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Turkey says goodbye to Europe – Analysis – News

It was a very unusual phenomenon for Davos – pompeznogo events taking place year after year in the alpine village. «You kill people!» – Exclaimed Turkish Prime Tayyip Erdogan to the Israeli president than razryadil unyluyu situation at the World Economic Forum. Elite audience – bankers and presidents, vpavshie anabiosis later in the global financial crisis, vstrepenulis.

Culture feeding Davos, is dead, wrote bored yesterday morning columnist «The Guardian». In politics returned human emotion, we will add today.

Turkey is once again becoming the leader of the Islamic world. On this show, and in the streets of Gaza, where today, thousands of Palestinians rushed to the Turkish flag. This talk of higher European offices. Parish leader proislamskoy party as Prime Minister evropeizirovannoy country, the long-standing strategic partner of Israel, a member of NATO, etc., etc. – mixed all the cards in the deck big political game. Erdogan yesterday became the voice of the East on the site of the Western world.

Does this mean that Turkey change the political course from West to East? Even the most modest analysts answer today rather positively. In an extreme case, Turkey will continue to demonstrate the desire of the EU, but only for the convenience of trade in the draft-type NABUCCO and continuing leadership role in the political game unfolding today before our very eyes.

Turkey has changed over the past year, during which the party of Erdogan military opposition unsuccessfully threatened court action, bans and coups. The country with the self-sustaining economy now showing more and more political autonomy. Against the backdrop of difficult negotiations with the International Monetary Fund, a group of Turkish businessmen under the leadership of President Abdullah Gul is going to Saudi Arabia to conclude contracts on bonds with the countries of the Persian Gulf. Increasing the supply of Iranian gas to Turkey. Official Ankara sign important economic agreements with Iran at the government level. And finally, the active participation of the Islamic Republic of lobbying in the project pipeline NABUCCO. According to the results of opinion polls, fewer and fewer adherents of entry into the EU among the Turkish population.

So it is very symbolic that this forum of economic bankruptcy Erdogan said: “For me, Davos ended. Henceforth, I am not come here “.

last emotion was caused by a replica workshop – Options The Washington post David Ignatiusa, out debate on the Palestinian Gaza, saying« It’s time for dinner »(ironically fate, the journalist appealed to the White House more often to listen to the voice of opponents). But remember that it is not dying, Davos has become a point of breaking the previous relationship. Acute discussion of Turkish and Israeli policy in the Economic Forum was preceded by the same events in Gaza, during which not a single Islamic politician not dare raise a voice against the Israeli army. Saudi fatwa on the permissibility of the sheikhs of jihad in Gaza, the allocation of billions of dollars blockaded Palestinian areas, political support for Hamas has followed the end of the Israeli massacre that took the lives of hundreds of innocent children and women. And in this circular silence leaders of Muslim countries, only Erdogan insisted the political leaders asked: «How can you turn a blind eye to the carnage in Gaza?».

Turkish leaders to act more than emotionally. «I have yet to be aware of what happened in Davos», – he admitted to a short press conference in the Alpine town. But today it is obvious one: a much greater loss remain today, Israeli leaders bezdarno not proschitavshie own political costs of the carnage in Gaza.