24/12/16

What the Assassination of the Russian Ambassador May Be Telling Us about Erdoğan’s Turkey

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The assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey in an Ankara art gallery on December 19 was a dramatic event in every way.  The ambassador had just begun speaking to the audience when a man pacing behind him, neatly dressed in coat and tie and appearing perhaps to be part of his entourage, suddenly pulled out a pistol and fired nine shots into the ambassador.
The low-key cultural event, the opening of an exhibit of photographs entitled, “From Kaliningrad to Kamchatka: Russia Through the Eyes of Travelers,” had a greater significance: it marked the first such public appearance of the Russian ambassador since November 2015 when the Turkish air force’s downing of a Russian military jet near the Turkish-Syrian border had triggered a severe crisis in relations between the two countries. That crisis lasted until Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made an uncharacteristically apologetic overture to Russian President Vladimir Putin this past summer. The ambassador’s public appearance at the art gallery was a sign of the restoration of normal relations between the two countries. Still more significant was the fact that the assassin struck on the eve of a planned meeting in Moscow between the foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey, and Iran. The agenda for that meeting was the situation in Syria.
That situation, the assassin made clear, was the reason for the ambassador’s death sentence. “We die in Aleppo, you die here,” he shouted as the diplomat lay bleeding on the floor.  Since July of this year, the Syrian city of Aleppo has been the site of an epic siege. The Syrian Army, backed by Russian air support and Iranian-led militias, are now on the verge of taking the whole of the city from the Syrian armed opposition and thereby dealing those rebels a decisive defeat. The plight of the rebels in Aleppo has received extensive attention in the West, and media coverage there has portrayed the tactics of the Assad regime and the supporting Russian expeditionary force as exceptionally brutal. Earlier this month the mayor of Paris even had the Eiffel Tower go dark to show solidarity with the besieged Aleppines. Inside Turkey, coverage has been no less intense, and the proximity of the war has amplified the passions connected to it.
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  1. Διεξοδική ανατομική ανάλυση υψίστου ενδιαφέροντος.Διδάσκει ότι, χωρίς ρωσική αναχαίτιση, η επιθετικότητα κατά της χώρας μας (Νήσων-Αιγαίου- Θράκης) θα συνεχισθεί, ενταθεί, εκραγεί, στην αγωνιώδη προσπάθεια του Ερντογάν να μεταστρέψει την στόχευση των εξημμένων εθνικιστικών ενστίκτων από την απαγορευμένη πλέον μεσανατολική εστία.

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