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According to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “More than 13 million people have been affected by the devastating earthquake in Turkey.” (quoted by Tass, February 7, 2023)
“The earthquake has caused colossal damage. It was the biggest-ever calamity not only in our country’s history but in the history of the entire world,” Erdogan was quoted telling local television channels.
“We are living through the most painful days in our history. Two powerful earthquakes, with the epicenters in Pazarcik and Elbistan in Kahramanmaras, [close to the city of Gaziantep] have caused large-scale damage in ten provinces. Around 13.5 million [out of 85 million Turkish population] of our citizens have been affected on these territories,” he said.
Written by Peter Koenig. Originally published by GlobalResearch
Early Monday morning at around 4 AM on February 6, 2023, a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked southeast Turkey and Syria. According to the US Geological Survey, the earthquake’s epicenter hit an area about 30 km from Gaziantep (2.1 million population), a major city and provincial capital 100 km from the Syrian border. The quake was centered about 18 km deep.
It was followed by a strong 6.7 magnitude aftershock about 10 minutes later. Read more here. See also NY Post drone video below of some of the devastated areas.
The death toll from the earthquake so far exceeds 5,400, and some 32,000 people were injured. This is only after day two, when most of the destruction and rubble has not yet been searched for survivors or bodies.
The earthquake also hit northern Syria, leaving so far at least 1,200 deaths and thousands of injured. (See 2 google maps to the left).
By comparison, the 1960 Chile earthquake hitting the Santiago area was one of the most devastating tremors in recent history, killing some 1,700 people, plus the ensuing tsunami with a death toll of between 2000 and 2,500, and tens of thousands of injured.
A Gigantic Act of Terror?
If President Erdogan is right, that this is one of the world’s largest calamities ever – and it looks very much like he is right – wars notwithstanding, is this an act of terror?
What has Turkey done to elicit such a devastating reaction – by whom?
The US of A? NATO, which as far as command goes is also Washington and the Pentagon?
A few recent initiatives by Turkey – a key member and heavy-weight of NATO for her strategic geographic location between east and west – may have provoked the wrath of her NATO allies.
Not necessarily in order of priority:
1. Turkey has entered an alliance with Russia – which for a NATO-member is like “sleeping with the enemy”. (Michel Chossudovsky) See this and this. Such a partnership with a NATO enemy is indeed an absolute no-go for the west. Under this alliance, Turkey has decided to buy the
2. Russian S-400 Air Defense system, instead of the US Patriot system, as it would behoove for a NATO member, especially one as crucial as is Turkey. Patriot (standing for Phased Array Tracking Radar for Intercept on Target) is a surface-to-air missile and anti-ballistic system. It is NATO’s air defense system. Instead, Turkey’s decision for the more sophisticated, more precise and effective Russian S-400 is a strong backbone for her alliance with Russia.
3. President Erdogan brokered in 2017 a US$ 2.5 billion deal with President Putin for the S-400. First deliveries of the S-400 missile batteries arrived in 2019.
4. The S-400 system is said to pose a risk to the NATO alliance as well as the F-35, America’s most expensive weapons platform. Turkey was severely sanctioned at the time by President Trump, notably by a foreign-manipulated currency devaluation of the Turkish Lira – which had a devastating impact on Turkey’s economy.
It is unusual, almost unheard of, for Washington to “punish” a NATO member for misbehavior.
[separating this “punishment” from 5, below]
5. US warship USS Nitze barred from entering the Black Sea through the Turkish controlled Bosporus. According to USNI News, the US warship USS Nitze, a US destroyer, was spotted in early February 2023, operating near the Black Sea. It is said to be the closest a US warship has come to Russia since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine began.
6. On February 3rd, the Nitze was seen at the lower edge of the Bosphorus Strait, en route to a port call in Turkey. The last US warship to pass through the strait was the USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), which left the Black Sea on December 15, 2021. See Google map below, followed by video on the USS Nitze
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7. In February 2022, Turkey closed the Bosphorus passage from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea for all vessels which do not have a national port within the Black Sea. This means, US war ships are not allowed to cross from the Med-Sea through the Bosporus into the Black Sea, from where Russia may be vulnerable for cruise missiles form US destroyers, for example the USS Nitze. In the meantime, Nitze has scheduled a port call at Gölcük Naval Base, in the Sea of Marmara (see Google map above).
8. Turkey, a key NATO country, between East and West, with the crucial Bosphorus as the dividing line, is closing a critical strategic passage to her NATO ally – NATO commander – protecting Russia, the US enemy – may not be seen with joy by Washington.
9. Turkish – Syrian rapprochement, is certainly not what Washington wants. It is the latest development in regional surprises, as reported by Arab Center Washington DC – see this.
10. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s interest in a rapprochement with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is the latest chapter in his delicate domestic and regional balancing act, and it has his friends and enemies alike, especially the US, scrambling for how this development might impact them. The rapprochement, if it succeeds, would further complicate the domestic and regional dynamics in northern Syria without securing any clear advantage for Erdogan beyond, perhaps, in the upcoming Turkish elections.
11. Remember the Russian Involvement in Syria – when the US was chased out of Syria? At the request of President Bashar al-Assad – Russian military, mostly air force interference from September 2015 until the end of 2017, was largely responsible for Washington’s significant withdrawal, albeit not complete, from Syria. In 2017, when “mission accomplished”, Russian combat troops were withdrawn, but Russia keeps a nominal military police presence in Northern Syria.
12. Turkey’s Bombshell – a few days ago, rejecting Sweden as NATO member, may have been the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. For a new country to become a NATO member, ALL NATO nations must approve the new candidate.
13. Sweden says they cannot meet some of the Turkish conditions. Among them are Turkey’s accusations that Sweden is supporting members of the Kurdish Working Party – the PKK, archenemies of Erdogan’s.
14. According to a Turkish Crisis Group, some 30,000 to 40,000 people are estimated to have died in fighting between the PKK and Turkish government, since 1984.
15. Maybe there were also some Russian interests at stake in Turkey’s rejection of Sweden as a NATO member. Although peace has prevailed between Sweden and Russia, since 1809, the two countries never achieved a close relationship, unlike the situation with other neighbors. This is particularly the case with the current Swedish Government.
Turkish General Elections on 14 May 2023.
If the timing of the earthquake was part of a plan, it would fit perfectly into the coming General Elections on 14 May 2023. President Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AK Party), are currently not doing well in popularity polls.
Depending on his dealing with the consequences of the earthquake, he and his Party may gain or lose in approval ratings. Usually, „natural“ disasters do not bode well for the governments in place, regardless of whether they bear any responsibility.
In any case, new elections bring new “opportunities”. In the meantime, it is clear to most analysts, that no elections are truly “democratic” – that there is literally no election in the world in which the decisive vote – the decisive influence – is not exerted by the Anglosaxon western empire.
Replacing Erdogan with a US stooge, might bring Turkey back as the desired all obedient NATO country, no alliance with Russia, no more “sleeping with the enemy”.
Is it a coincidence that just a few days after Turkey rejected Sweden’s candidacy for NATO membership, a massive, deadly and all-destructive earthquake hits Turkey, with serious ramification for Syria, and even impacting on Cyprus and Lebanon.
Was The Earthquake the Consequence of A Terror Attack? No Evidence
Artificial earthquakes have been prompted before. For example, the 12 January 2010 earthquake off Port-au-Prince, capital city of Haiti, is suspected having been prompted by underwater / underground explosions, in order to bring huge oil reserves lodged largely around the shores of the Caribbean Sea, closer to the surface to be easier accessible and exploitable. William Engdahl’s “Strategic denial of oil in Haiti?” points clearly in this direction.
F. William Engdahl says Geo-physics suggest there could be massive oil and mineral deposits in and off-shore Haiti. See this 9-min video from 30 January 2010.
The US Air Force’s Weather Warfare.
Weather-modification, according to the US Air Force document AF 2025 Final Report, “offers the war fighter a wide range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary”:
‘Weather modification will become a part of domestic and international security and could be done unilaterally… It could have offensive and defensive applications and even be used for deterrence purposes. The ability to generate precipitation, fog and storms on earth or to modify space weather… and the production of artificial weather all are a part of an integrated set of [military] technologies.”
Study Commissioned by the US Air Force: Weather as a Force Multiplier, Owning the Weather in 2025, August 1996
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP)
The US Air Force’s “Weather Warfare” is related to The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) which was developed in the early 1990s.
A scientific report (HAL Id: hal-01082992) regarding HAARP (2011, 2014) explains that high-power ELF radiation generated by modulated HF heating of the ionosphere could cause Earthquakes, Cyclones and localized heating. The paper by Fran De Aquino Maranhao summarized the scientific findings as follows:
“HAARP is currently [2014], [the project was closed in Gakona, Alaska and transferred in 2014] the most important facility used to generate extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic radiation in the ionosphere. In order to produce this ELF radiation, the HAARP transmitter radiates a strong beam of high frequency (HF) waves modulated at ELF.
This HF heating modulates the electrons’ temperature in the D region ionosphere and leads to modulated conductivity and a time-varying current which then radiates at the modulation frequency. Recently, the HAARP HF transmitter operated with 3.6GW of effective radiated power modulated at frequency of 2.5Hz. It is shown that high-power ELF radiation generated by HF ionospheric heaters, such as the current HAARP heater, can cause Earthquakes, Cyclones and strong localized heating.”
The patents used to develop the HAARP program are owned by Raytheon through its E-Systems subsidiary.
It should be noted that with the closing down of The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) program in Gakona, Alaska in 2014 for another location, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been actively involved in ENMOD research, most of which is classified. See this
At the time of writing, there is suspicion, but no concrete evidence that the Turkey-Syria Earthquake was an Act of Terror, triggered by Environmental Modification Techniques.
The above statements remain to be fully ascertained.
Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for online journals and is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
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This is not the Israeli Nuke Tsunami of 2011 to fuck Japan!
A bit far fetched don’t you think
They can control weather but not Earthquakes, not yet.
According to the myth, the gods can control both
They target many SMALL high powered beams at the ground where the FAULTS are. Perhaps satellites are used or spacecraft which are nuclear powered. Used a microwave ever?
How do you know???
Not at all, you may have used a microwave oven. How do they do it is what we should be asking? For earthquakes perhaps satellites are used, for the weather, ships can be used. Do you recall the patterns made in the fields in the South West of the UK? We can send space vehicles to the Moon, to Mars, all over the galaxy. There was a lot in regular newspapers in the 60s 70s in England about weather manipulation. I have seen the patents for HAARP. What is the Hadron Collider really? Nuclear powered ships, space craft/satellites could target small beams AT the places where the faults are.
No, not at all
The article missed a four minute video on quake creation including Fukushima back in 2011. See GeoEngineeringWatch.org Why believe US official statements on anything? What evidence shows HAARP “closed down in 2014”? US weather wars have escalated massively. The planet is dying but no one notices? Look at massive global atmospheric aerosol spraying or look at your own air quality on web indexes. All of us breath, eat, drink nano particles of aluminum, barium, manganese, strontium, polymer fiber, graphene oxides and surfactants in our air, food and water. More need to understand the JP.
This was definitely a weapon. It is in space.
HAARP is b/s. Near the Anatolian plate most likely drilling started for the Aphrodite gas field which might have caused the earth quake. Timing of course is intentional and the way you drill can cause tremendous harm as in Haiti.
Also “they” have the capability to tunnel using nukeclear powered burrowing machines that can travel very far and very deep. Nobody would know if they set off certain charges deep underground. The US has a very vast secret system on tunnels all over North America built for the COG program. It is classified. So they know how to set off booms underground. They could be doing that all over Europe.
Another example is steeering a hurricane towards a city using chemicals in the atmosphere causing mass damage and confusion before a ground invasion. Everyone would think it’s just nature and that’s the point.
When it comes down to it, the Biden Regime would like Turkey to become the next Ukraine. The Biden Regime is especially pissed off because Turkey is a member of NATO, Turkey has restricted the use of the Bosphorus Strait and Turkey doesn’t want Sweden or Ukraine to be NATO members. There is nothing the Biden Regime wouldn’t do to fix these things and achieve their goal of “owning” the world.
My first thoughts were… ‘oh no, a jew has got hold of a HAARP machine.’
God help us all.
Building regulations in Muslim countries should dictate that only bunkers were built.
They must withstand earthquakes, bombs and other acts of war.
Quite likely. If we recall the Indonesian tsunamis. As usual though, the usual suspects dont consider that other can also play the game.
Hmm….
Are there any HAARP experts here that can show us the videos of the unusual blue and yellow streaks across the sky during the tremors in Southern China in 2008 as a “model”?… I bet someone in the Turkish armed forces or someone that just happened to be in the right place at the right time caught somethin like it on their iPhone!…
I bet there isn’t a day that goes by that Russia wishes it had never sold Alaska to the U.$. and what would get built on it 140 years later!… Talk about gifts “Giving”!…
Dr Leuren Moret done extensive research on HAARP. * http://www.leurenmoret.info/
She has proven that the Fukushima tsunami was caused by a HAARP ‘testing’ in the Barents Sea just hours prior to the tsunami hitting Fukushima. Further, since the consequences were nuclear Moret argues that it was a nuclear attack on Japan as well as on all countries who were contaminated through tides and winds.
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela accused the US for being behind the Haiti earthquake in 2010. As I remember it he knew about HAARP because the explosives theory is new to me.
Let’s just say that if Washington could do it, it would.
HAARP we hear on independent Western media talk about the possible use of HAARP to deliberately cause this event weather changing technology used by the American government with talk of the Turkish president threatening to withdraw his country from nato and a possible US response!
Lights on the Harrison in various areas just before the earthquake struck HAARP
Definitely HAARP. Btw, the people of Sweden don’t want to join NATO anyway
From what i read awhile back is HARP goes through a layer of atmospere no-one had ever gone through before. That it can cause earthquakes etc…i have been wondering about the same thing. You cant find many articles that tell much on my browsing for sure and this was prior to really sticking it to me. It also has something to do with gps and communication. Another article i read was that the atmosphere has a huge huge river of electric running through it. I personally think this wireless s*it is causing severe behavior problems all over the world. Wars and everyone against each other.
I meant to add, when i read about HARP 15 yrs ago America and Russia were the two nations that had it. Smaller versions in allied countries. I believe China is building one.
Not totally ridiculous, this has been the subject of discussion before this. Iran has accused the US of this before after coincidental EQs. IF this is really just happenstance, it is very much coincidental, especially when one looks at the recent simultaneous earthquake/terrorist attacks in Iran. I would love to see the mathematical chances of such ‘happenstance’. It’s almost as if someone knew it was going to happen.
The US will have to deal with an asteroid in New York and a massive earthquake in Los Angeles.
Now little is written about the movement of tectonic plates in the Koran or in other divine books written for illiterate people.
If there has been a shift in the slabs somewhere, you can calculate where the crack will give way next time because other parts of the crack will get more stress.
As of today, we have no way of predicting the time, place and size of a future earthquake, but earthquakes follow the cracks in the tectonic plates.
Indonesia was one of the places that experienced earthquakes after the Arabian plate shifted.
Whahahaa put down the vodka Ruskie