Turkey will not allow NATO to share intelligence with Israel

Breitbart ^ | 2/17/2012 | Breitbart

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Turkey will never allow any third country, particularly Israel, to use intelligence obtained by a NATO radar system, its foreign minister said on Friday. "We will never allow any third country to use any NATO facility. Our position will be even more clear if it is particularly Israel," Davutoglu told a joint news conference with visiting NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Ankara.

His remarks came after some media outlets reported that the United States and Israel have carried out a joint missile test by using intelligence gathered by a NATO radar system based in eastern Turkey.

Last year Ankara decided to host in a military facility base near Malatya in the southeast an early warning radar as part of NATO's defense architecture.

"It is a NATO system and we appreciate that Turkey has agreed to host one of the facilities," said Rasmussen.

"Data are shared within our alliance among the allies. It is a defence system to protect the populations of NATO allies," he added without mentioning Israel, which is not a NATO member.

Turkey's relations with one-time regional ally Israel plunged into deep crisis in 2010 when Israeli forces killed nine Turks in a raid on a Turkish ferry, part of an activist flotilla seeking to breach Israel's naval blockade of Gaza.

In 2011, Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador and axed military ties and defence trade after Israel's refusal to apologise and compensate the flotilla victims.

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The U.S. shares intel with their Israeli counterparts( and vice versa) on a wide range of issues

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The Israeli air defense system(Arrow 2) is collaboration between Boeing and IAI.

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Maybe it’s time NATO gave membership to Israel and dropped Turkey.

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I think it is Turkey’s time to choose. Iran or NATO.The problem is the nukes at Incirlik Air Base.There are about 90 B61 gravity bombs.U.S. and European officials still maintain that the political value of the nuclear weapons is enough to keep them deployed across Europe. In particular, they argue that the weapons are “an essential political and military link” between NATO members and help maintain alliance cohesion. That is Turkey’s leverage over the U.S. But that can be solved in one massive airlift from Turkey to Israel and U.S destroy the base.

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“But that can be solved in one massive airlift from Turkey to Israel and U.S destroy the base.”

“from Turkey to Israel”

why not from Turkey to a U.S. Airbase in the independent state of Kurdistan - oh, that’s right, it’s not independent (yet???)

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Kurdistan will not last too long. They are surrounded by too many “enemuies”. Turkey has made too many incursions there with Iranian blessing. Iran has basically wiped their professional class them off the map through their ‘executions’.As of May 2010, there are at least 16 other Kurdish political prisoners on death row. Not one case has been reported as having received a fair trial.’Iraq is ready to do the same when we are gone. Do you realize that there are 200,000 Kurdish Jews that live in Israel. Jews and Christians are a protected class in Kurdistan.