Posted on 12/05/2015 5:29:59 AM PST by McGruff
Iraqi President Fouad Massoum on Saturday called the deployment of several hundred Turkish troops inside Iraq near the northern city of Mosul "a violation of international norms and law".
A Turkish security source said on Friday the forces would provide training for Iraqi troops near Mosul, which is controlled by Islamic State.
Iraq's prime minister and foreign ministry have called for Turkey to withdraw its forces.
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At least a dozen APCs and artillery.
500 men.
I expect they'll do the same in Syria shortly.
And this will piss off the Russians.
Turkey invades, bombs and goes where it feels with no regard to law. Iraq here, bombing Kurds there, Greek islands.
And they think they can drag NATO with them if they get into trouble.
“They are not in Iraq. Iraq gave that ground to ISIS without a fight.”
They didn’t fight well, but they fought. They were defeated. ISIS seized it, it wasn’t simply given to them.
The one thing we know for sure is they are not helping the Kurds.
Iraq should be divided into three parts: it’s borders have already been erased.
25 tanks, conjecture is to provide a defensive line in the north while Iraq attacks Mosul from the south.
“There must be a strongly worded letter we can send or sanctions we can impose. Maybe ban their guns.”
We can draw Pink lines in the sand and send our new warrior Amazons to defend the Pink lines.
Anyway, no matter what, it will never be Iraq again. Iran, the Kurds, ISIS, or Turkey will have that piece of ground.
Supposedly, the Iraqi Kurds who are not close to PPK are close to Turkey.
We can just sign a piece of paper banning cars that get fewer than 30mpg.
Did Iman Obama sign something like that in Paris?
“Saw somewhere on FR” is code for “I read it at InfoWars.”
Who knows? We’ll have to pass the whatever-it-is to find out what’s in the whatever-it-is.
Not spreading anything - just FWIWing - don’t take it personally.
See here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3368442/posts
comment #10:
From the PM Iraq’s website:
http://pmo.iq/pme/press2015en/5-12-20151en.htm
Prime Minister’s Media Office: The Iraqi government calls on Turkey to respect good neighbourly relations and to withdraw immediately from the Iraqi territory
Dec 3 2015
It has been confirmed to us that Turkish troops numbering around one regiment armoured with tanks and artillery entered the Iraqi territory, and specifically the province of Nineveh claim that they are training Iraqi groups without the request or authorization from the Iraqi federal authorities and this is considered a serious breach of Iraqi sovereignty and does not conform with the good neighbourly relations between Iraq and Turkey.
The Iraqi authorities call on Turkey to respect good neighbourly relations and to withdraw immediately from the Iraqi territory. Prime Minister’s Media Office
5 December 2015
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This. Of course the Turks hate the Marxist PKK and others like them, but they get along with the majority of N. Iraq Kurds, from what I witnessed there at least.
They’ve been proving counter-insurgency training to the Kurdish Persmaga for 2 years now. Now it’s expanding. Plus, I’m sure they have their own business interests there, since they’ve been the primary benefit of the massive rebuilding of Erbil and other towns in Iraqi Kurdistan.
When an entire people hate themselves you can damn well bet that they hate everybody else.
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