Thanks for the opinion piece, with an eye toward this opinion writer being a bit of a pro Israel Turk (if he is indeed a Turk).
Not sure how representative that opinion piece is of "the street" but it was a fun read anyway.
Thanks!
I liked these two tidbits the best:
... Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu keeps on saying that “[on Syria] Turkey has acted in line with the international community,” without specifying who the “international community” really is. We understand that nearly 3.5 billion Russians, Chinese, Indians, Iranians and Brazilians don’t count as the “international community.”
That got a modest grin out of me.
... there is another aspect to how the colorful Turkish rhetoric in justifying the passionate “let’s bomb Damascus wish” fails to impress even most pro-government Turks.
After the eighth mortar fell onto Turkish territory and killed five innocent Turks, the prime minister made it clear that this could not be an accident: “You don’t make a mistake eight times.”
He was right, but only selectively.
Politicians typically toss in a few facts amongst the usual crapola in order to shore up possible credibility. Not a trick unique to Turks.
