BY CUNEYT ULSEVER
HURRIYET- Columnist Cuneyt Ulsever comments on Turkey, the US and recent developments on the Iraq issue. A summary of his column is as follows:
Washington has accused Turkey of being indecisive between this March and last month’s passage of a measure for Turkish troop deployment in Iraq, but actually it is more indecisive than Ankara and moreover stupefied. Instead of ensuring peace and order, the US has ceded the streets of Iraq to professional terrorists. In addition, now the Kurdish and Baghdad administrations have control there, instead of the US. Germany, France and even Russia and China can only stare at the US’ confusion.
We are also angry with the US, and some of us even have good reason to make fun it. Our government seems to be bothered but actually it’s glad. However, I’m actually very worried because the mounting chaos in Iraq disturbs me greatly. Now the current confusion shows that the US will either have to withdraw from Iraq in embarrassment or agree to let in certain unavoidable elements. The most important of these include Shiite leaders, Baath Party supporters, Kurdish religious sects, the terrorist PKK/KADEK and al Qaeda.
Enmity towards Turks is one of the rare issues on which these groups all agree. Almost all of them consider Turkey a clear and potential danger both for themselves and the region. Obviously some of these elements are just waiting for an opportunity to get Turkey into trouble. If the United Nations decides to intervene in this chaos, this time imperialist countries will work hard to divvy up Iraq economically by cutting out Ankara. So Turkey will once again be left out of the equation. In short, I’m really worried on Turkey’s behalf about the carelessness of the US.