Posted on 11/17/2010 1:09:58 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Turkey said it would seek a leading role in a North Atlantic Treaty Organization missile-defense shield if it is to agree to host the system's radars, ratcheting up its conditions days before a key alliance meeting.
Turkey would demand that NATO assign a Turkish commander to oversee the shield, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. "Especially if this is to be placed on our soil, [command] definitely should be given to us—otherwise it is not possible to accept," Mr. Erdogan told journalists at Istanbul's Ataturk airport on Monday, according to Anadolu Ajansi, Turkey's state-funded news agency
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Sorry we couldn’t work out a deal. Don’t let the door hit you in the @ss on the way out.
Just like the Democrats and Republicans learned from the last two elections; actions have consequences. When the Germans got pushy in the 90’s and started making all kinds of demands for a condition for us to keep our bases there, we called their bluff and began pulling them out. Now is the time to cut off Incurlik and Ankara or at least begin talking about doing so. Included in the discussion is since we were not sure of the future of those bases, what’s the need for the shield?
For the first time in modern history, they would have to be sitting right in the middle of another Anglo-Muslim war that could change Instanbul back to Constantinople. The mis-trust of both sides for their past alliances and actions would make them the middle of the preverbial chessboard like France was for the European theatre of WWII.
U.S. out of Turkey.
Turkey out of NATO.
Muslims out of Constantinople.
Erdogen is a committed Islamist, and has been for decades. Forget the Turkey of Ataturk, it no longer exists. Turkey out of NATO!
Yes, I am a troublemaker.
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