My Way News - Chinese leader visits Turkey, Syria to top agenda
My Way News reports: "Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping was in Turkey on Tuesday, where he was sure to hear from Turkish leaders about their growing concerns over the raging violence in neighboring Syria. Turkey's government says the world cannot remain silent in the face of Syrian President Bashar Assad's brutal crackdown on dissent. But China, along with Russia, has vetoed two Security Council resolutions backing Arab League plans aimed at ending the conflict and condemning Assad's crackdown on protests that killed 5,400 in 2011 alone, according to the U.N."

My Way News - EU and Turkey: talks languish, trade booms
My Way News reports: "If a project has no deadline, is it really a project? What do you call a negotiation process in which the partners can't talk about key issues? These are existential times for Turkey's campaign to join the European Union - an ambitious vision that has become increasingly ambiguous."

Comment: Why will Turkey join the Gog Alliance? Because the EU is fearful of the rising tide of Islamic sentiment in that country and so they are going slow on membership talks. Turkey feels they have earned their place at the table and are now a bit put off at the delay. It won't take much to nudge Turkey into a opposing camp.