Mr. Erdogan, Mind Your Own Business, Will You ?!

It seems that Turkish government have nothing better to do other than sticking it's nose in everybody else's business ... It seems that interfering in the EU countries "recognition of the Armenian Genocide" and trying to threaten them to to withdraw those recognition resolutions , is not enough. It seems that interfering in the Armenian-Azri issues over Nagorno Karabakh is not enough either ...

So instead of minding it's own business, and trying to solve it's internal troubles and correct the gross human rights violations in Turkey... Or maybe, only maybe, start acting like civilized country and take the moral step of recognizing the Armenian Genocide, Erdogan thought that Turkey should play "Godfather" of the region and try to solve everybody else's problems !

The Turkish Godfather Trilogy

Godfather Part 1 : "The Cartoon Crisis "

First, Turkey tried to play the "good guy" and offered to mediate between Islamic angry countries and the Danish government, to find a solution to the "Cartoon Crisis."

But it seems that Erdogan have no idea about what's going on in his own country. Mr. Erdogan needs to take a look at his own people, Turks are as furious as everyone else in the Islamic world over the the "Cartoons" issue... First he need to convince his own people to stop attacking Christians , stop shooting Christian priests , and burning Danish flags before offering mediation in the issue !

Godfather Part 2 : "Israeli- Palestinian Conflict"

After Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) victory in the Palestinian elections, the Israeli government didn't hide it's dissatisfaction with those results, and refused to deal with the newly elected Hamas government... Here jumpped the Turkish Godfather again, trying to dissolve yet another turmoil in the region.

Puting Turkey's reputation at stake, Turkey took on a highly risky mission by hosting a five-man delegation from the Palestinian radical group Hamas... regardless of what consequenses can result in that, which might vary from damaging its international reputation to complicating its relations with its Israeli and Western allies.

Ankara heard bitter criticism from Israel, and Israeli spokesman Ranaan Gissin had compared the move to Israel inviting separatist Kurdish rebels for talks and said it could damage bilateral ties, as BBC News had reported.

Maybe Turkey is finally trying to listen to some of it's national voices, that have demonstrated against Israel for long time !!

Godfather 3 : Iraqi Sectarian Crisis

The last part of this Turkish version of the "Godfather" so far is the current Iraqi Sectarian Crisis, that have exploded after the bombing of the Shiite shrine in Samarra sparked deadly reprisals against Sunni mosques and worshippers.

The bloodshed that resulted from that incident, is likely to complicate the task of Shiite and Sunni political leaders who have pledged to set up a government of national unity in the wake of the December elections which illustrated a deep sectarian split in Iraq, if not to start sectarian and ethnic conflict in Iraq.

Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Ja'fari is to visit Turkey today, February 28, to discuss how Turkey can help stem sectarian violence in Iraq.Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the visit two days ago in Istanbul. The Anatolia news agency quoted him as saying that radical Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is also scheduled to visit Ankara soon.

So why does Turkey need to create new external fronts ? Doesn't Turkey have enough issues to worry about already both on the internal and external levels ?!

I think that Turkey is either trying to convince the EU that it's a huge political power in the region and it's civilized enough to solve everybody's problem, so the EU might overlook it's gross violations of Human Rights and accept to admit Turkey. Or maybe, Turkey is trying to distract the International community, so the latter might forget about the Armenian Genocide recognition by Turkey.