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US Navy personnel attacked in Istanbul: 1) The TGB is a Kemalist youth group that believes the AKP is a conspiracy of the US; 2) The action was in protest against events in Syria and Palestine; 3) The TGBs politics are pretty bad, they for instance do not care for Kurdish people and their self-determination, and they buy the conspiracy theorist view of the Syrian conflict (i.e. there are no rebels, only CIA and other Western terrorists); 4) Nonetheless, Turkey is teetering on the brink of a break from its alliance with US imperialism, if not outright repudiation of NATO membership. Both the Kemalist secular center and the AKP center-right have motivations to break with Washington and the West in general; 5) Anti-US views are very popular in places where the US has its closest allied governments, like Pakistan!
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:12:56 +0000

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