Imperialism, NATO and Syria…
08/03/2015 Turkey called NATO members for a meeting regarding article 4 on account of threat against its security and territorial integrity. And this had become the 5 th meeting request regarding article 4 since NATO was founded in 1949. Turkey’s first meeting request regarding this article was in 2003. Turkey had called out for protection against possible threat from Saddam regime whilst invasion of Iraq by USA was the day’s topic. Now Turkey states that there is threat to its territorial integrity from the Islamic jihad organization ISIS and the Kurdish organizations both. It is known that the NATO members are willing to support against the threat from the first one. Due to same reason, the second issue is slightly problematic. Convocation evoked the discussions of legitimacy in Turkey’s protection demand which ensued from the deadly attacks and whether PKK and ISIS are the same. Besides, PKK is presented as all the Kurds’ representative while saying PKK and t...