Turkey irritated with the Vatican to the memory of the Armenian Genocide

In a year marked by the increasing persecution of Christians, the Pope's speech on the sad occasion of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, has a double meaning. The first is the literal commemorate a page of history, that some, first among all the nation of Turkey, refuse to admit and seek to assert alternative definitions that have meaning only to want to alter the historical facts. The second is to start from the starting point of the anniversary to create an analogy with the current facts and remind the world of responsibilities, which led to religious intolerance towards the followers of the Christian religion. Is significant that the government of the Ankara, which was immediately irritated by convening the apostolic nuncio, that is the ambassador of the Vatican, has been one of the softest to the caliphate. In the long Turkey held a position not clear against the Islamic state, which, probably, at the beginning was also a lender, with the sole aim to maneuver the fundamentalists, to bring down the Assad regime, so influence the Syrian territory, both in geopolitical function, that anti Kurdish. The turkish country is crossed by a large internal split, where the political majority, which supports Erdogan, follows a transformation in the confessional sense of the country, which coincides with the project of creating a new kind of Ottoman Empire, albeit in other forms, consisting in the extension of the area of ​​influence of Ankara, which should become a kind of leader of the Sunni world, at least in neighboring areas. Turkey has been supported in this project by good economic growth, which, however, was not matched by an equally successful foreign policy. Before the failure of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, of which Turkey had spent much of his influence, then the strength of Damascus, which has resulted in the phenomenon of the Islamic state, never fought with the appropriate commitment required from Washington, they put the plans of Ankara in serious trouble, forcing the country to a considerable reduction of visibility on the international scene. From the point of view of domestic politics, the great challenges and the resumption of an anti-terrorism system, helped bring difficulties to the political majority, meanwhile crossed by dangerous scandals for reasons of internal corruption. In the background, then, is still refusing to Brussels to admit Turkey into the European Union for more than a lack in the required standards, one of which is precisely the lack of recognition of the Armenian genocide and constitutes a political disappointment never healed. Not all the people turkish supports this setting, the environments laity are deeply opposed to the sectarian drift of the country, but the promulgation of laws against freedom, which have stifled the freedom of press and expression makes it increasingly difficult to counter a power that is increasingly accumulated in one part, without the existence of counterweights to ensure the normal democratic life of the country. For all these reasons the Pope's speech, which had a broader scope than the right historical memory, have annoyed the Ankara, which, moreover, he feared this direction can already in advance: in fact, the pressure on the Vatican, at the approach recurrence apparently been different and all with the aim not to bring in a forum so amplified, as St. Peter's Square, the focus on what perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire a century before. The contrast that presumably will arise between the two state entities will put Turkey in a light even more negative attitude toward the West, but it can also exacerbate those divisions, based on religion, on which were built the contrasts carried out by all fundamentalists and by some were Sunnis, who identified Christianity as a whole with the western world and its values. The real danger is that the Pope's words are manipulated in sinister propaganda radical for purely strategic reasons.