Erdogan promises Iran Turkish intelligence aid against Israel
Debka: In the secret part of their talks in Tehran on Oct. 28, DEBKAfile’s military sources reveal that Turkish prime minister Tayyep Recep Erdogan and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad struck military cooperation deals which promised Iran Turkish military intelligence and air force assistance against a possible Israeli attack on its nuclear sites.
Their understandings have bound Turkish to pass intelligence data to Tehran on potential Israeli preparations for a strike and on US military movements in the Middle East for providing backup. Our sources report that the details finalized in meetings between the Turkish and Iranian military specialists in Istanbul Monday, Nov. 9, were due to be sealed by presidents Abdullah Gul and Ahmadinejad Tuesday. The Iranian president is to be in Turkey as guest of the Islamic Conference.
The Turkish prime minister has not only buried his country’s longstanding military and intelligence ties with Israel but climbed aboard the adversarial axis confronting the Jewish state. Turkey has agreed to round out the forward surveillance outposts encircling Israel’s borders: Hamas from the southwest in Gaza, Syria in the east, Lebanon in the north and now Turkey from the northwest. Tehran is banking on this encirclement for early warning of an approaching Israeli strike and any supportive American movements.
According to Western intelligence sources in Ankara, heads of the Turkish army objected to their government’s strategic turn to Iran and the cutoff of its ties with Israel. However its pro-Islamic leaders, which have gradually eased the army out of policymaking, have forced them to accept operational ties with the military of an anti-Western Middle Eastern nation as being in the nation’s best interests.
Erdogan’s most compelling argument is that President Barack Obama’s secret proposal for Iran to deposit 400 kilos of its enriched Iran in Turkey for safekeeping in charge of International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, had elevated Turkey to an enhanced role as a broker between the US and Iran, sanctioned by Agency director Mohamed ElBaradei. If Turkey, a member of NATO, was able to gain the Iranian regime’s trust, the Turkish prime minister maintained, it was only thanks to the military understandings he reached in Tehran.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that word of the Turkish-Iranian military collaboration deal landed with shocking effect in Washington and Jerusalem. They had not forewarned by their intelligence services that Erdogan was willing to go as far as this to ally Turkey with the Islamic regime.
November 11th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
I’m willing to say that the last paragraph is the main reason why a news black
out was imposed over the Netanyahu-Obama meeting in Washington.
This is highly sensitive, and frankly any interpretation outside of prudent parameters can bring about a nightmare scenario, or something approaching it.
November 11th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Dark days ahead for Bibi and Obama and the West while the plot thickens as Iran draws closer to making good on threats w/a “big stick” that carries a bang….2010 will be very telling year, imo.
November 11th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
When Israel is miracleously spared nuclear alienation as threatened by Iran who will attempt to make it good…all will know it was God’s hand alone who did this and not “karma ” or “luck.” I believe it is coming…Turkey will not have clean hands here and will be knee deep in divine discipline.
November 13th, 2009 at 8:49 am
I felt that we would not see Ezekiel 38-39 happen until Turkey turned against Israel. In three short months we have seen Turkey go from a NATO allie to an Iranian allie completing the coalition force mentioned in Ezekiel.
It seems now that the only thing remaining is “the hook” in the jaw that will draw them together to the mountains of Israel.
God bless His chosen people Ysrael and protect with His mighty right hand.