Dividing lines are emerging between Turkey and the West, marked by Turkey’s nuclear energy deal with Iran and by its efforts this weekend to use its ships to break Israel sea blockade of Gaza.

The process of Turkey’s disengagement from pro-Western forces was clearly manifested when in January 2009 at the World Economic Forum in Davos Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of occupying the Palestinian-administered Gaza Strip.

Then, just this weekend, Turkish vessels set off from Istanbul to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza from the sea, ending in intervention by the Israeli military that left at least 10 dead Monday morning.

But the main discontent of the West is connected with the initiative of Turkey and Brazil on Iran when earlier this month Ankara announced that it was ready to provide enrichment for Iranian uranium. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responded to that development by saying that there are “very serious disagreements” over Iran’s nuclear program and added that there are very serious differences with the diplomacies of Brazil and Turkey towards Iran.

On Tuesday, June 1, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will leave for Washington where he is expected to hold talks with the U.S. secretary of state “to defuse the Turkish-American tensions.”

The West is not satisfied with the Turkish policy on Armenia either. In fact, the process of the ratification of the Armenian-Turkish protocols has come to a standstill, and Western countries have approved of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan’s decision to suspend the process.

The Turkish premier also had to cancel his trip to Argentina as part of his Latin America tour because of the Armenian factor. The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that although the Buenos Aires Autonomous Administration had been granted permission to erect a monument to the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, it was canceled due to an “unfriendly initiative of the Armenian circles.”

Western experts think that “Turkey is becoming an immediate concern.”

In a much-talked about article in The American Thinker, Joel J. Sprayregen writes:

“…The transformation of Turkish foreign policy increasingly presents a clear danger to American interests. The ‘zero problems’ foreign policy of AK Foreign Minister Davutoglu advertises friendliness with proximate neighbors. In practice, this means allying with rogue states Iran and Syria (whom even President Obama recently saw fit to designate a state sponsor of terrorism). Worse, Turkey now embraces terrorist murder squads like Hamas and Hezbollah and fetes their leaders as honored guests. Turkey hosted Sudanese President Bashir, who is under indictment for crimes against humanity by the International Court of Criminal Justice. Turkey’s new alliances have left in tatters-but not yet completely dismembered-its traditional military alliance with Israel,” the article says. “A country with a worldview that demonizes resistance against terrorism is a problematic member of NATO… Our officials are hardly aware that -- while Erdogan and Obama have fulsomely flattered each other -- Erdogan uses his controlled media to incite populist hatred of the U.S.”