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To: tejek who wrote (255187)	10/13/2005 6:09:48 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571040

Not bad, Ted. Sometimes you happen to post right on :) Taro

To: tejek who wrote (255187)	10/14/2005 3:48:29 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 1571040

Re: Turkish paranoia combining with an author's financial ambitions playing into Europe's paranoia about Russia. LOL.... Actually, Europe's paranoia is all about North Africa and Turkey, that is, the frightening prospect of being swamped by hordes of Muslim immigrants. Russia, on the other hand, is viewed as a convenient energy supplier to hedge OPEC... Germany just signed a multibillion $ gas deal with Russia... Putin was in Belgium last week and pointed out that already 30% of Belgium's gas imports come from Russia. As for Turkish author Burak Turna, I suspect he's in cahoots with Turkish intelligence. Anyway, his scenario of an alliance between Turkey and, of all countries, Russia is... baffling! The Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow has considered itself as the heir of the Byzantine Empire ever since the fall of Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1453 and, accordingly, has deemed it its sacred mission to recover Constantinople... Turna's geopolitical fiction betrays Turkey's "isolation complex" --outside the Muslim world, that is. Hence the author's ludicrous plotline about a Russo-Turkish alliance. An alliance between Iran and Turkey is much more likely, if only to keep the Kurds in check.... Gus