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Turkey’s rapprochement with Russia and Iran is increasing, despite rhetoric that Ankara is marketing to Western countries that it seeks to be an impregnable bulwark against Russian influence, according to a report in the Israeli newspaper “Gorzliom Post.”
The report noted that the chaos that has spread in recent years from Syria to Libya, the Mediterranean and the Caucasus is aimed at dividing these areas into regions of Russian and Turkish influence.
Ankara uses pressure groups in the United States of America to promote what it is doing as part of “geopolitics” with the aim of stopping the rise of Russian influence, but the reality, according to the newspaper report, is that Turkey and Russia is trying to work together with Iran to limit American influence in the Middle East.
The report indicated that Ankara is using Cold War terminology to encourage the West to believe that it is on the side of Washington against Moscow.
According to the report, the Russo-Turkish rapprochement appeared in every region that Ankara invaded and became involved in, as Turkey worked with Russia to divide parts of northern Syria, drive out American forces, and spread extremism.
As for Libya, the country has become a stage for Turkish-backed militias, while the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia put the two countries in direct contact in the Caucasus, and served to further facilitate the Russian presence in the region.
The newspaper report accused Turkey of ethnic cleansing against the Armenians, and after its success in Afrin against the Kurds, it also succeeded in Nagorno Karabakh. Turkey has sent extremists, accused of beheading, to loot churches and force Armenians to leave, according to the report.
The newspaper saw that Turkey is getting closer to Russia and buying more Russian-made weapons, and at the same time pretending to be an ally of the United States of America.
The report concluded that Western media feed on stories about the inevitability of a collision within the Turkish-Iranian-Russian triangle due to the various historical Ottoman, Persian and Russian imperial goals, or because they are Sunni, Shiite and Christian countries. However, this is incorrect and a misreading of history, the report adds, as The Triangle is expected to work against the West and to advance their shared military and authoritarian agendas.
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