If erdogan goes on with his irresponsible realignement policy he will isolate Turkey, polarize turkish society, allienate minorities, promote extremism, ruin the economy, and tear apart the state that with hard work has been built by the secular community. Obama is regarded as weak by erdogan and he will go on with his provocation policies.

HISTORY IS JUST REPEATING AGAIN. READ THE MEMOIRS OF LEE KWAN YEW, YOU WILL KNOW. SIMILARLY, TURKEY STABING YISRAEL ! AMERICANS HAVE EYES TO SEE. ANY YOU AMERICANS BEEN ARMTWISTING ISRAEL.

But,a little word: Lula was not like that.He had a sudden change in his attitudes very recently,and the only explanation is that he has sold his soul ,and the Brasilian people, in order to gain the next elections(actually it is a woman who is in the race,but this woman is just his pupet). I think he is using this all "palestian"bs as an aglutinator.He is attempting to aglutinate the electors around with the feeling of hate,using to so a cause that is a foreigner cause that is mediaticaly powerful nowadays(disgracefuly). He must also be receiving a high money for that from Iran,and he has ambitions to a high post at UN. Mind you,Lula baddly speaks his own language but intends to understand other nations questions. It is ridiculous!He is simply ridiculous!

US believed "Turkey shared US concerns about a nuclear Iran" - what an astonishing statement. Turkey has thrown in their lot with the Iranians. The flotilla was Turkey's initiation into that fraternity.

time for western countries to reevaluate relationship with turkey

has Iran attacked aid ship while the people there were asleep?

It is shameful for Lebonan who did not voted against sanctions Other countries lost their chances to avoid nearing economic crisis which might be eased thanks to business with Iran Chinise vote sold for an economic report which threatened China with currency manipulator now you may assume it will not touch China

that is going to let a crazy Tayyip to sail into Gaza with a naval escort.

Turkey is a member of NATO and so every word in NATO HQ goes straight to Tehran and Pyongyang! Watch your backs NATO members. You have the enemy within!

and why would Turkey back undecided UNSC? for calling on Israel ...and Turkey! to cooperate with independent credible impartial inquiry? then, who will force Israel to cooperate? the people who will enforce the embargo on Iran? the US supports the UNSC instead of forcing its resolution on Israel because of "delicate position Washington finds itself in".

What do you really expect from Turkey? It's an arab country, more or less moderated, but arab. And it's muslim, more radical every day passes. It don't respect human rights, its face is smiling always to west and its hand is smashing everyone who tries to 'rebel'. Flotilla's affair was the one who filled the glass; thus, Turkey must be considered (as it should be done from ever) as a menace, both by NATO and EU. By now, as #1 said, Israel is the only civilised country in ME.

saying yes to all stupidness of Israeli Government !

Turkey forgets that UN Security Council Resolution 1929 is the a diplomatic solution to the crisis, the alternative is preemptive strike on their enrichment facilities.

Erdogan has visions.... becoming the Dear . Chairman of Islamists....from the Kafkas to Mauritania. These are the bounds of his Islamist megalomania. His dream consists on the realization of an IU ( Islamists Union) . He cherishes Ahmadinejad, as long as he learns from him how to play with that "Weak Obama".

Until now. WOW!!! People who post here sure have a great deal of knowledge. Just one more thing Antonio: Do us a favor and go check the Arabian Peninsula on the internet and see for yourself the list of arabic countries in the mideast.

to Saudi Arabia to stretch a friendly hand to the Muslim world and apologize (although it is not clear yet for what!!)... Is Obama naive, inexperienced, lacking knowledge of the region or all of the above...??!! P.S. And we haven't discussed yet his built-in hostility to the nation-state of the Jewish people!!!

As you know most of them can not show their capital on the map :)

Hmmm ... let's see: Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Libya, Egypt ... well, perhaps world maps in Austria are different from the rest of the world and must be updated ... Was your last world map from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, perhaps?

Arabic countries. Get that into your thick skull. The only non arabic countries in the mideast are: 1-iran 2-turkey 3- Afghanistan and pakistan. End of story. There happy now???

Kurdistan, Armenia, Coptic, Darfur, Berberia, Saharawi, Phoenicia, Babylonia, Judea, Samaria, Aza .......... No wonder that you ignore all the oppressed native peoples and give priority to foreign Muslim occupiers...coming from Hitler's birth country

u.s. has to accept the opinion of turkey and brasil. turkey and brasil were perhaps also once dissappointed of the us. dissappointment is nothing particulairly, it belongs to everybody"s life, like setbacks and successes..

Is kurdistan a country? No -Please go check and see for yourself and see if Armenia is part of the Mideast or not. - Do we have an existing country known as Babylonya today?? Do we???? -What about Phoenicia? Does it exist now adays? Do they have a language separate of Arabic?? No they don't. As for judea and samaria,if you check my post, I did include the whole country of israel as a separate form from the arabic countries surrounding it. Seems that Americans can't even read a geographical map. No wonder you chose the likes of G.W.Bush. And become the laughing stock of the whole world.

Civilization is not hiding women inside black veils, it is not at all to imprison university professors, writers, journalists and doctors in Silivri jail without any charges. You know by now what the captain of the Mavi Marmara said in his interrogation: He said that ther was a group of people who had smuggled disk cutters into the ship. They used them to cut the steel rods in the ships deck to be used as arms to attack the IDF soldiers. he tried to stop (as it is the captains duty) but not successful. Is this what you believe civiisation is? Look at all other ships which were not Turkish. No incidents there because they knew how to protest in a civilized way while the one group in the Turkish boat was not. BUNU DA YUZUNUZE GOZUNUZE BULASTIRDINIZ. Now you can be proud.

Of course there are some American's who are not well educated. But all in all more Americans travel around the world for pleasure and business and many to the most remote parts that no one goes. A bigger percentage of American's know about the world theh Turks. Do you believe that a Turk living at a village near Amasya who maybe never saw the sea in his life knows where is Peru? Be honest.

Although I am born and raised in Tirkey even I did not know that Turks and Arabs were the same but if you read the Turkish Prime ministers latest comments about Turkey and Arabs you would think that Turks are Arabs. If the Turkish PM can say "Turkey can not do without Arabs and Arabs can not do without Turks because we are like the finger and the fingernail' don;t blame Antonio for his misunderstanding, blame PM Erdogan.

David do not explain me Jews, i know them very well. Every year thousand of jews comes to Turkey to the holiday villages and everybody sees your civilization there..Arrogant ,selfish and unrespectful people. At least me and my friends experiences says so, it doesnt mean all the jews are like this. We are not forcing any women to get in to the veils, this is a choice of them, you have lived here and you have seen many unveiled women here as well.Do not explain me journalists and writers. Maybe it is not happening in Israel because your civilization is only for yours, jews not for the others.In America there are still death penalty, we banned it many years ago, go and critisice a bit your big brother...

Do not compare us with Ameericans i their culture is only 200-300 years old. We are a civilization thounsand years old. We do not have a land 60 years old.