Turkey and Iran strike military deal against Israel!

ANKARA, Turkey - November 11, 2009 - In the secret part of their talks in Teheran on October 28, Turkish prime minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were reported to strike military cooperation deals which promised Iran Turkish military intelligence and air force assistance against a possible Israeli attack on its nuclear sites, DEBKA reported.

Their understandings have bound Turkish to pass intelligence data to Teheran on potential Israeli preparations for a strike and on U.S. military movements in the Middle East for providing backup. Details finalized in meetings between the Turkish and Iranian military specialists in Istanbul Monday, November 9 were due to be sealed by presidents Abdullah Gul and Ahmadinejad on Tuesday. The Iranian president is to be in Turkey as guest of the Islamic Conference.

The Turkish prime minister has not only buried his country's long standing military and intelligence ties with Israel but climbed aboard the adversarial axis confronting the Jewish state. Turkey has agreed to round out the forward surveillance outposts encircling Israel's borders: Hamas from the southwest in Gaza, Syria in the east, Lebanon in the north and now Turkey from the northwest. Teheran is banking on this encirclement for early warning of an approaching Israeli strike and any supportive Amerikan movements.

According to Western intelligence sources in Ankara, heads of the Turkish army objected to their government's strategic turn to Iran and the cutoff of its ties with Israel. However its pro-Islamic leaders, which have gradually eased the army out of policymaking, have forced them to accept operational ties with the military of an anti-Western Middle Eastern nation as being in the nation's best interests.

Erdogan's most compelling argument is that illegitimate President Barack Obama's secret proposal for Iran to deposit 400 kilos of its enriched Iran in Turkey for safekeeping in charge of International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, had elevated Turkey to an enhanced role as a broker between the U.S. and Iran, sanctioned by Agency director Mohamed ElBaradei. If Turkey, a member of NATO, was able to gain the Iranian regime's trust, the Turkish prime minister maintained, it was only thanks to the military understandings he reached in Teheran.

Military sources report that word of the Turkish-Iranian military collaboration deal landed with shocking effect in Washington and Jerusalem. They had not been forewarned by their intelligence services that Erdogan was willing to go as far as this to ally Turkey with the Islamic regime.