Is Turkey Going Rogue?

Atlantic Community ^ | 8/26/15 | Jon Abbink

[Truth29]

The way Obama keeps the Kurds down by starving them for weaponry and supplies and while he lavishes equipment on the Iraqis who abandon it to ISIS, he should get along just fine with Erdogan.

[sparklite2]

Whatever descendants of remnants that may have survived the 1915-1918 efforts of Turkey to eradicate the Armenians as a people might argue that Turkey has always been a rogue state.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

My BIL has dual citizenship. He made a costly trip back to Turkey just to vote against Erdogan.

[george76]

Islamist Erdogan is financing, arming , etc. the Sunni Islamic State Daesh and Boko Harum. Then giving them medical care in Turkish hospitals.

Islamist Erdogan is murdering the Kurds [ and other kafir ] wherever he can find them - like Mad Mo recommended.

Islamist Erdogan is setting up Islamic schools to brainwash the next generation with Islamic Common Core.

[Paladin2]

Well, Turkey is certainly going Islamist. Erodgen would love to be Caliph.

[nickcarraway]

What? Many Freepers have told me in years past we should bow down before Trukey because we need their air bases? Haven’t we appropriately denied any Armenian was ever killed by a Turk. etc? Does this mean we should further grovel before Turkey?

[BenLurkin]

Nobody liked the Ottoman Empire (except I suppose the Germans), but let’s face it — dismantling the Ottoman Empire led to regional chaos which is still underway 100 years later.

An expanding modern Turkey, however, can only make things worse.

[skeeter]

It would be an extremely bad idea, I mean a terrible idea, to admit Turkey to the European Union.

[exit82]

In the near future, Turkey will ally itself with Russia and Iran.

The Ataturk era is long over.

Turkey is reverting back to its Muslim ties and heritage.

They are proving to be a growing impediment to the aims of the West, and they do not care.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

“Is Turkey Going Rogue?”

Huh? They have been ‘rogue’ for centuries, kind of like France.

[Magic Fingers]

“They are proving to be a growing impediment to the aims of the West, and they do not care.”

Precisely!

[SunkenCiv]

thanks markomalley.

Meet the Americans Flocking to Iraq and Syria to Fight the Islamic State
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3329618/posts

[Zuse]

The End Times alliances are being formed to attack Israel. It sure looks like an Islamic Antichrist.

Meanwhile, the USA has been warned (9/11). Instead of humility and repentance, we have turned our backs on God and responded with sinfulness, hubris and defiance. Now comes the era of Judgment against America.

[Former Proud Canadian]

There is a NATO signatory whose air force is working closely with the Kurdsin their war with ISIS. I hope things don’t get tangled up.

[SaveFerris]

Yes, I also believe Turkey is part of Ezekiel 38 attacking Israel - The House of Togarmah.

(little bit different - but yes, the USA has elected non-Godly leaders - especially one).

It does not bode well for our country. Pray up folks.

[Cronos]

do note that most of those carrying out the violence during the Armenian genocide were Kurds

[Cronos]

Dismantling the Ottoman Empire could have been done a lot better if European, Christian, powers had agreed. When they DID agree and not undermine each other you had successes like Greek independence.

the Ottoman Turks were in retreat from 1683 -- the Russians hammered on them from the north, taking over the Caucasus and heading southward along Romania, while the Habsburgs were hammering them from the West

Then France and england interfered -- the French tied up with the Ottomans to check the Austrians. If the French had been defenestrated at this time, the Austrians would have freed the Balkans

Then the Prussians took the opportunity to oppose the Austrians by tying up with the Turks

Then the English and French opposed Russia in the Crimean war, or we would have had an independent Balkans in the early 1900s and even a Christian Lebanon and Syria

[Cronos]

Turkey will never ally itself with Iran -- the Turks are Sunnis, Turkic peoples and the Iranis are Shia, Irani peoples -- the Iranis remember the slaughters that the Turkic peoples visited on them from the 10th century -- Seljuks, Ottomans, Timurids etc. and they remember that for millenia greater Irani included what are now Turkic nations like Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan etc.

And the Iranis and Turks have allied with foreign powers against each other since the 18th century at least, while remember that Kurds are an Irani people

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Turky and Russia would never be allies -- Russia's main aim since the 15th century has been to re-unite the Orthodox lands and to take back Constantinople -- it is ingrained in their national psyche at the core -- even the Bolsheviks had this

Russia and Iran are more natural allies and have been allies in one way or the other for centuries (though the Russians also hammered at them in the 18th century, taking Azerbaijan from them

[dfwgator]

Would have been better off letting the Russkies have Turkey rather than having them join NATO. Who knows if the Russians had Turkey, Istanbul would be Constantinople again.