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Le Premier ministre turc Erdogan effectue cette semaine une visite et Iran, où il va saluer “son ami” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ainsi que le grand ayatollah Khameini. Erdogan donne une interview au Guardian où il ne cache rien de ses pensées sur l’Iran et le “conflit” qui oppose ce pays à l’Occident. Le Guardian met en ligne deux articles sur cette rencontre que le journaliste Robert Tait a eue à Istanboul avec le Premier ministre turc.

• L’un d’eux (du 26 octobre 2009, bien sûr) résume la position d’Erdogan sur cette affaire iranienne, en l’opposant à la position de la Turquie dans l’OTAN.

«The Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has exposed divisions in Nato by accusing the west of treating Iran unfairly over its nuclear programme and describing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, its vehemently anti-western president, as a friend. In a Guardian interview, Erdogan down-played western fears that Iran wants to build an atomic bomb as “gossip” and said a military strike against Iranian nuclear installations would be “crazy”.

»He also strongly implied that those countries which were pressuring Iran to clarify its goals were guilty of hypocrisy because they all had nuclear weapons themselves. “There is a style of approach which is not very fair because those [who accuse Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons] have very strong nuclear infrastructures and they don't deny that,” Erdogan said. “The permanent members of the UN security council all have nuclear arsenals and then there are countries which are not members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which also have nuclear weapons. So although Iran doesn't have a weapon, those who say Iran shouldn't have them are those countries which do.”»

• L’autre article (également du 26 octobre 2009) est d’un ton plus militant, exposant ce que le Guardian juge implicitement être les contradictions entre cette “amitié” quasi-monstrueuse (avec l’Iran et tout ce que vous savez que l’on sait bien de ses intentions apocalyptiques) et les “valeurs” occidentalistes auxquelles on ne doute pas un instant que la Turquie doit souscrire. Nous avons droit à quelques tonnes de pommade sur les thèmes du sécularisme, de l’islamisme, etc. L’article, après avoir souligné qu’Erdogan considère Ahmadinejad comme un “ami”, nous parle de la vertu agressée de notre cher Sarko.

«Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's radical president whose fiery rhetoric has made him a bête noire of the west? “There is no doubt he is our friend,” said Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister for the last six years. “As a friend so far we have very good relations and have had no difficulty at all.”

»What about Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France, who has led European opposition to Turkey's bid to join the EU and, coincidentally, adopted a belligerent tone towards Iran's nuclear programme? Not a friend? “Among leaders in Europe there are those who have prejudices against Turkey, like France and Germany. Previously under Mr Chirac, we had excellent relations [with France] and he was very positive towards Turkey. But during the time of Mr Sarkozy, this is not the case. It is an unfair attitude. The European Union is violating its own rules.” “Being in the European Union we would be building bridges between the 1.5bn people of Muslim world to the non-Muslim world. They have to see this. If they ignore it, it brings weakness to the EU.”»

• Quelques mots sur l’inévitable Israël. Ici, le Guardian ne doute pas que cette visite va rendre les relations de la Turquie avec Israël plus délicates, là Erdogan adopte un ton patelin et faussement innocent pour dire qu’il n’a rien contre Israël mais, sans doute, un peu contre tel ministre en particulier (celui que Sarkozy a failli virer, si l’on se souvent bien), qui pense qu’une bombe nucléaire sur Gaza ferait l’affaire; et lui, Erdogan, qui ne doute pas, d’autre part, car c’est le bon sens, que les relations des USA avec la Turquie ne seront pas influencées par Israël…

»…Erdogan dismissed the notion, saying: “I don't think there is any possibility of that. America's policy in this region is not dictated by Israel.” He insisted that the Turkey-Israel strategic alliance – which some AKP insiders have said privately is over – remains alive but chided the Israeli foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, who he said had threatened to use nuclear weapons against Gaza.»

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