PNN – Famous Turkish diplomat Namaqtan believes that the country’s diplomatic system’s understanding of policies of America in the world and the region has serious problems and challenges.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, the powerful battle of the Islamic Republic of Iran against the Zionist regime and the United States has been widely reflected in the media of the region.
In the meantime, Turkish analysts have also commented on the importance of recent developments and believe that Turkey should also carefully evaluate and analyze America’s behavior in the region once again.
Namektan, one of the famous Turkish diplomats, is one of the analysts who commented on the current state of Ankara-Washington relations and believes that the country’s diplomatic system’s perception of American policies in the world and the region has serious problems and challenges.
He believes that Hakan Fidan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Erdoğan’s cabinet, does not have a complete view of American foreign policy, and on the other hand, Tom Barak, the new American ambassador in Ankara and Trump’s representative in the Syrian case, has a different approach towards Türkiye.
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Namektan, who previously held the Turkish embassy in Washington as one of Erdogan’s confidants and played an important role in the architecture of Turkey’s foreign policy, has joined the ranks of Erdogan’s critics and opponents for several years and is now one of the representatives of the People’s Republic Party in the Turkish Parliament.
We will review your critical comments about Türkiye-US relations:
From Fidan’s point of view, from Barak’s point of view
In recent weeks, we have seen many times that Tom Barak repeated these two claims: On this side of the square, we saw that the most important concern of Hakan Fidan was to make sure that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was invited to the White House and meet with Donald Trump there.
First that all the actors in the region will focus on Trump and Washington. Second, America will avoid interventionism and will not interfere in the internal affairs of countries, regardless of their governance style.
On this side of the square, we saw that the most important concern of Hakan Fidan was to make sure that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was invited to the White House and meet with Donald Trump there.
Maybe that’s why they gave special privileges to the new American ambassador. Including the fact that he was invited to the presidency very soon and gave his credentials to Erdogan, and secondly, that he started his duties quickly; But according to the custom of newly arrived ambassadors, he did not rush to go to Kemal Atatürk’s grave.
Barak Deir went to visit Atatürk’s tomb. But the day he went there, he wrote the following phrase in the memorial book of the tomb: One of the children of your republic in another country.
As an American of Lebanese origin, he has already announced that Ottoman history and the Republic of Türkiye are important to him and he is happy that he came to Ankara for diplomatic activities.
Another distinguishing feature of Barack is that he is the US Special Representative for Syria while retaining his position, and therefore, the position he will take on Syria and the Middle East should be taken seriously.
Therefore, it is necessary to properly analyze and evaluate the words of Barak in the interview with NTV and the words of Hakan Fidan in the interview with TRT.
Is Ankara still important to America?
Barak often deals with the market and economic activity and comes from the business world. He has received special attention from Ankara because of his friendship and closeness to Trump.
The investment fund, formerly known as Colony Capital, bought Turkey’s Fundi Group from the UAE’s Abraaj Group in late June 2018 for $526 million at the time.
Beyond his family’s Lebanese roots, he has always focused on the Middle East and especially the Persian Gulf in his business life.
In short, he is no stranger to this area. But let me make an important point: at one time, Ankara was considered one of the most important and “difficult” diplomatic capitals in the world, and the United States constantly appointed experienced and professional ambassadors to our capital.
Ambassador Barack suggests a very simple way to overcome phenomena like ISIS, such as bottom-up policies, such as making sure that children and youth get a good education, get jobs, and have a positive outlook for the future!
According to the optimistic picture painted by Ambassador Barak, Saudi, Qatari and Emirati capital will flow into Syria and the region will become a single market as the borders of the countries become meaningless.
Interestingly, after Barak’s interview, Hakan Fidan also told T. R. T gave an interview and his words were as if he was answering him.
For example, he said: Our main problem was not the US presence in Syria. Because America is present in many parts of the region. Our main problem was America’s cooperation with the PKK and supporting its satellite institutions.
Asked if this support is going to be cut, Hakan Fidan said: We hope it will happen.