Quick notes: Trade deal | Muslim refugees...

• Is it India's job to rescue her colonial masters? The UK economy is in shambles. India's economy is expected to double in GDP in the decade. India-UK trade deal - one-way street?
  
  The report of the House of Lords International Agreements Committee is replete with sermonising text. It observes, “India has a notoriously difficult business environment— corruption levels are high, business permits are difficult to obtain, tax and customs processes are complex, levels of contract enforcement are low, and IP protections are limited.”
  
  It also points out that the UK Government “has not been specific about the importance it will give to human, environmental and other rights and protections, nor (in most cases) about its red lines.”


.@RajivMessage explains the shortcomings of exporting India's manpower to help build foreign technology companies. He also emphasizes the need for #atmanirbhar in #research & #development as well. #aiandpower @NITIAayog
Watch the full conversation here- https://t.co/O0Y4HjKPKf pic.twitter.com/pSdZzh1N7W

— Infinity Foundation (@InfinityMessage) August 4, 2021





• Muslim refugees unwelcome in the Caliphate: Turkey deports hundreds of Syrian refugees. 'Taken to the border and forced to cross at gunpoint.'



• Cyber Jihad: Turkey secretly helped Pakistan in setting up a cyber army to shape public opinion and influence the views of Muslims



• Pope Francis: "Even nuns watch porn". He advised the group to "delete this from your phone, so you will not have temptation in hand".



• Drug manufacturing in India: Unregulated, out of control. Unlike other regulators like the TRAI and Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) does not have any statutory backing.



• Ubuntu on RISC-V, under $20 computer: At the heart is a 1 GHz Allwinner D1 XuanTie C906 single-core processor based on RISC-V architecture



• Why You Should Avoid Vegetable Oils We were told to use more vegetable, seed and bean oils (like soybean, corn, safflower, canola). Now we know this advice was completely wrong.




• Tennis is mad at Pickleball mania: Pickleball is more accessible and fun than tennis. An 'addictive' game that won't stop growing

Quick notes: Cool roofs | Nuclear caliphate...

• Cool roofs: 'Whitest ever' paint reflects 98% of sunlight. "So if you were to use our paint to cover a roof area 1,000 sq ft, we estimate you could get a cooling power of 10 kilowatts. That's more powerful than the central air conditioners used by most houses". Cool white roofs are seen as an easy, urban climate solution.



• Women's lib in China: A Chinese platform is erasing radical feminist accounts that shun men and the patriarchy



• Erdoğan’s caliphate: Pak helping Turkey to develop nuclear weapons and control Afghanistan.
  
  Reports from Syrian Observatory for Human Rights suggest that Turkey is in the process of deploying its Syrian Islamist client militias in Kashmir.
  
  China and Russia fear Turkey’s possible deployment of Islamist militias to Afghanistan and elsewhere in the region
  
  The Axis: China, Pak want Turkey to replace Saudi Arabia as the leader of Islamic world?
  
  After nuclear weapons, Turkey, Pakistan and China bond on Afghanistan.
  
  Delhi can strengthen its old links to the Tajik and Uzbek factions, provide covert help to TTP and Baloch fighters, and cooperate with Iran in propping up the Afghan govt.
  



• Facebook faces mass legal action over data leak: "The scale of this breach, and the depth of personal information compromised, is gob-smacking."



• EVs in India: Given India's reliance on coal, electric vehicles could at best be 10% more efficient than petrol in terms of CO2 savings.



• Shankhaprakshalana: Yogic alternative for the artificial kidney



• Upadēśa Sāra: Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi

Quick notes: War lessons | Vocal for local...

• Turkish drones lead Azerbaijan to victory: “The first lesson that the Azerbaijani-Armenian clashes showed is the vulnerability of traditional land units -- armored, mechanized, and motorized formations in the face of advanced drone warfare weaponry and concepts.” Crucially Turkey also transferred 'a complete robotic warfare doctrine and concept of operations' to Azerbaijan.
  
  “The Turkish-made Bayraktar drones carry four missiles that are also produced by Turkey -- MAM laser-guided ‘smart micromunition’ missiles. In Syria, these drones very easily destroyed Russian air defense systems like the S-300 and S-400 surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). This caused a kind of outcry in Russia because Turkey has produced drone weapons which are able to easily hit all the air-defense systems that have been advertised by Russia as one of the most effective air-defense systems in the world”.



• Sunken boats. Stolen gear: Fishermen are prey as China conquers a strategic sea. China’s navy, coast guard and paramilitary fleet have rammed fishing boats, harassed oil exploration vessels, held combat drills and shadowed U.S. naval patrols. “It appears that China is rapidly developing the capabilities to exclude other navies from the South China Sea”.
  
  Many experts argue that China is the main culprit in overfishing, offering massive incentives to its armed fleet and regular fishermen to venture far into other nations’ exclusive economic zones, from Latin America to the Antarctic. “Clashes will increase as China strengthens de facto control and [fish] stocks collapse. Eventually we will see loss of life if this keeps up.” 



• Vocal for Local: China lost Rs 40,000 crore from boycott of Chinese goods, claims CAIT. “We are all set to achieve our target of reducing imports from China to the tune of Rs. One lakh crore by December,2021”. . . . Will the educated middle-class support them?



• Our bodies are ruined by sitting, learn to squat: “Every joint in our body has synovial fluid in it. This is the oil in our body that provides nutrition to the cartilage. If a joint doesn’t go through its full range—if the hips and knees never go past 90 degrees—the body says ‘I’m not being used’ and starts to degenerate and stops the production of synovial fluid. . . . “Being on the ground helps you physically be ”grounded in yourself” —something that’s largely missing from our screen-dominated, hyper-intellectualized lives. 



• Far side of the moon: China's Yutu 2 rover snaps stunning new panoramas from the moon's far side. China is planning to launch its next lunar mission, Chang'e 5, later this month. The mission aims to land on the near side of the moon, collect around 4.4 lbs. (2 kilograms) of rocks and regolith samples and deliver them to Earth.




• Unsafe at any speed: Why aren't Indian cars as safe as foreign ones?.. “India has the potential to be a great exporter of cars if they are as safe as international automobiles”.. India wasn't applying widespread crash testing like foreign countries do, so manufacturers didn't see the need for an investment focus on safety.



• ‘Faeces and Pieces of Glass’: France warns soldiers against food delivery apps.. Soldiers and police have been under constant threat by Islamic radicals.



• Navy Pilot Landing on Aircraft Carrier:

Quick notes: Reparations | Mapping investments...

• Reparations: China's c-virus liability - what would a reasonable settlement look like?



• America's options: When a T-bill or bond is redeemed at maturity, the Treasury gives the money to the holder. That means that the Treasury has complete control over $1.08 trillion in Chinese money. 



• Land-grab Down Under: Australia should 'take back the land' from China as damages



• Comment on a British forum on reparations: Careful now, if we start down that route, Britain might end having to pay for all the famines, wars and other forms of death and destruction that we've wrought on other peoples over the centuries. I suspect that we would end up a net debtor.



• Mapping Chinese investments in India: Chinese companies have escaped the kind of scrutiny in India that their investments have attracted in the West, despite several high-profile investments and acquisitions. Besides the current emphasis on investments, another likely reason is the assumption that investments from the Chinese private sector are entirely different from state-led investments. But the separation between the Chinese state and private business is blurry.
  
  Within China, the Chinese private sector, and particularly tech firms, work closely with the govt and the Communist Party in pursuing many of its goals at home. This is especially true of the technology sector, which is widely seen as playing a key role in the party’s enforcement of digital authoritarianism at home, from surveillance to censorship.
  
  As of September 2019, the U.S., Australia, and Japan were among countries that have blocked Huawei from their 5G plans, while India has not taken a final call, although allowing the Chinese company to participate in initial 5G trials. Huawei has already supplied equipment to build India’s 3G and 4G networks, but the security implications of 5G have given the Indian government some pause for thought.
  



• Sign the petition: Make China pay reparations for c-virus.. . . Islamists force women to cover up. Chinese force everyone to cover their faces.



• C-virus: China’s first confirmed Covid-19 case traced back to November 17, 2019



• Han abuses: Uyghur health workers forced to treat virus patients



• National security naivete: Pakistan's best friend will build ships for Indian navy

India is going ahead with a $2.3 bn deal to manufacture of FSVs in collaboration with a Turkish shipyard following a review after questions were raised on Turkey’s links with Pakistan and the recent diplomatic tiff with the Recep Tayyip Erdogan govt.https://t.co/RUGd67oNsu

— Defence Decode🥇 (@DefenceDecode) March 23, 2020

Quick notes: Namaste Israel | Afghan deal...

• Namaste Israel: Bibi proposes to ditch handshake for Hindu Namaste to check the spread of deadly coronavirus.

  Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu @netanyahu encourages Israelis to adopt the Indian way of greeting #Namaste at a press conference to mitigate the spread of #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/gtSKzBDjl4

  — India in Israel (@indemtel) March 4, 2020




• Peaceful Rise: Chinese firm copies Gilead's remdesivir, the most promising drug against the new coronavirus. . . . Chinese govt spin: "Coronavirus did not originate in China".



• Afghan deal: Paki intelligence may end up the real winner in the Afghan peace deal. “You can’t succeed in Afghanistan independent of us, because we manage, if not actually control, the militant framework in that country.” . . . Pakistan does not want any role for India in Afghanistan



• Primacy of regional language: Maharashtra makes Marathi language compulsory for all schools. . . . Rejuvenating our mother tongues.

No one aspires for English. People aspire for jobs, economic opportunities. The State deprives people without English of opportunities—competitive exams, higher education, law, even tax filings.

The Govt pushes English, then claims it is "aspirational."https://t.co/y7eDKJW7F5

— Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ (@sankrant) December 9, 2019




• Erdogan's blackmail: EU fumes at Turk migration 'blackmail'



• Purging Huawei: US Congress gives small ISPs $1 billion to rip out Huawei, ZTE network gear



• Handing over keys to China: When Italy became the only G-7 nation to sign a Belt and Road accord last March, it drew criticism for choosing Beijing at the expense of its western allies. German Foreign Minister warned at the time that if you “think you can do clever deals with the Chinese, you will come down to earth with a bump.” Italy learned that lesson the hard way. Italian exports to China showed a 1% decline while Chinese imports grew. And then came the coronavirus...



• Hydrogen Mobility: Coming soon to a bus or truck near you. Possible hedge against oil and metal shortages? .

Quick notes: Love jihad | Diabetes drug...

• Love Jihad in Kerala: Church says 'Love Jihad is real', claims Christian women being lured into IS trap



• Israeli team develops 'anti-diabetes drug': Zygosid-50 almost completely reduces insulin resistance.  “If you take care of the insulin resistance, you take care of the symptoms”.



• Taking on Islamists: India plans cuts to imports from Malaysia, Turkey over remarks on Kashmir. . . . . . . . India effectively "bans" imports of refined palm oil from Malaysia. 



• Turkey is Islamic State: Turkey bombs Sinjar villages in Iraq killing 4 Yazidis.



• The enemy nextdoor: China makes fresh bid to raise Kashmir at UNSC, fails. . . . . Delhi asks Beijing to draw lesson . . . . . . China has been stonewalling India's efforts to become permanent member of UNSC.



• Chinese threat: US may subsidize Huawei alternatives with proposed $1.25 billion fund 



• Amazon not doing India a favour by investing: "How can a marketplace make such a big loss unless they are indulging in predatory pricing or some unfair trade practices".



• Weapon of the future: Israel unveils breakthrough laser to intercept missiles, aerial threats. Every interception will only cost a few dollars, as opposed to interceptor missiles that can run into the thousands.



• Chennai Childrens Choir: Muddugaare Yashoda

Quick notes: Robotics surveillance | Cow manure...

• Robotics surveillance: Can robots help in fighting terror in Kashmir?



• Cow poop to electricity: World’s first commercial solution to generate electricity from dairy waste. The CalBio-Bloom Energy system also removes methane that would otherwise have been released into the atmosphere. Cow manure contains approximately 65% methane, which has a 25 times greater impact on global warming than CO2 emissions.



• Bengaluru sitting on groundwater time bomb: Groundwater supply in the IT city will decrease from 146 billion litres in 2018 to 36 billion litres in 2041 due to over-exploitation.



• Why fasting bolsters brain power: Fasting improves energy metabolism in neurons and stimulates the production of 'Neurotrophic factors'. Improves the number of mitochondria in your nerve cells. Ketones provide an alternative fuel that boost the energy levels of neurons.




• Cut the cutlery: Plastic with your home-delivered meal adds up to 22,000 tonnes waste every month. . . . . . . Where plastic outnumbers fish by seven to one



• MNC overlords: 60 of America's biggest companies paid no federal income tax in 2018. Amazon didn't pay a cent in federal income tax on $11.2 billion in profits in 2018. In fact, Amazon claimed a federal income tax rebate of $129 million.



• China's J-20 Stealth Fighter Has F-35 'DNA': Beijing has heavily invested in industrial and military espionage. In 2007, Chinese hackers stole technical documents related to the development of the F-35. The details on the hack, eventually revealed in documents leaked by Edward Snowden, are just one example of Chinese attempts to steal foreign aviation technology; as recently as 2017, Chinese hackers went after Australian F-35 defense contractors, nabbing even more info on the cutting-edge fighter.



• The worse he behaves, the greater his weight in Europe: Erdogan has been expanding Turkey beyond its borders – starting with Cyprus, the Greek Islands, Suakin Island (Sudan) and Syria. In Germany, Turkey controls 900 mosques out of a total of 2,400. Speaking with Turks in Germany, Erdogan urged the Turkish diaspora not to assimilate, and called the assimilation of migrants in Europe "a crime against humanity."  He has spies throughout Europe through a network of mosques, associations and cultural centers.



• Brilliant law in the Philippines: Students have to plant at least 10 trees in order to graduate.

This law requires students to plant at least 10 trees in order to graduate. Brilliant law in the Philippines 🇵🇭! Other nations - please follow!

pic.twitter.com/CYw0vezADu

— Erik Solheim (@ErikSolheim) September 30, 2019

Quick notes: Silicon prowess | Uighur detention...

• Significant milestone: China's SMIC to start 14nm mass production in H1 2019



• Spy hotbed: Hundreds of Chinese and Russian spies in Brussels



• Will other Muslim countries react? After years of silence, Turkey rebukes China for mass detention of Muslim Uighurs



• Dr. Jason Fung: 'Therapeutic Fasting - Solving the Two-Compartment Problem'




• Fish pass: Hilsa to be found again in Ganga river near Prayagraj. Earlier Hilsa fish used to reach up to the then Allahabad (now Prayagraj). However, the movement of Hilsa stopped after the Farakka Navigation Lock came up in 1976. Fish pass or Fishway is a structure or natural barriers like dams, locks, and waterfalls to ensure the natural migration of fish.



• ‘The tonic of the wilderness’: The Japanese practice of forest bathing is proven to lower heart rate and blood pressure, reduce stress hormone production, boost the immune system, and improve overall feelings of wellbeing.  Forest bathing—basically just being in the presence of trees—became part of a national public health program in Japan. 



• Yuval Noah Harari: Humans are Losing Touch with the Physical World




• Journey from the Self to the Self:




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Quick notes: Amazon model, Russian moves...

• Call to split up Amazon: "Amazon has operated its retail segment at a loss for decades, subsidizing the retail portion of its business with profits from other areas, such as web services. It's anti-competitive, it's predatory, and it's not right. They're not making money in retail, and they're putting retailers out of business"..... Lesson for India!



• Russia is arming the Afghan Taliban.... Putin tightens Turkey alliance with nuclear project... Yazidis remain in fear on Iraq's Mount Sinjar after attempted genocide



• Wide-body jets from China? Can a trade war now defer the day when China makes competitive wide-body jets?




• Abhinav Seetharaman: The beauty that is Sanskrit




• Doubtful intent: A questionable new study "explains" the origins of ancient Indians



• Breakfast cereal: Why cereal is NOT your best breakfast bet



• Dumping pesticides: Ducks are the future for pesticide-free rice farms

Quick notes: Startup rankings, Erdogan's jihad...

• Macaulay's children: India slipping further down the global startup hub rankings
  Rank Region
  1    Silicon Valley
  2    New York
  3    London
  4    Beijing
  5    Boston
  6    Tel Aviv
  7    Berlin
  8    Shanghai
  9    Los Angeles
  10  Seattle
  11  Paris
  12  Singapore
  13  Austin
  14  Stockholm
  15  Vancouver
  16  Toronto
  17  Sydney
  18  Chicago
  19  Amsterdam
  20  Bengaluru



• Indian Army's lack of direction: First invest in human beings – not platforms. As every growing economy has realised it is the soldier, not the machine that wins wars. First they need to get rid of the sahayak system, and over the top perks enjoyed by the officer core, including golf courses and golf carts. Then they need to start investing in serious body armour, and rifles for soldiers, while selling their many priceless properties that they don’t need.



• Our next East India Company: E-commerce in India is growing faster than other Asian countries. Amazon gains a firm footing against homegrown rival Flipkart.



• Erdogan's jihad: When Turkey’s armed forces finally seized control of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria, it was presented as a victory by “Islam’s last army” in a holy war.



• In Erdogan's crosshairs: Kurdish rebels withdraw from Iraq's Sinjar



• Hafiz Kazi: Indian behind deadly vehicle crash at Travis Air Force Base



• #deletefacebook: How to dump Facebook… or at least put it in the dog house for a while
  
  
  
  
  

Quick notes: Trump quotes Modi, IRS 2017...

• Trump quotes Modi to support Afghanistan stand: Senior administration officials said that the president has been known to affect an Indian accent and imitate Indian PM Narendra Modi, who in an Oval Office meeting last year told him, “Never has a country given so much away for so little in return” as the United States in Afghanistan. To Trump, Modi’s statement was proof that the rest of the world viewed the United States as being duped and taken advantage of in Afghanistan, these officials said. 



• 'We will tear them down': Turkey launches attack on US-backed Kurds in northern Syria 



• Really? Chinese engineering has become so advanced that Germany has begun talks to buy sophisticated aerospace technology and manufacturing equipment for the production of high-performance jet engines.... China's next aircraft carrier will be a Massive Leap Forward



• China to create new forests the size of Ireland: The govt is currently promoting an “ecological red line” program which will force provinces and regions to restrict “irrational development” and curb construction near rivers, forests and national parks.



• Survey: India's richest 1% grabbed 73% of wealth generation in 2017



• IRS 2017: No English dailies in top 10 

Quick notes: Kurds advance, 5th gen fighter...

• Nightmare for Turks: Kurds plan to expand territory across Syria to the Mediterranean sea, to create a trade route and bolster Kurdish enclaves in the north.



• Battle for Raqqa: Trump OKs arms for Syrian Kurds, despite Turkish objections... Kurds advancing, capture Tabqa Dam and a nearby town from Islamic State.



• Indo-Russian FGFA fighter: India and Russia are likely to soon ink a pact to finalize the detailed design for the fifth-generation fighter aircraft. 



• Baluchi independence is needed, break Iran if needed:

India cannot depend on placating Iran & praying for stability in Pakistan. Baluchi independence is needed: https://t.co/TwXoSX6PSF

— Rajiv Malhotra (@RajivMessage) May 6, 2017




• Welcome home: Ahead of triple talaq hearing, Muslim women chant Hanuman Chalisa for help 



• Nightmare on IT Street: About one lakh people to lose their jobs by next year.



• Microbiota and cancer risk: How our gut bacteria affect cancer risk and response to treatment 



• NAND Flash: The Triumph of Quantum Mechanics at the Heart of Solid State Data Storage

Quick notes: Anti-Turkey sentiment, Microgrids...

• Britain shields itself from Islamists: The Leave camp argued that Turkish membership in the EU was imminent, and would result in millions of Turks flooding the U.K. In reply, Prime Minister Cameron said Turkish membership in the EU would happen only by the year 3000. 





A poster in favour of Britain’s leaving the EU, which states that Turkey is joining the EU




• Mother nature: 30 minutes of nature a week reduces depression and heart disease



• India Gets Serious About Microgrids: Analysts are praising a new policy framework being drafted to support solar microgrids for rural electrification in India.



• Sweden Tests Electric Highway for Trucks:

Quick notes: Erdogan's games, Prejudice in courts...

• Erdogan's plan to expel Kurds: Visa-free travel to EU for Turkish nationals.



• Prejudice against Hinduism on the rise in India: Judges should not dictate religious practices. Political activists should not be allowed to use temples for political agitation.



• Why Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Criticism of Islam Angers Western Liberals: She is the object of vitriol by some on the left, for whom a narrative of the Muslims as victims and the West as victimizers is precious and comfortable.



• Tougher vehicle emission standards: China will become the toughest regulatory regime in the world over the next five years. Honda has said the 47-mpg standard will require it to sell only hybrids in China by 2025.



• Sun salutations with mantras:

Quick notes: Col. Mahadik, Bengaluru college...

• Col. Mahadik's sacrifice: On one hand Kiran Rao thought of escaping the country while on the other, Col. Mahadik’s bereaved wife, Swati, had announced her firm determination that her children would serve in the Indian Army.



• A new country for Aamir:




• Egg on face: Rahul faces embarassing moments in Bengaluru college



• Putin is right: Turkey is an ISIL ally



• Mohan Bhagwat bats for mother tongue as medium of learning: Uses Hindi and Mother tongue interchangeably, confused soul.



• iPad Pro problems: Apple acknowledges mysterious shutdowns, but no fix yet



• Enough complaining, Mr Victim:

Desh ke liye Marne ke din Gaye , hausla hai toh desh ke liye jee ke dikhao ! Don't complain , contribute .

— Paresh Rawal (@SirPareshRawal) November 24, 2015

Quick notes: Dog-fight, Onion mission...

• IAF Top Guns Score Wins in the UK:  In some of the most intense international air combat exercises, IAF pilots flying Sukhoi Su-30 MKI fighters had a resounding 12-0 scoreline in their favor against Royal Air Force Typhoon jets in Within Visual Range dog-fighting operations.



• Turkey facilitating IS' rise, Kurdish suppression: Many believe that civil war is inevitable.



• US-Turkey deal on Syria: US has Kurdish blood on its hands.



• Men are literally freezing women out of the workplace: Women feel comfortable with room temperatures of around 77°F, compared with men’s preference for less than 72°F.



• Regular consumption of spicy foods linked to lower risk of death: Participants who ate spicy foods almost every day had a relative 14% lower risk of death compared to those who consumed spicy foods less than once a week.



• Onion Mission:

Excellent initiative by BJD Govt in Odisha. More States should grow onions to break cartel and defang kanda mafia. https://t.co/c1w7IgIx8c

— Kanchan Gupta (@KanchanGupta) August 3, 2015




• Tweet Indian: Now tweet in Kannada, Gujarati, Marathi and Tamil



• Cramming IIT!: “Coaching classes are beating the system. IITs have failed to tap raw talent. We get the best coached people; not necessarily the best people.”

Turkey Ratchets Up Tensions With Israel

Turkey is systematically ratcheting up tensions with Israel, using the Gaza flotilla incident:



Erdogan & Co are obviously doing this to make themselves the big kids on the Islamic bloc.
But will they be able to continue riding this tiger, or will things blow up in their face?

I'd always felt that the Israelis made a deep strategic error in forging a longterm strategic alliance with the Turks. It was inevitable that Kemalist secularism would collapse in the long run. Now that it has, what will the Israelis do? They have now left themselves in a strategic wilderness.

If I were them, I would quickly try to improve ties with Greece, including even its crooked socialists.

Who is Fethullah Gulen?

Fethullah Gulen is a well-connected Turkish billionaire who fled to the US, and is believed to be serving a US agenda in Central Asia. It's not clear to me whether this particular agenda would be in India's interests. Anyhow, he seems to have ties to Turkey's newly re-vamped security establishment, following the purge of Ataturkists.

It seems to me that the more the CIA supports Islamism in Central Asia, the more difficult it will be for the US to defeat AlQaeda. I guess that Americans don't care that they are shooting themselves in the foot, but at least India needs to be wary of being shot through collateral damage.

Here is an excerpt from one of Gulen's sermons:

"You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers … until the conditions are ripe, they [the followers] must continue like this. If they do something prematurely, the world will crush our heads, and Muslims will suffer everywhere, like in the tragedies in Algeria, like in 1982 [in] Syria … like in the yearly disasters and tragedies in Egypt. The time is not yet right. You must wait for the time when you are complete and conditions are ripe, until we can shoulder the entire world and carry it … You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional institutions in Turkey … Until that time, any step taken would be too early—like breaking an egg without waiting the full forty days for it to hatch. It would be like killing the chick inside. The work to be done is [in] confronting the world. Now, I have expressed my feelings and thoughts to you all—in confidence … trusting your loyalty and secrecy. I know that when you leave here—[just] as you discard your empty juice boxes, you must discard the thoughts and the feelings that I expressed here"

It seems Gulen prefers a "velvet revolution" approach over AlQaeda's directly confrontational jihad.

Pope Tried to Block Turkey from EU

Another significant revelation from the WikiLeaks disclosures is that Pope Ratzinger opposed EU membership for Islamic Turkey, and that he wanted Christianity enshrined in the EU charter.

Can Turkey Displace Saudi Influence in Pak

The WikiLeaks disclosures seem to have revealed that the US interest in seeing Turkey's influence in Pak rise to displace the huge influence wielded by Saudi Arabia there. I think that India should support the rise of Turkey to offset Saudi Arabia, and that we can only benefit from this.