Posted on 10/14/2014 9:31:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
War against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq threatened on Tuesday to unravel the delicate peace in neighbouring Turkey after the Turkish air force bombed Kurdish fighters furious over Ankara's refusal to help protect their kin in Syria.
Turkey's banned PKK Kurdish militant group accused Ankara of violating a two-year-old cease-fire with the air strikes, on the eve of a deadline set by the group's jailed leader to salvage a peace process aimed at halting a three-decades-long insurgency.
At least 35 people were killed in riots last week when members of Turkey's 15-million-strong Kurdish minority rose up in anger at the government for refusing to help defend the Syrian border town of Kobani from an Islamic State assault.
"For the first time in nearly two years, an air operation was carried out against our forces by the occupying Turkish Republic army," the PKK said. "These attacks against two guerrilla bases at Daglica violated the ceasefire," the PKK said, referring to an area near the border with Iraq.
The unrest in Turkey raised serious concerns that a peace process between Turkey and its Kurds could be in danger of collapse, a new source of turmoil in a region consumed by Iraqi and Syrian civil wars and an international campaign against Islamic State fighters.
U.S. President Barack Obama, who ordered a bombing campaign against Islamic State fighters that started in August, was to discuss the strategy on Tuesday with military leaders from 20 countries, including Turkey, Arab states and Western allies.
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As fast as things are coming unraveled two years is forever.
Ah, Turkey our Muslim NATO ally. What other NATO countries have bombed innocents lately?
Why pretend? THE TURKS ARE NOT OUR ALLIES.
What the heck are they doing being part of NATO?
Let’s hope it ends America’s love affair with Democrat Presidents forever or at least for a generation of voters.
Just thank God they haven’t been admitted to the European union - yet.
That's what I'm wondering. They haven't really been allied with us for over ten years(Iraq II); when they denied use of air bases and strategic entry points for our forces, which didn't really change the outcome, but probably hurt us. Now they are REALLY pulling out the 'long knives'. Assholes...
Yeah, you’d think but no...
Not with Hitlery waiting to swoop in like a buzzard.
“Cuz she warned him, she did...
And we have way too many stupid people vote any more.
SOURCE: http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/instead-of-bombing-isis-turkey-bombs-kurds-wus-planes/
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F-16 jets bombed PKK targets in the village of Daglica in the Kurdish-majority Hakkari province near the border with Iraq, a security source said.
Attack helicopters also struck at PKK targets around the village of Geyiksuyu in the Tunceli province of eastern Turkey following raids by the PKK.
Airstrikes have failed to stop Islamic State from reaching the centre of Kobane, which was in danger of falling, as commanders from the US-led coalition prepared to meet overnight in Washington to discuss halting the group’s advance in Iraq and Syria.
The US response is crippled by Turkey’s denial of bases. Meanwhile Turkey is bombing a Kurdish village using American planes. And naturally no one is talking about civilian casualties. Islamic states are apparently allowed to kill as many civilians as they want.
Turkey supports IS, along with the Saudis and Obama.
Talk to them Zero, TALK to them!!! Just let the Turks feel that magic, the aura, the glow...
We need to get hold of our so-called friends and get them on board. I fear that no Muslim country can ever be a true ally. They’re just not Western in their outlook. Bush lost Turkey and it didn’t have to happen.
Turkey was aligned with the NATO group due to its prior history with the Ruskies. Well, if they don’t want to be aligned against a foe, F em, let them take on the Ruskies alone. They have been drifting into a Islamic State orbit for some time. Frnakly I believe they see their future aligned with some kind of ISIS state ala the old Ottoman empire. The wounds of WW1 still run deep over there. It has been over 50 years since we had Jupiter rockets based there anyway. They will rue the day they become a nemisis, alone, against the Black Sea Navy’s idea of free passage into the Med, so be it.
If this event weren’t so unbelievably pathetic it would be funny. This is Turkey attacking Turkey. There’s no way the Kurds are going to be easy to get along with by Erdogan after double Xing them like this. Erdogan may have just committed seweecide with this cuteness. There’s been no doubt that he was rooting for the IS to do some damage to the Kurds but now he’s made the whole of Turkey a target.
But except for the Kurds this is still moozies killing muzzies so it ain’t all bad.
Strategically we needed Turkey and Greece in the 1950’s, they gave us a launch pad and a barrier against Soviet agression in the Med, also being in NATO they would not become Soviet allies.
Calling the Stalinist PKK "innocents" is a bit of a stretch. There are no "good" sides down there (from a Western perspective). None at all.
Adnan is that you?
...the Turkish air force bombed Kurdish fighters furious over Ankara's refusal to help protect their kin in Syria. Turkey's banned PKK Kurdish militant group accused Ankara of violating a two-year-old cease-fire with the air strikes...Barack! Oh, pardon me, I just ate some tacos. Recognize free and independent Kurdistan, and stop taking Ergodan's calls.
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