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Metal Firtina
Metal Storm is the title of a Turkish "á la Clancy" bestseller. Al Jazeera abstracts:
The novel, set in May 2007, begins when Turkish troops deployed in northern Iraq to protect the ethnic Turkish Turkmen community there, come under attack from US forces.
A huge disinformation campaign launched by Washington has people thinking that the Turks fired first, while the true aim of the United States is to seize Turkey’s rich borax mines, which account for 60% of the world’s boron production.
Turkey’s major cities come under heavy fire, with huge loss of life, while Ankara, taken by surprise, turns to the European Union and Russia for help.
The Christian Science Monitor and the Chicago Tribune also have reviews.
The current anti-Americanism in Turkey, the scathing anti-Turkish Wall Street Journal piece by Robert L. Pollack and this sane reply are not pointing to better relations.
In Executive Order, published 1996, Tom Clancy narrated an airliner crashing into Capitol Hill. Then came 9/11. Metal Storm has a Turkish agent, acting on his own revenge initiative, detonating a nuclear bomb in a park in Washington. Just tin foil hat stuff?
I am afraid it is much more serious. If Washington allows a quasi autonomous Kurdistan, with a resourceful oil capital Kirkuk, to emerge, Turkey’s eastern Kurdish parts will go up in flames (as will Kurdish parts of Iran and Syria). Ankara can not just stand by and let this happen.
Hi,Colman,Blackie and b.Sorry,I have been overworking these days so I couldn’t have time to check your mails until tonight.Colman,as you know Crusaiders made 7 attacks to holly lands(for all 3 big religions).But I am not sure if you know exactly what has happened to those Crusaiders.Let me tell you,every time Turks(mostly Seljuklus and sometimes some other Turkish tribes)have beaten all Crusaider armies.That is why Crusaiders made so many tortures in Jerussalem and some other cities in the holy land.Because they were angry to Turks who have atacked them on the way to holly lands.Turks will never be forgotten by Christian world especially western world Colman.There are so many reasons.I have already told you one of them,the nation to stop Crusaiders or the nation who made Christians to get united as Crusaiders.Another reason is Turks have ruled the world as a superpower lie USA today for more than 400 years during Ottoman Empire(I do not count the first 100 and last 200 years of it).Turks were controlling all Europe,all French,Italian,Spanish,German,English sailors had to give money and gold to Turkish navy when they were passing through Mediterrenean or from Ottoman lads.Ottoman Sultan was een interfering European countries’ kings.Vienna my friends,Christian world can not forget that Mslim urks were nearly entering to Vienna and hey all knew that if Vienna would have been captured then the est of the world would be captured.Finallt Turks are the only nations outside Europe which European Imperialists have never occupied.They have tried it after the 1st World War but again Turkey has shown a significant role.Turkey was the first country who has sopped imperialism and kicked away from its country in its weakest days.And his has been a moral to other invaded countries like India,Algeria,Morocco,Tunisia,Libya,Egypt,etc.All of us know hat all Moroccons,Tunisians,Libians,etc were having ATATURK’s pictures in their pockes wen they were fighting against Italians or English or French.We have so many reasons my friends for European christians not to want Turkey.But logically EU has much more benefits hen loss if they unite with Turkey.You are right Colman.Benefits are more for EU.But to be honest,I believe EU will not accept urkey and urkey will create a new world for itself.Already many people ae talking about a EUROASIAN UNION with Russia,Ukrain,Turkey,India,China,Iran,Pakistan and all Middle Asian Turkish Republics like Azerbaijan,Kirghizistan,Kazakhistan,Uzbekistan,Turkmenistan and may be some oher former Soviet Union Republics.2-3 years ao may people from urkey were laughing about this idea but mos of them find it much more logical,much more reasonable and much more honourable.Allways Turkey is left alone against Sothern Greek Republic of Cyprus,allways Turkey is left alone about nonsense Greek statements,allways especially France accusing Turkey with Armenian genocide.So,when do you think this can continue?We are 70 million.60 million of this population is below 40 years old and are all hardworking people.We all fed up from double facings of especially USA,FRANCE,ENGLAND,GERMANY and ITALY.But we are all sre hat this stupid game,I mean a government which does not represent Turkish will being a toy of EU and USA will end soon and when a government which think and talks like ordinary Turkish citizens then EU and SA will be sorry to loose a real friend.But it will be so late.
This book,I mean METAL FIRTINA helped Turkish people to open their eyes and start thinking more about who are we,where we are going,what they are ding to our country and nation.And this was sth which CIA was not expecting because they just wanted to destroy Turks belief to their country and their army.But this book caused the reverse.I still insist that this book is a CIA operation.Regrards to all of you.
Posted by: CETIN | Mar 3 2005 22:04 utc | 32
Well got to read the book, but I cant say that it was a new point of view on this matter, since the 90’s I constantly buy a magazine which is called “Defence and Aerospace, Strategy” which every now and then, has an extra labeled “Conspiracy Theory”.
I remember reading an artcile writen by a retired Turkish general,he wrote exactly what and how things will happen 10-15 years into the future with the US, EU and NATO.
He also commented that the economic crisis that Turkey would face in the future (and faced a couple years later), will be directly linked to a freak NATO meeting that had happened and he he had heard from a fellow US general, on “How to deal with an un-attackable friendly country in the Meditaranean” I wont go into the details to much but many things that have happened since then
agree 100% to what he wrote. This book somehow reminded me of this generals conspiracy theory.
A US – Turkey war wouldnt be the fantasy that is described in some of the writings that I have read here written above, as no nation with brains who has enough military weight, North, South and East of Turkey would support such a thing.
Regardless if this did happen. I would love to see the shock on the faces of the US-Strategists, as now days Turkey is being forced to make its own military pacts and doctarines, which will most probably be in 3 variants, containing only Black Sea countries (aka Black Sea Forum), or just Russia, Kazakistan, China, Korea (Asian Union), or even a Arab / Islamic Union, either of which will lead to the military unique’ness equipment used in Turkey through various bought and produced technologies.
Nuclear Bomb in a city in the US, is a cowards way of fighting and does not in any way suit the Turkic ways. If a US city will be raised by turkics it would be by pure military occupation.
The kurds, have a right to call themselves whatever they want, and they have a right to gain money and land; to practically sell out to and be protected by symphatising foreign nations that have agendas in the countries that these people reside in.
Unfortunately for the kurdic ethnicities involved in such things and with false hopes, neither an Turk, nor a Persian, nor an Arab whatever be their ethnic origins can not and will not tolerate self-righteousness and the dividing of their countries for the cause of these peoples. In any scenario, the area will have to be stabilized, by countries of this area.
For the Turkic nationalists, and the so be Kemalists, I advize you to forget these notions completely, as these are solely European notions their history and present day is blotted with it.
Turks were forced into these feelings as there wasnt any other way when the Ottoman lands were shrunk, in the aftermath of WW1.
But whilst the European countries slayed, converted and edicted people of different ethnicities and religions. We as Ottomans, or Turkey accepted them and live with these different peoples as our own ever since, be they be Spanish Jews, Russian Staroobratsi, Turks,bosniaks,bulgars from Bulgaria or ex-Yugoslavia.. Nationalism destroys our culture, as it should be on understanding and acceptance of cultures and ways to improve and add to our own.
Posted by: Makedon | May 2 2006 11:55 utc | 68
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