{"id":261,"date":"2008-08-30T22:41:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T05:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2010-06-08T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T19:04:12","slug":"turkeys-choice-russia-or-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s Choice: Russia Or NATO?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/to\/pictures\/kurdfire2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"5\" font face=\"verdana\" color=\"CC0033\">TURKEY&#8217;S CHOICE:<\/font> <font size=\"5\" face=\"verdana\" color=\"000099\"> RUSSIA OR NATO?<\/font><\/strong><br \/>\n<font face=\"verdana\" size=\"2\">By Brother Nathanael Kapner, Copyright 2008-2010<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/to\/pictures\/header2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\">Articles May Be Reproduced Only With Authorship of Br Nathanael Kapner<br \/>\n&#038; Link To <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realzionistnews.com\"><strong><font color=\"#990066\"><em>Real Zionist News<\/em><\/font> <font  face=\"Ariel Narrow\" size=\"1\">(SM)<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"3\" color=\"990033\">Support Brother Nathanael!<\/font>  <a href=\"https:\/\/co.clickandpledge.com\/sp\/d1\/default.aspx?wid=26246\"><font size=\"2\" color=\"FF00FF\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/font><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/connect.clickandpledge.com\/w\/Form\/b783a9c0-c8f5-459b-8e7a-e4ad02c23f79\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brovids.com\/images\/CP_EN_GR_A_001.gif\" width=\"97\" height=\"84\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Online donation system by ClickandPledge\" title =\"Online donation system by ClickandPledge\"  style =\"border:1px solid #efefef\"> <\/a><br \/>\n<strong><font size=\"3\" face=\"verdana\" color=\"0033FF\">Or Send Your Contribution To:<\/strong><\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"FF0000\">Brother Nathanael Kapner; PO Box 547; Priest River ID 83856<\/font><br \/>\nE-mail: <em> bronathanael@yahoo.com <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rense.com\/general82\/opd.htm\"><font color=\"FF6600\"><strong> Unique Source:<\/a><\/strong><\/font> <em>Pipelines &#038; Operation Dagestan<br \/>\n<\/em> @ <a href=\"http:\/\/rense.com\/\"><strong><font color=\"FF00FF\">Rense.com<\/a><\/font><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rense.com\/general82\/opd.htm\"><strong><font color=\"FF6600\">Here<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<strong><font size=\"3\" face=\"verdana\" color=\"660033\">VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS LOOKED INTO THE SOUL<\/font> <\/strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\"> of the West and has decided that the NATO participating nations of Europe need Russia more than they need NATO. <\/p>\n<p>And one NATO-participating nation in particular, Turkey, is being <em>put to the wall <\/em>to decide against <em>both<\/em> the US <em>and<\/em> NATO in favor of Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>On August 5 2008, only three days before Georgia invaded S.Ossetia, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamestown.org\/edm\/article.php?article_id=2373301\">Kurdish separatists set fire<\/a> to the US funded Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline near the eastern Turkish city of Erzincan, shutting the pipeline down and raising questions about the pipeline&#8217;s security.<\/p>\n<p><center> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/to\/pictures\/avoidr.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Covering the story, <em>Der Spiegel<\/em> interviewed Richard Morningstar, Bill Clinton&#8217;s BTC pipeline negotiator, who said that Russia was unhappy about the pipeline from its inception:<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"0000CC\"> &#8212;<\/font> <\/strong> <font color=\"FF0000\"> &#8220;When negotiating the pipeline, the Russian foreign minister told me: &#8216;We know you, and we do not like what you are doing.&#8217; They were not pleased that the BTC bypassed Russia and secured a transport route for oil from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey&#8221;<\/font> <strong><font color=\"0000CC\"> &#8212;<\/font><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,571855,00.html\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Morningstar added that the current Georgian conflict could create havoc with the BTC:<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"0000CC\"> &#8212;<\/font> <\/strong> <font color=\"FF0000\"> &#8220;If the Russians were to attain a dominant influence in Georgia, they could interfere with the pipeline from an economic standpoint &#8212; by raising transit fees&#8221;<\/font> <strong><font color=\"0000CC\"> &#8212;<\/font><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,571855,00.html\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/to\/pictures\/whisper.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In a geopolitical maneuver in 1997, Russia&#8217;s GAZPROM enlisted Turkey in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazprom.ru\/eng\/articles\/article8895.shtml\">joint pipeline effort <\/a>known as the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshore-technology.com\/projects\/blue_stream\/blue_stream2.html\">Blue Stream<\/a><\/em> project. <\/p>\n<p>In November 2005, <em>Blue Stream<\/em> was officially inaugurated in Turkey with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.axisglobe.com\/article.asp?article=489\"> Putin attending <\/a>the ceremonies. As of January 2007, Turkey had received well over 9.6 bcm of gas since the pipeline launch, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazprom.ru\/eng\/articles\/article8895.shtml\"> as reported<\/a> by GAZPROM.<\/p>\n<p><em>Now<\/em> Turkey must look into its own soul and decide who it needs more, Russia or NATO? <\/p>\n<p><center> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/to\/pictures\/rippleit2.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><strong><font size=\"4\" color=\"9900FF\">TURKEY SAYS &#8216;NO&#8217; TO US SHIPS<\/font><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"3\" color=\"009900\">TURKEY DENIED PASSAGE<\/strong><\/font> unto 2 US hospital ships navigating through the Turkish Straits into the Black Sea. Turkey claimed that the ships violated the <em>Montreux Convention Of 1936<\/em> which governs the traffic of military ships to the Black Sea. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Convention, military ships cannot exceed 45,000 tons. The tonnages of the 2 US ships both exceeded 69,000 tons making them ineligible for passage.<\/p>\n<p>Just prior to Turkey&#8217;s denial of the ships&#8217; passage, Russia\u2019s military chief, General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, warned Turkey that the NATO ships <em>presently<\/em> docked in the Black Sea &#8220;are a serious threat to our security.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Nogovitsyn reminded Turkey that under the <em>Montreux Convention<\/em> warships could only stay in the Black Sea for 21 days. <\/p>\n<p>Then General Nogovitsyn put Turkey on notice saying:<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"FF3300\"> &#8212;<\/font> <\/strong> <font color=\"3366FF\"> \u201cIf the NATO ships continue to stay in the Black Sea after the expiration of 21 day-period, then I would like to remind you that Turkey would be responsible\u201d<\/font><\/strong> <strong><font color=\"FF3300\">&#8212;<\/font><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/eldib.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/28\/russia-warns-turkey-on-us-ships-in-black-sea-turkey-is-refusing-us-naval-ships-access-to-georgia-via-the-black-sea\/\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/to\/pictures\/cohsay.jpg\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<em>Disregarding<\/em> the Montreux Convention&#8217;s <em>clear<\/em> provisions, Ariel Cohen, a Zionist Jew of the <em>Heritage Foundation<\/em>, a Pax Americana &#8220;think tank,&#8221; censured Turkey&#8217;s actions:<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"FF3300\"> &#8212;<\/font><\/strong> <font color=\"9900FF\"> &#8220;Turkey is our NATO ally and should have been more supportive of their American allies. This brings back the bad taste of Turkey barring American troops from going into Iraq through Turkish ports and Turkish territory in 2003 &#8211; a step that vastly damaged Turkish- American relations. I&#8217;d hoped we were putting that behind us&#8221;<\/font><\/strong> <strong><font color=\"FF3300\">&#8212;<\/font><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turkishdailynews.com.tr\/article.php?enewsid=113020\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ariel Cohen also knows that Turkey is an ally of the Zionist State of Israel. But with the pressure Turkey has been receiving from Russia these days, a faltering alliance between Turkey and Israel could soon become a &#8220;bad taste&#8221; in the mouth of Mr Cohen.  <\/p>\n<p><strong><center><font color=\"009900\">Methinks That Mr Cohen &#038; His <em>Pax Americana<\/em> Buddies<br \/>\nAre Going To Have Some More &#8220;Bad Tasting&#8221; News Very Soon&#8230;<\/font><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><font color=\"#ffff00\">___________________________________<\/font><\/strong><\/center><br \/>\n<font size=\"3\" color=\"#330033\" face=\"verdana\"><strong>For More See:<\/strong> <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\"> &#8220;Russia&#8217;s Threat To The Zionist West'&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=243\"><strong><font color=\"#ff6600\">Click Here<\/font><\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\"><strong>And:<\/strong> &#8220;Putin&#8217;s Move Into The Middle East&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=255\"><strong><font color=\"#ff6600\">Click Here<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>And:<\/strong> &#8220;Putin Trumps The Zionist West&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=229\"><strong><font color=\"#ff6600\">Click Here<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/to\/pictures\/bnrzn3.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">CLICK: <\/font><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brothernathanael.com\/\">Brother Nathanael! 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