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| Turkey Intel Predicts Demise Of M.E. States |
| 2007-01-17 |
| The Turkish intelligence community envisions the demise of Iraq and several other Middle East states by 2015. Turkish sources said the intelligence community has issued an assessment that predicted the collapse of several Middle East countries torn by ethnic and religious tension. The community has urged the government to prepare for such a scenario. "In this period that we are currently in, we will see the process by which many nations will lose the marathon of history," National Intelligence Organization Undersecretary Emre Taner said. Taner was reflecting a threat analysis drafted by the organization, known by its Turkish acronym, MIT. In an address on Jan. 5, Taner warned that several Middle East states could soon collapse, which would imperil Turkey as well. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 I think what they're trying to say is that Turkey stands ready to pick up the pieces and reestablish the Ottoman Empire. I can't wait for them to clash with the new Persian Empire. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-01-17 14:54 |
| #5 It might be a good thing if Iraq were to split, with Kurdistan forming a greater Kurdistan with their parts of Syria and Iran restored to them, and southern Arab Iraq united with Iranian Khuzestan. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-01-17 09:10 |
| #4 You don't think there will be any violence do you? That would be so uncharactaristic of the people and their religion. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-01-17 07:40 |
| #3 "And only a little boy could see that the Emperor is naked" |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-01-17 06:17 |
| #2 So would a collapse be more like Somilia or Yugoslavia? Sudan or Soviet Union? Or maybe peaceful, like Czechoslovakia? I suspect the study really means, "More money for my Ministry is required." |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-01-17 06:05 |
| #1 The Federated Kurdish States is not such an appealing prospect is it? |
| Posted by: phil_b 2007-01-17 01:15 |