Obama Warns Turkey of Straining Ties with “Israel”, Supporting Iran

Local Editor

According to the London-based Financial Times, US President Barak Obama warned Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan, that if Turkey continues straining its relations with "Israel" and supporting Iran, then it would jeopardize an arms deal with Washington.

A Senior US administration official told the daily, "The president has said to [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan that some of the actions that Turkey has taken have caused questions to be raised on the Hill [Congress] ... about whether we can have confidence in Turkey as an ally".

These stances come along after Turkey's relation with "Israel" has been deteriorating since the "Israeli" 2008-2009 aggression on Gaza, which the Turkish stance was strictly against.

Yet the relation between both sides reached the lowest level after the "Israeli" deadly assault on the Turkish-led Freedom Flotilla humanitarian convoy to Gaza, which resulted in the martyrdom of nine Turkish activists, and wounded tens other.

From then Turkey attempted to freeze all diplomatic relations with "Israel", unless it finds itself guilty and receives penalty for the brutal crime it conducted.

With what is related to the US, Turkey at the same time is on a great support to the Iran, especially regarding its nuclear program, where it recently said it would support gasoline sales to Iran.

This comes clearly despite the US and EU imposed sanctions that forbid any country to deal with Iran in its nuclear program, yet Turkey finds it peaceful and has the right to choose.

Iran has repeatedly declared that its nuclear program is peaceful; especially that it is a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty and under the supervision of the UN nuclear watchdog.