given to an American delegation that visited Ankara recently to present details of the new sanctions package signed into law by President Barack Obama in June.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry reiterated the country’s opposition to any additional sanctions beyond those approved by the UN Security Council.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/08/24/17068994.html
Turkish firms deal with Iran at their peril, the US warns
Turkish companies that continue their relations with Iran in defiance of sanctions risk having all business ties with the United States severed, a U.S. government delegation to Turkey has reportedly warned.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php? ... 2010-08-20
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by AWE » Wed Aug 25, 2010 2:45 am
US: Swiss-Iran gas deal sends 'wrong message'
By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
08/19/2010 02:10
EGL's €18 billion contract prompts criticism from US Embassy.
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BERLIN – Swiss energy giant EGL’s €18 billion gas contract with Iran prompted criticism on Tuesday from the US Embassy.
“As we noted in the past when this deal was first announced, oil and gas deals with Iran send the wrong message when Iran continues to defy UN Security Council resolutions. We have raised our concerns with the Swiss government about this arrangement on multiple occasions,” a spokesman for the embassy in Bern told The Jerusalem Post in an e-mail.
http://www.jpost.com/International/Arti ... ?id=185225
By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
08/19/2010 02:10
EGL's €18 billion contract prompts criticism from US Embassy.
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BERLIN – Swiss energy giant EGL’s €18 billion gas contract with Iran prompted criticism on Tuesday from the US Embassy.
“As we noted in the past when this deal was first announced, oil and gas deals with Iran send the wrong message when Iran continues to defy UN Security Council resolutions. We have raised our concerns with the Swiss government about this arrangement on multiple occasions,” a spokesman for the embassy in Bern told The Jerusalem Post in an e-mail.
http://www.jpost.com/International/Arti ... ?id=185225
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by Lit » Sat Aug 28, 2010 12:44 am
Turkey asks for removal of Congress veto on arms sale
Friday, August 27, 2010
ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News
Turkish officials have asked the United States administration to increase its pressure on Congress to approve a pending arms sale to Turkey, which needs arms in the fight against terror, according to diplomatic sources.
“We have realized that we should inform members of Congress better on Turkey and current issues. To this end, we will send delegations to the U.S. Congress after Congress elections in November,” a source said.
The message was given to U.S. officials by the Turkish diplomatic delegation headed by Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu that visited Washington this week. The delegation held talks with senior State Department officials William Burns and James Steinberg, American-Turkish Council head Richard Armitage and representatives of the pro-Israeli lobby in the United States.
According to reports, the U.S. Congress suspended the process of important arms sales to Turkey following the country’s no vote at the United Nations Security Council over imposing a new round of sanctions on Iran. A number of Congressmen later signed a joint statement urging the administration to review its state of alliance with Turkey.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php? ... 2010-08-27
Friday, August 27, 2010
ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News
Turkish officials have asked the United States administration to increase its pressure on Congress to approve a pending arms sale to Turkey, which needs arms in the fight against terror, according to diplomatic sources.
“We have realized that we should inform members of Congress better on Turkey and current issues. To this end, we will send delegations to the U.S. Congress after Congress elections in November,” a source said.
The message was given to U.S. officials by the Turkish diplomatic delegation headed by Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu that visited Washington this week. The delegation held talks with senior State Department officials William Burns and James Steinberg, American-Turkish Council head Richard Armitage and representatives of the pro-Israeli lobby in the United States.
According to reports, the U.S. Congress suspended the process of important arms sales to Turkey following the country’s no vote at the United Nations Security Council over imposing a new round of sanctions on Iran. A number of Congressmen later signed a joint statement urging the administration to review its state of alliance with Turkey.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php? ... 2010-08-27
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