{"id":22164,"date":"2010-09-20T06:36:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T04:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=22164"},"modified":"2014-01-05T20:45:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T18:45:53","slug":"united-states-laid-ground-for-ergenekon-deep-state-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/09\/20\/united-states-laid-ground-for-ergenekon-deep-state-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"United States laid ground for Ergenekon \u201cDeep State\u201d in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"WMR has discovered a\u00a0formerly Secret document from the U.S. Department of State <\/span>that confirms the United States not only supported the Turkish military coup that ousted the nation\u2019s democratically-elected government in 1980 but actively supported the military-imposed Turkish Constitution as \u201creformist.\u201d<\/p>\n

The citizens of Turkey recently voted in a referendum and approved 26 constitutional amendments that will transform Turkey into a democratic state without the threat of the military and national security state-affiliated judiciary trumping the power of the Parliament and the people. Neocons have condemned the referendum as a threat to secularism in Turkey and a move to an Islamic state. However, the neocons and their allies in Israel are concerned that a Mossad -and CIA-imposed Turkish \u201cDeep State\u201d has finally seen its power\u00a0largely destroyed\u00a0with the impending adoption of a new Turkish Constitution. The referendum, which passed with 58 percent of the vote, is a victory for the Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.<\/p>\n

Many of the roots of the creation of the most recent variant of the Turkish Deep State, known as Ergenekon, can be seen in the State Department policy paper dated September 5, 1981<\/strong>, and titled \u201cUSG Policy toward Turkey.\u201d<\/strong> When the State Department document was drafted, Turkey\u2019s military junta leader, General Kenan Evren<\/strong>, was drafting the present Turkish Constitution. The 1981\u00a0Turkish military draft Constitution\u2019s \u201creforms\u201d\u00a0were referred to in the State Department\u00a0policy document\u2019s author Lawrence Eagleburger<\/strong>, the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs: \u201cIt is too early to judge whether the fundamental GOT reforms, now in place or in prospect, will succeed.\u201d<\/strong> The document also\u00a0talks about the \u201crelief\u201d provided to the United States by the 1980 military coup: \u201cThe military takeover of September 1980 brought temporary relief and for the moment broke the back of radical movements \u2014 including pro-Islamic ones \u2014 which had come to the fore in the 1970s.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eagleburger signaled his and the Reagan administration\u2019s support for the Turkish junta because of the same bogus reasons that neocons today criticize the Erdogan government: the bogeyman of Turkish Islamic political power. Eagleburger warned that Turkey could \u201cdrift away from NATO and Western-style government; alignment with Middle East states which supply oil and markets; possibly even neutralism growing out of accommodations with the USSR.\u201d Today, the neocons, Israelis, and their Ergenekon allies in Turkey argue the same points in demonizing the Turkish government: that Turkey is drifting from NATO, that it is turning to oil suppliers and markets like Iran, and has a growing relationship with Russia.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Eagleburger then outlines how the Reagan administration would cement U.S. ties with Turkey to prevent the above scenarios from being realized. He writes: \u201c . . . the Turkish-American relationship has no natural constituency in terms of shared history, economic interdependence, ethic or family ties. The absence of a \u2018Turkish lobby\u2019 in the United States is indicative.\u201d<\/strong> Two of the\u00a0recipients of the Eagleburger document would later help fill the void and help create the American Turkish Council (ATC)<\/strong>, a lobby group patterned after their friends at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)<\/strong>. Those two recipients of the Eagleburger document were Richard Perle<\/strong>, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, and Paul Wolfowitz<\/strong>, Director of Policy Planning at the State Department. Other recipients of the Eagleburger policy document on Turkey included Robert Hormats<\/strong>, the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs [and who is now the Undersecretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs under Hillary Clinton]; Ronald Spiers<\/strong>, the director of the State Department\u2019s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, former U.S. ambassador to Turkey <\/strong>from 1977 to 1980; and the prospective U.S. ambassador to Pakistan; Richard Burt<\/strong>, the Director of Politico-Military Affairs for the State Department; and Nicholas Veliotes<\/strong>, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0nature of the bilateral U.S.-Turkish relations were described as a \u201cbest effort\u201d to help Turkey in all respects, including an \u201cunderstanding\u201d of Turkey\u2019s position in Greek-Turkish issues and dealing with \u201cArmenian terrorism.\u201d In 1981, Armenia was a constituent republic of the USSR. Today, it is \u201cKurdish terrorism\u201d that plagues Turkey since Armenia is now an independent state with a natural and politically-powerful constituency in the United States. The Eagleburger document describes the Evren junta as perceiving the Reagan administration as making a \u201cbest effort\u201d in providing financial support to Turkey from Washington\u2019s \u201cweighing in\u201d on the \u201cInternational Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Saudis, and other potential donors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eagleburger also warns of \u201cnettlesome\u201d issues that could adversely affect U.S. relations with the Turkish junta, for example, \u201cCongressional badgering on Cyprus, on relations with Greece, on the\u00a0pace of return to democracy<\/strong>, and an Armenian niche in the proposed Holocaust Museum.\u201d<\/p>\n

The United States, through an alliance with Israel and its influence peddlers in Washington<\/em>, would ensure that the Turkish pace of democracy<\/strong> would not return to normal<\/strong> until the recent approval by the Turkish people of a new constitution that will eradicate the Turkish junta\u2019s military \u201creforms\u201d championed by Eagleburger and his band of proto-neocons in the Reagan administration in 1981. Attempts over the past eight years by Ergenekon\u00a0to overthrow the AKP government failed and with the new constitutional changes, Ergenekon\u2019s and Israel\u2019s ability to influence events in Turkish politics have been curtailed,<\/em><\/strong> save for the continuing threat of covert Israeli provocation\u00a0of terrorism involving the Kurds<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0Wayne Madsen Report, \u00a0Sept 18, 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WMR has discovered a\u00a0formerly Secret document from the U.S. Department of State that confirms the United States not only supported the Turkish military coup that ousted the nation\u2019s democratically-elected government in 1980 but actively supported the military-imposed Turkish Constitution as \u201creformist.\u201d The citizens of Turkey recently voted in a referendum and approved 26 constitutional amendments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":70300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,211,148,34],"tags":[1069,1100,957,78,5720,3684,3679,905,2140,3681,3682,1892,3683,3678],"class_list":["post-22164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","category-cyprus-trnc","category-israel","category-usa","tag-aipac","tag-armenian-terrorism","tag-cia","tag-ergenekon","tag-kenan-evren","tag-kurdish-terrorism","tag-lawrence-eagleburger","tag-mossad","tag-paul-wolfowitz","tag-richard-perle","tag-ronald-spiers","tag-the-american-israel-public-affairs-committee","tag-the-american-turkish-council","tag-usg-policy-toward-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}