U.S. diplomatic documents, which have just been made available by Wikileaks, the site analysis and strategic policy which specializes in the distribution of leakage, confirmed that the U.S. is concerned about the turn taken by the Turkish foreign policy today. Recall that, particularly since the beginning of his second term, the AKP government is developing a new diplomacy is very active in his regional area, leading many observers to suggest a shift in focus and a tendency to turn to the East.
Since 28 November, the Turkish press dissects so anything that can relate to Turkey and its leaders, in telegrams U.S. diplomatic updated. These show particularly severe criticism of Ankara's policy towards Israel and Iran. The foreign policy of the AKP government is particularly regarded as "neo-Ottoman" and telegrams show that U.S. officials increasingly squeezed out of the diplomatic guidance of Ankara. These revelations, however, are not really a surprise, as the U.S. administration showed its displeasure or exasperation, against Turkish initiatives in foreign policy, in recent months. We remember that in April 2010, shortly after the nuclear summit in Washington, the mood of the encounter between Barack Obama and Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Toronto, was described as "frosty" by the media, and only a few weeks later, Hillary Clinton had publicly thrashed the tripartite agreement signed by Iran, Brazil and Turkey, who wanted an alternative to sanctions that the United States prepared against Tehran.
Wikileaks's revelations are probably more interesting when they show the perception that those responsible American Turkish political changes underway. Thus, analyzing the foreign policy of the AKP, former U.S. ambassador to Ankara, James Jeffrey, said she is "increasingly focused on the Muslim world and Islamic traditions," but this does not mean that Turkey "will give up or abandon its traditional alliance with the West ...." The same analysis ambassador realizes that made his Israeli counterpart, the deterioration of his country's relations with Turkey. According to this analysis, the cause of the dispute between Turkey and Israel held the first Turkish prime minister, accused of being a "religiously fundamentalist who hates us" an opinion that James Jeffrey said after finally share have discussed both inside and outside government. Is also observed that the U.S. ambassador considers that "despite its success, the Turkish foreign policy has ambitions of Rolls Royce, but it has only the resources of a Rover," and he doubts the Turkey's capacity to pose as a rival to the EU in the Balkans, Russia or the Caucasus on the Black Sea, and even the Saudis, Egyptians and Iranians in the Middle East. "
Beyond these geopolitical considerations, the U.S. diplomatic telegrams deliver, as appropriate, their share of jokes and small quips. Thus, Recep Tayyip Erdogan described as a character with "overbearing pride" and "limitless ambition", and Abdullah Gul as "someone who has a vision much larger international anti-Western" that the Turkish prime minister. Most controversial and likely to cause a stir, are the remarks of U.S. officials who reported, for example, that the defense minister, Vecdi Gonul, Ahmet Davutoğlu would have spoken, Minister of Foreign Affairs, as a "dangerous individual" and that General Ergin Saygun, then number two in the Turkish army would have found that if the army had wanted to leave their tanks in the street after the first round of the 2007 presidential, she could have done .... More than the tensions between Ankara and Washington, the leakage of Wikileaks could well inflame political conflicts between Turkey and Turkish ...
JM
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