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土耳其是下一個"帶路"的骨牌？

Turkey the next BRI domino to fall？

accessed April 22, 2019

●Turkey is scheduled to receive S-400 air-defense missiles from Russia in July and F-35 fighters from the U.S. in November. Both Ankara has purchased.
土耳其將在7月從俄羅斯收到所購買的S-400先進防空飛彈。它也將在11月從美國收到所購買的F-35先進防空戰機。
●Now U.S. senators from both parties are openly asking Turkish president Erdogan to choose between Washington and Moscow, saying that he cannot have both.
最近美國跨黨派的參議員公開告訴土耳其總統艾爾多宛他必須在俄美之間選一，不能通吃。
●Facing economic difficulties at home, Erdogan needs money. Can the West help him? Not likely.
艾爾多宛在國內數座大城市選舉失利，經濟下滑是原因之一。他需要金錢援助。西方會提供嗎？不大像。
●China may just come in to rescue him.
中國將趁機伸出援手。
●Putin saved Erdogan's life during the 2017 coup in Turkey by calling him to escape 15 minutes before it would be too late. The bromance between the two is much stronger than the relationship between Trump and Erdogan.
艾爾多宛曾在2017國內政變時，被普丁一通電話"快逃!"救命。再過15分鐘就太晚了。兩人之間情誼深厚，遠超過艾爾多宛和川普的關係。
●Washington's ultimatum to Erdogan may just push him toward Moscow, a de facto ally of Beijing.
華府對艾爾多宛的哀第美頓只會逼他靠向莫斯科，北京的戰略夥伴。
●More than that, in early March, Turkey joined the other 56 Islam countries during a gathering of foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Abu Dhabi in a consensus that praised China for "providing care to its Muslim citizens", despite the fact that Turkish foreign minister Hami Aksoy in February had called the "systemic assimilation" of the Uighurs a "great shame for 
humanity" and urged China to close the camp.
不只如此，在三月初， 土耳其參與其他56個伊斯蘭國家通過一項協議對中國在新疆的"教育營"政策表示讚賞。雖然之前在二月，土耳其外交部長公開譴責北京有系統的"同化"新疆的維吾爾人民為"對人性的巨大汙辱"並呼籲關閉教育營。

Chong-Pin Lin April 16, 2019
林中斌 2019.4.16