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Turkey: Claim we exposed Israel spy ring 'baseless'
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Published: 17.10.13, 20:54
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31. 29 dont think so
anton ,   istanbul   (10.18.13)
i am not mistaken at all, isreal and west is two diffrent entity , like i said turkey did not break anything with this exposure everything was alwaready broken when 9 turks got killed west knows the fued between turky and isreal since there isnt anything like that between her and eu or usa you can be sure intellegence sharin will continue one more time turkey doesnt has to do gestures to isreal
32. Anton - you must have made a mistake
David Israel ,   New York, USA   (10.18.13)
I believe you wanted to write Turkey and west are different After all Israelis and their culture are very much alike, in fact it is often referred as Judeo Christisn culture. Turks and in general Muslims have always been different and incompatible with the Judeo Christian culture. The most visible being the way Muslims treat women
33. David
anton ,   istanbul   (10.18.13)
whats culture got anythint to do with diffrences between west and isreal? isreal is middleeastern country most of its citizens europe originated that why you are saying you have western culture but nobody in west considers isreal to be western isreal has middle eastern mindset that where the mistake is whenever isreal gets in corner all i see here questions like "how west will react to it" west couldnt care less about isreals problems in fact i strongly belive west see isreal to be the center of problems they just cant say it yet that includes obama administration
34. Anton # 33
David Israel ,   New York, USA   (10.18.13)
Again you are wrong. Israel is in the middle east but in the center of the western civilization and western values. Just this year several Nobel prizes were awarded to Israelis proving one more time that modern positive science is embraced and actively being studied, furthered for the improvement of the entire world. These are much different than the Middle eastern standards where religious belief supersedes positive science. As far as west caring or not caring for Israel: It s not much different then west caring or not caring for Turkey or another state, it is all about each country's interests. Therefore when it comes to protecting her own citizens and existence Israel relies only on herself. Accordingly creates a strong army but more importantly strong diplomatic ties so strong that if it was not for Israel's + American Jews with Honorable Jak Kamhi's request today Turkey might still be under the US embargo and in economic distress.
35. David
anton ,   istanbul   (10.18.13)
david both of us interprate matters diffrently therefore its wrong to say iam wrong i dont say your wrong this is not a math where there is certain aswer for questions at hand the question here is israel western? i meant it politically as we are talking about political situation here you brought in culture science etc, israeli perople are good brilliant and productive i have said this before but israels leadership acts in accordance with her neighbours no country in europe gets labels like pariah or araprtheid state neither do get get un resolutions drafted against them just like israel, turkey has to protect her citizens and interest which bring us to another question why should turkey after learning there is a spy ring in the country do isreal a favour by keeping mum about it? especailly when both cuntry sees eachother almost like enemy i dont understand why are you tryin to defend israel here, if it was turkish spies caught in israel everyone of you here would be bashing turks
36. Anton #35
David Israel ,   New York, USA   (10.18.13)
You said that Israel is not part of the west is in ME. I explained to you that Israel may be geographically in the ME but is a western nation. That is culturally, politically and her interpretation of civilized values. As to why Turkey must not reveal the spies: For her own good. Israel had trusted Turkey with this sensitive information based on mutual agreements. These agreements protect the names of those spies from being revealed to anyone but especially to Israel's enemy. By breaking this agreement Turkey has proven to be a country that can not be trusted - at least under AKP. This is not the only incident for the world not to trust Turkey, Erdogan's betrayal of Assad, allowing the radar in Kurecik was seen as a betrayal to Iran and even Russia and the list can go on and on. And this was not the case of spies caught in Turkey, they were trusted to Turkey counting on agreements.
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