Turkey secretly working on the Nuclear bomb?

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Turkey secretly working on the Nuclear bomb? (Welt)[GoogleTranslate].

Where Europe bordering the Middle East, there is a man who follows powerful visions. The new Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to be as dynamic as a Southeast Asian boom economy, while inspired by Islamic piety and widely invincible as once the Ottoman Empire. Not unlike his predecessor Sultan also spread this as much fear as gloss.

As was recently announced that the federal intelligence service spying on Turkey , there were several possible reasons for the same: through the country on the Bosporus drag Islamist fighters in the crises in Iraq and Syria. Drug trafficking, smuggling, militant Kurds can explore in Erdogan's Turkey also. But there is an even better, though hardly known reason, which makes Turkey a legitimate target German intelligence services. For some time, there are increasing signs that Erdogan wants to arm his country nuclear.

That obviously Turkey is working on nuclear weapons, however, is hardly discussed publicly. The western intelligence scene, however, is largely in agreement about it.

Model for the strategy of the Turks is clearly Iran. Tehran seeks nuclear weapons by establishing bomb material secretly under the cover of a civilian nuclear program.

2011 instructed the Russian company Rosatom Ankara for 15 billion euros to build a large reactor complex on the Mediterranean coast, about 300 kilometers east of the tourist center of Antalya. Two years later, a similar agreement with a Japanese-French consortium for the price of 17 billion. Even more interesting than these figures but the contracts - and especially what is not in it.

When companies build a light-water reactor, they usually agree to the Government, the project to operate for 60 years, to provide the necessary for the operation of uranium available and then take back the spent fuel. Exactly offered in the case of Turkey in both Rosatom and the Japanese-French consortium. So far nothing special so.

Not fixed supply of uranium contract

But Turkey has waived in both cases it to fix the supply of uranium and the withdrawal of spent fuel contract. She insisted the contrary, to regulate this separately later.  Ankara has not explained  this unusual maneuver in the negotiations. But the intention behind it is easy to see:

The Turkish leadership wants to keep these parts of the nuclear program in their own hands - and they are crucial to any State that wants to develop nuclear weapons.

First, there are the fuel rods: Not only Gorleben in Lower Saxony, but all over the world, the disposal of nuclear waste is discussed as a problem. Turkey on the other hand do not want to give up their spent fuel obviously. The only logical explanation for this: you want to make preparations for the construction of a plutonium bomb.

According to the Federal Intelligence Service, who were known to a limited German public by a relevant information service, the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has already arranged in 2010, secretly prepare for the construction of facilities for the enrichment. According to other intelligence findings that Turkey already has a significant number of centrifuges. Where they come from, can be supposed, after all: Pakistan.

Another important indication in the chain is the Turkish missile program. Since the mid-80s developed Turkey short-range missiles with a maximum range of 150 kilometers. This was to obviously not be satisfied. Public sensation was caused mainly prompted Erdogan in December 2011 to the defense industry of his country, to develop long-range missiles. Two months later, Turkey began apparently with the development of a medium-range missile. A type of missile with a range of 1,500 kilometers, after all, already tested the Turks 2012 A medium-range missile with 2,500 km range should be ready in 2015.

Given the already established nuclear power, Israel and the nascent nuclear-armed Iran, the Turkish prime minister has no choice but to his country to arm nuclear, if he wants to carry out his vision of a great power Turkey. Because otherwise, Turkey remains his understanding of secondary importance - and therefore can not and will Erdogan definitely not satisfied. Hmmm....Only prob Erdogan is way more dangerous then Ahmadinejad ever was. Read the full story here.