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The G-Factor in Turkish-Russian relations

Simon Maghakyan on 15 Aug 2009

Turkey has been bullying the United States against recognizing the Armenian genocide by threatening all kinds of sanctions. But Russia, who has recognized the Armenian genocide, is Turkey’s biggest single trading partner.

There is no G-factor, thus, in Turkish-Russian relations.

3 Responses to “The G-Factor in Turkish-Russian relations”

barbarosaü on 16 Aug 2009 at 12:40 am #

Russia isn’t an ally. The U.S. on the other hand is and if it wants to remain one must act accordingly.
Raffi on 21 Aug 2009 at 3:38 am #

Ah, so that’s the thanks the US gets for saving Turkey from being gobbled up by Russia during the cold war. The US must lie, or at least obscure the truth, or pay the price.

Hey, if the US openly used the term genocide, starting tomorrow, Turkey would have a tizzy fit, and then, life would go on, just as it did with France, Switzerland, Sweden, Argentina, etc, etc. End of story. What other option would it have?
barbaros on 26 Aug 2009 at 9:20 pm #

Really good points there Raffi. You made the statement that the U.S. saved Turkey from the U.S.S.R. When did the Soviets ever threaten Turkey’s territorial integrity? One big reason the Treaty of Sevre wasn’t realized was, because of the Soviet support for Turkey. Who do you think supplied the weapons? It wasn’t the U.S., it wasn’t the French or the English. If it wasn’t Soviet weaponry Turkey wouldn’t exist today. Instead Anatolia would be carved up by Greeks and Armenians. Plus Turkey paid its full dept to the U.S. by helping it divide Korea during the Korean War, by risking nuclear war on its soil during the Cuban Missile Crisis, because it let the U.S. install 15 Jupiter medium-range ballistic missile armed with nuclear warheads, pointing at Moscow, thus becoming the only NATO country to ever face annihilation other than the U.S. And finally by helping bomb Serbia after the Cold War ended. So Turkish American relations aren’t like Turkey’s relations with Argentina or France. There will be no “tizzy fit”. Relations will be damaged beyond the point of return and the U.S. will lose a strong ally forever.