this is actually my assessment, not their assessment. there's a rant back in there somewhere about the turks shifting south as a result of being rejected from the eu, and not wanting to join the slavic russian union as just another second class stan.

i think they put some of the recent events together re:egypt fairly well. there's some guesswork. will have to be for now. i don't think obama is serious about iran, i think it's a negotiating tactic. and i don't think american funds have stopped making their way to armed rebels in syria, as they have been for years.

i'd just want to add that the imperial strategy, here, is divide and conquer. if the americans are obstructing, it's precisely because the turks are asserting influence. the mafia principle still holds. turkey might not like what happens. but that might be why they just bought those weapons, hmmm?

http://fpif.org/turkey-middle-east-realignment/