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Saturday, August 25, 2007
Meshal: Shalit is Alive and Well
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Barak: Rocket Defense System A Precondition for West Bank Withdrawal
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday that he considers completion of a rocket defense system a precondition for any substantive withdrawal from the West Bank, and thus sees great importance in speeding up development of such a system, which is expected to take three to five years. According to Barak, withdrawal without adequate defense from Qassam rockets would endanger Israel’s main population centers.
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PRENEZ GARDE AUX ISLAMISTES DE TURQUIE
Par Barry Rubin, directeur de “Global Research in International Affairs Center” à l’IDC, Herzliya. Il publie “les études turques”
Paru dans le Jerusalem Post du 29 Juillet 2007
Traduit par Albert Soued pour www.nuitdorient.com
A Istanboul, les Turcs de tout bord m’ont raconté la même histoire pour expliquer la situation politique. “Le homard cuit vivant, ne doit cuire pas cuire dans une flamme vive. On le met dans une marmite d’eau froide et on augmente lentement la température”. Suite à la victoire du parti islamique de la Justice et du Développement (AK), lors des élections parlementaires du 22 Juillet, c’est ce qu’on craint pour la société turque.
Les médias internationaux répètent incessamment que le parti AK est aujourd’hui réellement modéré. En dépit de ses racines islamistes, il serait maintenant un parti du centre, préoccupé surtout par l’entrée de la Turquie dans l’UE (Union Européenne) et par la prospérité de l’économie. En fait c’est l’image que ce parti a essayé de projeter pendant ces 5 dernières années au pouvoir, et vu les résultats, on pourrait accepter cette conclusion. La moitié de ceux qui ont voté pour l’AK l’ont fait précisément parce qu’ils étaient convaincus que ce parti n’avait aucune intention islamiste. L’économie va bien et la Turquie bénéficie d’un système plus équilibré à l’égard de la religion. Pourtant, en même temps, il n’y a aucune preuve que le parti AK restera aussi bienveillant. Et même si le parti est relativement modéré, il n’y a pas de quoi s’en réjouir, car les perspectives à long terme sont inquiétantes. Personne ne sait ce qui arrivera, mais conclure que la Turquie montrera les vertus de transformation d’un islamiste en modéré se situe quelque part entre “prématuré et naïf”. Si le monde n’est pas encore conscient du danger, un scénario pessimiste serait plus probable. Sans exagérer le problème, il y a lieu de ne pas l’ignorer non plus.
Examinons la politique étrangère. Serait-il exagéré de dire que le gouvernement de l’AK est plus à l’aise avec l’Iran islamique qu’avec les Etats-Unis? Réellement pas. Si le sujet de préoccupation principal au Moyen Orient et dans le monde est la dissémination de l’islamisme radical, est-ce que le gouvernement de l’AK désire-t-il voir cette tendance défaite en Irak, au Liban, en Egypte et parmi les Palestiniens? Certainement pas. Même si le gouvernement de l’AK ne veut pas imposer chez lui l’islamisme radical, il n’est pas l’ennemi de cette tendance à l’étranger. La Turquie fut pro-occidentale, mais aujourd’hui elle est neutre, au mieux. L’alliance Turquie-Amérique qui a duré depuis 1946 est morte, mais cela ne signifie pas que les deux pays soient des ennemis et ils ont encore de bonnes relations. Les forces armées sont dans le même esprit, comme par le passé, mais les gouvernements ne sont plus réellement des alliés. Les Turcs semblent attribuer ces problèmes à la guerre d’Irak et à ce qu’ils perçoivent comme une sympathie à l’égard du PKK, le groupe terroriste kurde qui essaye de s’emparer du sud-est de la Turquie. En fait les 2 gouvernements ne sont pas en accord en ce qui concerne la plus importante préoccupation du moment, l’islamisme.
A long terme les perspectives sont également inquiétantes. Il est possible que dans quelques années, ce gouvernement soit renversé par une scission, un scandale ou un retournement économique. En effet, une partie du succès économique est due à une manipulation: de très hauts taux d’intérêt sont offerts artificiellement aux capitaux étrangers qui affluent. Cela peut-il continuer longtemps? Les experts pensent inévitable une prochaine faillite.
Et si l’AK restait au pouvoir très longtemps? Une large majorité au Parlement et un nouveau président du même bord lui donnerait des pouvoirs immenses, nommer les juges qui redessineront les lois du pays, nommer les commandants des forces armées qui permettront l’entrée dans l’armée d’officiers islamiques et neutraliseront les possibilités d’intervention de l’armée dans la vie politique, remplir l’administration par des fidèles soutiens à l’AK qui prendront progressivement des mesures proches de l’islamisme.
En Turquie centrale et orientale, les villes s’orientent vers une foi et une conduite islamique soutenues par les élus islamistes. Un énorme changement est en cours du fait de l’introduction de ce qu’on peut appeler “l’Islam de compétition”, ou l’alignement sur le mieux-disant. En Islam, il était interdit de critiquer tout croyant musulman. Aujourd’hui on trouve toujours quelqu’un qui vous dit que votre niveau de pratique religieuse est insuffisant et qu’il faut faire plus. Il y a donc aujourd’hui en Turquie une escalade de la norme.
Ceux qui ne souhaitent pas voir la menace d’un Islam radical, s’empressent de dire que tout va bien en Turquie, que les élections étaient une victoire de la démocratie et de la modération et qu’il est bon d’avoir un exemple d’un gouvernement islamique modéré dans le pays. Pourtant la victoire de l’AK, même si elle peut être contrôlée, ne doit pas être célébrée. Il faut admettre d’abord qu’il a des risques et que les décisions et les actions de ce gouvernement doivent être surveillées de près. D’autant plus qu’ayant amélioré son score électoral, passant des 30% aux 40%, l’AK pourrait être tenté de faire ce que bon lui semble. Pour éviter cette éventualité et s’assurer qu’il reste modéré et centré, ce régime doit rester sous pression. Cela signifie que l’armée doit continuer à garantir la démocratie et que les médias ne doivent pas être intimidés, car l’érosion de ces moyens de contrôle peut mener au désastre.
Pau de gens à l’extérieur comprennent qu’une des raisons de l’attrait du parti AK – et aussi la raison des critiques antioccidentaux – est qu’il clame qu’il est soutenu par les Etats-Unis, l’Europe et Israël. Le désir de coopérer avec le gouvernement turc même s’il est dominé par le parti AK, ne signifie pas qu’on aime l’AK au pouvoir.
Les institutions et organismes occidentaux, leurs médias et même leurs gouvernements devraient signifier par les moyens appropriés que l’AK n’est pas leur “tasse de thé” et qu’ils sont prêts à critiquer aussi bien sa politique que son comportement.
Beware of Turkey’s Islamists
In Istanbul, Turks of every political position told me the same story to explain their situation: To cook a live frog you don’t put it in a pot on a high flame. You put it in cool water and raise the temperature very slowly. This is what they fear is happening in Turkey following the victory of the Islamic-oriented Justice and Development (AK) party in the July 22 parliamentary election.
International media coverage repeats endlessly that the AK party is really moderate now. Despite Islamist roots, they say, it is now a centrist party mainly concerned with Turkey becoming a European Union (EU) member and having a prosperous economy.
Certainly, such is the image the party has projected over its five years in power, and there is some evidence to accept this conclusion. Half of Turkey’s voters supported AK precisely because they became convinced that it had no Islamist intentions. The economy is doing well. Turkey might benefit from having a system more balanced regarding religion.
At the same time, though, there is also evidence to doubt that AK is going to be so benign. And even if the party is relatively moderate, it is still nothing to rejoice about. The long-term prospects of AK rule are disturbing. No one knows what will happen, but to conclude that Turkey will prove the virtues of Islamists-gone-moderate is somewhere between premature and naïve.
If the world is unaware of the danger, a bad-case scenario is far more likely. Let’s not exaggerate the problem; but let’s not ignore it, either.
CONSIDER FOREIGN policy. Is it an exaggeration to say that the AK government feels more comfortable with Islamic Iran than with the United States? Not really. If the key issue in the Middle East, perhaps the world, is the spread of radical Islamism, does the AK government want to see this movement defeated in Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt or among the Palestinians? No.
Even if the AK government does not want to impose radical Islamism at home, it is certainly not the enemy of radical Islamism abroad. Once pro-Western, Turkey is now neutral, at best. The US-Turkish alliance, a mainstay since 1946, is dead.
This does not mean the two countries are enemies. They still have good relations. The armed forces may still think the same way as they did in the past. But the two governments are not really allies any more.
Turks tend to attribute the problems to the Iraq war and to what they see as American indulgence of the PKK, the Kurdish terrorist group trying to seize southeastern Turkey. But this is only part of the problem. The real issue is that the two governments are on different sides regarding the most important struggle of our time.
AN EQUALLY worrisome issue is the long-run trend. It might well be that AK falls due to a split, scandal, or economic downturn in a few years. At least part of the economy’s good situation is due to government manipulation. Extremely high interest rates pour out money to foreign investors. How long can this continue? Experts think that a crash is inevitable.
Yet what if AK stays in power for a long time? The combination of a large parliamentary majority and choosing Turkey’s next president gives it tremendous powers. By naming the judges it can shape the country’s laws; by choosing the armed forces’ commander it can reverse the traditional bar on Islamic-oriented officers and neutralize the military’s ability to intervene. Filling the bureaucracy with its supporters will move policies and their implementation closer to an Islamist agenda.
In eastern and central Turkey, cities are moving toward the kind of Islamic forms of belief and behavior supported by political Islamists. A huge change - in Turkey as elsewhere among Muslims - is the introduction of what I call “competitive Islam.”
Historically, in the pre-Islamist era, it was impermissible to criticize any professing Muslim. Now, however, there is always someone to say that any given level of observance is insufficient and must be raised. This approach has now spread to Turkey, bringing an escalation of what constitutes the norm.
THOSE WHO do not want to face the threat of radical Islam generally are eager to say that all is fine in Turkey, that the election was a victory for moderation and democracy, and that it is good to have a model of moderate Islamic-oriented politics governing that country. Again, one should not exaggerate what has happened there. But the victory of AK is not exactly something to be celebrated, even if it can be managed.
The first step is to admit that there are real dangers and monitor very carefully what the AK government does. Now that it has moved from the low 30- to the high 40-percent level of voter support, the party is being tempted to conclude it can do anything it wants. This is bad for all concerned, even for AK itself, whose success is based on caution.
To avoid the danger of AK going too far, to ensure it stays moderate whether or not it wishes to do so, the regime must continue to feel under pressure to stay in the center. This means continuation of the army’s power as guarantor of Turkish democracy; that the media not be intimidated; that courts remain independent. An erosion of these control mechanisms could bring disaster.
Few outsiders understand that one of AK’s sources of appeal - and, ironically, also a cause of anti-Western feeling among domestic critics - is its claim to enjoy support from the US, Europe and Israel. Willingness to work with Turkey’s government, even if it is an AK one, is not the same as wanting AK to be in power.
Western institutions, media and even governments should indicate in appropriate ways that the AK is not their client and be ready to criticize its policies or behavior.
The writer is director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center at IDC Herzliya and editor of Turkish Studies.
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