Arpa Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 Ali, Ahmet. What is the difference? Take a good look at this picture, it may be the last time you see it. http://www.armenianow.com/?action=viewArti...231&lng=eng Read the rest here; Architect.....etc. http://www.asbarez.com/#AMC=Open&ASBSC=Open Apparently Ali was not enough islamist and anti-Armenian. Architect of Turkey's Expanding Foreign Policy Appointed Foreign Minister in Cabinet Reshuffle ANKARA (Combined Sources)--Turkey's prime minister reshuffled the bulk of his Cabinet Friday, appointing the chief architect of the country's increasingly active role in the Middle East and Caucasus as his new foreign minister. Erdogan named his foreign policy adviser Ahmet Davutoglu to replace Ali Babacan as foreign minister, with Babacan becoming economy minister. Davutoglu, 50, is considered to be the force behind Turkey's policy of cultivating closer ties with the Islamic world and the Middle East. He mediated several rounds of indirect talks between Syria and Israel last year. ===== www.asbarez.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted May 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 I couldn't resist. I'm sure this belongs under the topic of Comedistan. And now, davut-ian/davit-ian replaces babajan-ian? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Opening of the border is a bit premature. While the Armenian side offered negotiations without preconditions, the Turkish side put forward (not without consultations with Washington) 3 major preconditions which by default cannot be satisfied, not now not after 100 years. That said, all these maneuvers on Turkish part, had exactly the opposite outcome. Turkey cannot enter EU with closed borders, she cannot enter without sorting out Cyprus and Aegean, and finally they have at least 20-50 years work to be done to restore the property of the exiled Armenians and to pay compensations for the "great tragedy". The party that really should put forward pre-conditions is Armenia, because opening of the border will be a gift to the West, which has great dollar value (i.e. the shortest way to get to the dollar rich emerging markets in Middle Asia). Georgia will be in trouble for the decades to come, same goes for Azerbaijan. All these mini-empires carved by Stalin will eventually go into oblivion, while Armenia is the only country in the region that has no internal ethnic problems (98% of the population are Armenians, thank you Turkey:)) So, in short the opening of the Armenian border (i.e. the most internally stabile country in the region) must come with proper price tag. Meanwhile the Armenian government should concentrate on economy growth and reduction of poverty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted May 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 (edited) OK! All you romantics. What do you think about this from Panorama? Is it any different if it is Ali or Ahmet? Is it any different if it is Hamid, enver, talaat or gakaturk, erdogan or "yeztrikan"?. === FOREIGN MINISTER OF TURKEY CHANGES FOREIGN POLICY OF HIS COUNTRY Ahmet Davutoglu’s nomination as the Foreign Minister of Turkey is good for Armenia, Ruben Safrastyan, the director of the Eastern Studies Institute told reporters. “He wishes to emphasize the regional diplomacy of Turkey reducing west oriented policy of his country. Hence, his catchword is zero problems with the neighbors,” Safrastyan said. The new Turkish Foreign Minister changes the basic accentuates of Turkey’s foreign policy. According to him Turkey should make efforts to become the ally of the regional countries, instead of being the one with Europe, West and USA. Ruben Safrastyan says he is sure the Turkish Foreign Minister will make efforts for Turkey to make ties with Armenia without preconditions. Source: Panorama.am Edited May 12, 2009 by Arpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 Actually, the new Turkish foreign minister views do not differ from his predecessor. Turkish and American politics are very much alike. They don't change. It is just PR operations for the masses. Devitugly or whatever his name is, said that Turkey's EU bit is unchanged and that Turkey will not accept anything less than full membership in EU. I do not see why we should not support Turkey into getting in EU. When exactly anything good happened to Armenia thanks to Europe? Oh, yes the Genocide declarations...when they exhaust all "cons" against Turkey in vane, they flash the Genocide trump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 when they exhaust all "cons" against Turkey in vane, they flash the Genocide trump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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