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Turkish Media Say Saudi Arabia, Turkey May Strike In Syria
The New York Times ^ | February 13, 2016 | By The Associated Press

Posted on 02/13/2016 5:40:05 AM PST by Strategy

ISTANBUL -- Turkish media are quoting Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu as saying his country and Saudi Arabia may launch ground operations against the Islamic State group in Syria.

After taking part at a security conference in Munich, Cavusoglu said Saudi Arabia was "ready to send both jets and troops" to Turkey's Incirlik airbase.

"Turkey and Saudi Arabia may launch an operation (against IS) from the land," Saturday's edition of the Yeni Safak pro-government newspaper quoted him as saying.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Syria
KEYWORDS: assad; iran; isis; risk; russia; saudiarabia; shiites; sunnis; syria; turkey
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1 posted on 02/13/2016 5:40:05 AM PST by Strategy
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To: Strategy

In other words, the Kurds will come under attack.


2 posted on 02/13/2016 5:46:18 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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I would suggest the Kurds are part of the effort in Syria and Iraq but not the PKK which are different still.


3 posted on 02/13/2016 5:49:40 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: Strategy

Alot of ominous Twitter traffic today. But don’t worry John Kerry is working out another cease fire plan. On second thought, PANIC.


4 posted on 02/13/2016 5:51:41 AM PST by McGruff (if Making America Great Again is your thing Trump is your guy)
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To: Strategy
The Turks and Saudis had better watch out for the Russians. They will get their clocks cleaned if they cross swords with the Russians. Yes, Turkey is part of NATO, but that organization is too atrophied to fight even the Russians. Besides, none of the Euros want to think about anything except their welfare checks arriving on time (and their self-infliced Muslim migrant problems).
5 posted on 02/13/2016 5:53:44 AM PST by MasterGunner01 ( To err is human, to forgive is not our policy -- SEAL Team SIX)
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To: Strategy
Now everything becomes a sideshow to the main event, a Russo-Turkish war.
6 posted on 02/13/2016 6:04:58 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: Strategy

Unless it is worked out through back channels before hand, such a move has the real danger of bringing Turkish and Saudi forces into contact and conflict with Iranian and Russian forces.

If that happens, you will see a widening war.

Remember, Turkey is a member of NATO and if they provoke Russia and/or Iran into conducting air attacks into Turley, there is a real danger NATO gets pulled into the fighting to defend a NATO member.

If NATO gets pulled into it there...Europe may easily go up as well.

Very dangerous moves here...and it is happening because of an absolute lack of leadership from the US.

This entire fiasco was a nightmare cooked up by Obama and Clinton for their “Arab Spring.”

There never should have been attacks into Syria.

There never should have been attacks into Libya which resulted in Benghazi.

There never should have been a Muslim Brotherhood revolution in Egypt...which (thank God) ended up with the Egyptian Military and the Egyptian people over throwing it.


7 posted on 02/13/2016 6:24:12 AM PST by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Strategy

There has been a large amount of talk in recent days about the possibility of Saudi intervention in Syria, now however Turkey seems to also want to join in on the action. Within the last few hours, key developments in southern Turkey have shown the war in Syria could be about to transform into a full scale international conflict.

The most important of these developments is the announcement by Turkey that it could conduct a joint operation in Syria with Saudi Arabia. According to AFP, the Turkish Vice Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that should there be a strategy, “ground operations” were possible. Such comments, made at the Munich Security Conference, come just hours after the announcement by the Saudi Ministry of Defense that it would be deploying warplanes to the Incirlik Airbase in southern Turkey. Turkish officials have also confirmed that these planes would be used in an anti-ISIS role, as opposed to simply for training.

http://www.conflict-news.com/saudi-arabia-and-turkey-close-to-intervening-in-syria/


8 posted on 02/13/2016 6:25:40 AM PST by McGruff (if Making America Great Again is your thing Trump is your guy)
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To: MasterGunner01; Strategy

Everybody wants to smack ISIS, but the Saudis and the Turks are no great friends of Russia or Iran or their puppets the Assads. Once ISIS is gone, it will be once again the Sunnis against the Shiites, with Russia on the side of the latter.


9 posted on 02/13/2016 6:26:23 AM PST by Genoa
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To: Strategy

Nothing to worry about from the Saudis at least - they are trained as an internal security force, and are incapable of acting externally without being cut to pieces. Worse, if the Saudis do sent them, then there are huge holes in its own internal security, leaving the entire country at risk.


10 posted on 02/13/2016 6:30:21 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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And . . . Russia says we’ll lead, you follow. (It will be a bumpy ride between now and next January.)
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/02/13/world-is-fighting-new-cold-war-russias-medvedev-says.html?intcmp=hpbt1


11 posted on 02/13/2016 6:37:58 AM PST by Genoa
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To: Genoa

ISIS is now in territory controlled by the US ... Russia controls all west of Raqqa.

The Saudis are full of bluster and have no troops trained for external operations. Their military is maxed out between Yemen (next door to Saudi) and maintaining a lid on the Shia bordering Iran in Saudi.

ISIS may not be gone for a long time, if it is up to US forces practicing a kinder gentler war using lawyers to determine targeting. US ROEs would have to resemble the Russians to be effective: kill them all, let their deity sort it out. Which is actually the only way to win a war, anything else just increases the dead and postpones the end.


12 posted on 02/13/2016 6:39:00 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Genoa

Add this to the equation:

The relationships between NATO and Russia have slid down toward a new Cold War, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a panel discussion during the Munich Security Conference, describing NATO’s policy as “unfriendly and not transparent.”

https://www.rt.com/news/332351-medvedev-munich-nato-cold-war/


13 posted on 02/13/2016 6:52:54 AM PST by McGruff (if Making America Great Again is your thing Trump is your guy)
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To: Genoa
Before Obama was persuaded to do the will of the Saudis and undermine the Syrian government of Assad, the way things broke down was this: Assad is an Alawite Muslim and they rule Syria. Christians, Druze Muslims, and Shi'ite sects are part of this ruling alliance. Together they make up 26 percent of the country's population; the other 74 percent are Sunni Muslims. The Sunnis, backed by the Saudis and some other Gulf States have been trying to topple Assad.

Assad has turned out to be stronger than all anticipated. The rebels, composed of several groups, have morphed into this ISIS monster. The Kurds have been holding off ISIS encroachment and Assad is being backed by the Russians. The Turks have been backing the rebels and supplying aid and support — funneled in by Obama’s CIA and State Department via Libya. Right now, the Russian aid to Assad appears o have given him the upper hand in this civil war. We shall see. As for John F’ing Kerry's “ceasefire” — good luck with that.

14 posted on 02/13/2016 6:55:56 AM PST by MasterGunner01 ( To err is human, to forgive is not our policy -- SEAL Team SIX)
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To: Strategy

Excellent.

The Turks already bloodied the bully’s nose by shooting down one Russian jet and this will be a good follow up. With Russia being fought in Syria, it will also let Ukraine and other European countries to get rid of Putins henchmen in their respective countries.

Putin will be humiliated and run out of office. Maybe the Russians can then join everyone else in the 21st century


15 posted on 02/13/2016 6:59:15 AM PST by cassiusking
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To: Strategy

Why? Theocracies are not interested in individual freedom and liberty. Could this be a parallel to the Iraq invasion of Kuwait?


16 posted on 02/13/2016 7:16:36 AM PST by Son House (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; the Original Legislative Fraud.)
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To: Strategy

Saudi FM: Yemen action aimed at thwarting Iran, Hezbollah
Adel al-Jubeir tells Munich meet that Riyadh has ‘no ambitions beyond its borders,’ is guided by pragmatism

By GEIR MOULSON
February 12, 2016, 10:01 pm 0

MUNICH (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister on Friday defended his country’s foreign policy and its stance in Yemen and Syria, insisting that the kingdom has no ambitions beyond its borders. Its actions in Yemen, Adel al-Jubeir said, were aimed at preventing a “radical militia allied with Iran and Hezbollah” from seizing power.

Since taking power last year, King Salman has led his country toward an aggressive new stance, confronting longtime regional rival Iran by leading a military coalition fighting Iranian-allied rebels in Yemen. Riyadh is also one of the main opponents of President Bashar Assad’s government in Syria.

(...)

http://www.timesofisrael.com/saudi-fm-yemen-action-aimed-at-thwarting-iran-hezbollah-ally/


17 posted on 02/13/2016 7:46:58 AM PST by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: Strategy

Putin has already moved front line air to air units and modern air defense systems into the area. He’s ready and waiting. And itching to pay back the Turks for the murdered Russian pilot.

Shooting down Turkish planes over Syria shouldn’t trigger NATO obligations. But the Turkish pilots would be better off going after their own government than going after the Russians.


18 posted on 02/13/2016 7:50:33 AM PST by PAR35
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(CNN)Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says the strained relationship between his country and the West can be described as a “new Cold War. At a security conference in Munich, Germany, on Saturday, Mevedev called NATO’s policy toward Russia “unfriendly and opaque,” saying, “Sometimes I wonder if this is 2016 we live in or 1962.”


19 posted on 02/13/2016 7:51:12 AM PST by McGruff (if Making America Great Again is your thing Trump is your guy)
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To: cassiusking

cassiusking
Since Jan 16, 2016

Been working for Soros long?


20 posted on 02/13/2016 7:51:54 AM PST by PAR35
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