Turkey's Second Phase of Dismemberment: Unavoidable

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Turkey's Second Phase of Dismemberment: Unavoidable

 

- December 12, 2012

By Appo Jabarian

Executive Publisher/Managing Editor

USA Armenian Life Magazine

 

Much to Turkophiles' chagrin the coming networks and coalitions in a

multipolar world may deprive Turkey of massive economic aid at U.S.

taxpayers' expense keeping the Turkish state financially solvent.

 

Many economists agree that the so-called positive economic news and

reports mask Turkey's real economic and political troubles and it's

only a matter of time before the time bomb explodes in the face of

pro-Turkey neo-con propagandists.

 

A recent report from the U.S. National Intelligence Council focuses on

the possible `separation' of `Turkey's territorial unity' by 2030.

However the Intel Report under-rates several factors that can

contribute to expedited dismemberment of Turkey. In certain cases, it

over-rates Turkey.

 

The report also quarantines the 30 million Kurds of Turkish-occupied

Northeastern Kurdistan (Southeast of Turkey) in order to keep them

separate from other vibrant and determined anti-Turkey victim-peoples

and nations such as exiled Armenians of Turkish-occupied Western

Armenia (Wilsonian Armenia) and Armenian Cilicia; dispossessed Greeks

of Turkish-occupied Smyrna, Pontus, and Constantinople; deprived

Cypriots of Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus; and oppressed Arabs of

also Turkish-occupied Syrian Alexandretta.

 

Ironically, Turkey's Foreign Minister and Azerbaijan's President

disagree with US intelligence agencies' overlooking of the Armenian,

Greek, Cypriot and other factors in international politics.

 

On November 16, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev declared in Baku:

`I have repeatedly said and I want to repeat it in the open that the

Armenian lobby is our main enemy.'

 

In late 2010, at a time when he was searching for ways to render the

Armenian Diaspora `powerless' through the infamous Protocols with

Armenia, Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu lamented that some

of the Diaspora's actions were like `the sword of Damocles hanging

above our heads.'

 

Mr. Davutoglu's comments were followed by Turkey's Prime Minister

Recep Tayyip Erdogan being dealt with an official embarrassment in

Lebanon when Lebanese Armenians mounted a remarkable protest against

him.

 

Like much of the world, during the post-genocide era Lebanon has

become one of the hubs that connects world Armenians through their

unique transnational network.

 

Another powerful anti-Turkey people are the Greek Diaspora. Another

well connected transnational network, the Greeks collectively

represent a force to reckon with.

 

The Assyrian-Syriac Diaspora has already embarked on a campaign of

anti-Turkey activities in much of Europe and the Americas.

 

As for the Syrian factor, Turkey's ill-guided involvement in Syria

unwittingly fostered the emergence of a increasingly powerful new

player in Middle East - Kurdistan, bolstered by Syrian Kurdistan. It

also antagonized millions of moderate Syrian Muslim Sunnis, Alawites,

and Druze as well as Christians in Syria proper and around the world.

 

These and other factors point to a `malleable' future for what is now

called Turkey. They surely have the potential to play pivotal role in

Turkey's downward spiral into a seemingly inevitable second - and

probably final phase of dismemberment.

 

During the entire course of contemporary history of the last two

millennia, nearly all home-grown empires receded and somehow preserved

their nucleus states. The Roman Empire sprang out of Italy and receded

back to Italy; Prussian Empire receded back to Prussia (Germany);

Russian empire back to Russia; Byzantine Empire back to Greece; Arab

empire back to Arabia or Arab countries; and Persian Empire back to

Persia (Iran).

 

And what has happened to empires without local roots? One such empire

- Soviet Union completely disappeared. Why? It was pre-manufactured

and exported from outside and imposed on sixteen sovereign nations

located in the former Soviet space.

 

A second such `exported' empire has been the Turkish Ottoman Empire.

It was imposed by invading Seljuks from the steppes of Central Asia

that later renamed themselves `Ottoman Turks,' and dominated all of

Middle East, most of eastern Europe and parts of mid-Europe.

 

The Turkish Ottoman Empire already underwent the first phase of

dismantlement during and at the end of World War I. Its last vestige -

the modern Republic of Turkey escaped complete oblivion for over seven

decades. But it too is doomed to go through a similar process or at

best, `right-sizing.'

 

The second and final phase is inevitable. Why? Because victim nations

that have yet to liberate their lands in Western Armenia; Armenian

Cilicia; Greek Pontus; Greek Smyrna; Greek Constantinople; Northern

Cyprus; Medes-Kurdistan; Assyrian-Syriac Merdin; and Syrian Arab

Alexandretta continue to exist and to maintain a sustainable struggle

to ultimately liberate their ancestral lands from Turkish yoke.

 

Now the biggest Damocles' sword hanging on the head of officialdom

Turkey is the question, shall Ankara voluntarily settle the ongoing

cases with each and every victim people seeking justice, or expose the

Turkish state to uncontrolled final dismantling when regional

political tectonic plates collide in the coming years and decades?

 

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