Turkey Announces Plans to Join BRICS

Today we read that Turkey will move further into the orbit of Russia.  This should not surprise Bible readers as we know that the Ezekiel 38 coalition including Russia, Iran and Turkey continues to form.  Turkey is a member of NATO which was formed to combat the Soviet Union, but as of late they are less cooperative with NATO than they are with Russia.   BRICS is an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa.  It’s an economic union looking to challenge the EU and I’m guessing they will try a new currency one day to challenge the hegemony of the US Dollar.  Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia and UAE also joined BRICS this year…yep!  Now we’ve got about the whole crew of Ezekiel 38 joined up to cooperate, and one day, maybe soon, they will cooperate on the desire to destroy Israel.  And Russia will want their natural gas fields while the Muslims in the group will just relish the opportunity to kill Jews and destroy Israel.  Please note that the Palestinians are seeking membership too.

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Turkey has formally requested to join the BRICS group of emerging economies, Bloomberg cited informed sources as saying on Monday. 

Ankara "seeks to bolster its global influence and forge new ties beyond its traditional Western allies," the sources said. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan believes “that the geopolitical center of gravity is shifting away from developed economies" and that the push to join BRICS "reflects its aspirations to cultivate ties with all sides in a multipolar world, while still fulfilling its obligations as a key member of NATO."

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in early June that BRICS serves as a good alternative to the EU. Later that month, he confirmed that dialogue between Ankara and BRICS nations was ongoing – coming as Turkish frustration continued to grow due to stalled efforts to join the EU. 

While Turkey has long been a member of NATO, accession talks for EU membership have faced several obstacles since they began in 2005. Turkey had applied to join the EU predecessor organization, the EEC, in 1987.  

"Turkey submitted an application to join BRICS some months ago amid frustration over a lack of progress in its decades-old bid to join the EU," Bloomberg’s sources went on to say. 

After Russia became the most sanctioned nation in the world following the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022, the BRICS bloc began seriously pursuing the creation of a common currency to de-dollarize trade and circumvent western sanctions. 

A coalition initially made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, BRICS at the start of this year expanded for the first time since 2010 to include Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, and the UAE.

Palestine’s ambassador in Moscow, Abdel Hafeez Nofal, said on August 26 that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is planning to apply to join BRICS.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/turkey-formally-requests-join-brics-citing-frustration-eu-bid