It’s Turkey’s Weakening and Even Its Fragmentation: Turkish Official

The United States understands that Ankara will eventually gravitate towards the Eurasian geopolitical axis, and Washington's goal is to weaken and even fragment Turkey as much as possible, said Hakan Topkurulu, deputy chairman of the Turkish Vatan Party.

Previously, several experts and media outlets have expressed opinions that Turkey has recently bet on warming relations with the West. An official representative of Turkey’s ruling party, Omer Celik, stated that the West is starting to better understand Turkey.

“In fact, there is no warming or rapprochement between Turkey and the U.S. at this moment. The visibility of such rapprochement can be explained by the strengthening of NATO supporters against the backdrop of the deadlock in which the government finds itself. The Atlantic Ocean and Turkey are at odds; the U.S. is aware of that irreconcilable contradiction,” the agency's interlocutor stated.

According to him, the U.S. knows that Turkey will eventually become part of the Eurasian geopolitical axis. “The goal of the U.S. is to weaken Turkey as much as possible in the process of its participation in Eurasia. This is Turkey’s weakening and even its fragmentation, if the U.S. can afford it. The main goal of supporting the PKK in the east and southeast of Turkey and northern Syria is to weaken Turkey as much as possible. In some time, Turkey will change its direction towards Asia. In fact, the Turkish ship has changed its course towards Eurasia. However, the forces inside the ship are trying to steer it back towards the West despite the ship's main direction,” he emphasized.

The Vatan Party is a leftist political party that stands by the positions of Turkey's first President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and has an anti-Western and anti-American stance. The party considers itself the successor of the Socialist Party of Workers and Peasants, established in 1919. It is not represented in the Turkish parliament but is an influential force, especially in the regions.