Don’t forget we owe Erdogan a “big one.” He’s the jerkopf that wouldn’t let Bush 43 use his railroad to get our equipment to Northern Iraq to help us go after Saddam. In spite of Turkey being NATO. He’d just been elected and was already flexing his muzzie krap. And he whined and bitched about the Israelis intercepting his Gaza flotsam. The guy has always been bent on escaping back to the 12th century. Most of the folks in Turkey are trying to break away from that old Ottoman nonsense and this smells like he’s going to get what he’s got coming.
But when it came time for the Turkish legislature to support Erdogan or the U.S. and either approve or deny previously granted permission, it was the French who bribed the legislature to support Erdogan and deny the U.S. permission.
The mega-corrupt Jacques Chirac covering for his buddy, Saddam.