Posted on 10/09/2015 5:49:42 PM PDT by Dave346
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the alliance was ready to deploy troops in Turkey. Meanwhile, Ankara threatened to terminate the natural gas contract with Russia.
According to Stoltenberg, the NATO army may appear in Turkey to protect the country from threats coming from the south. The statement was made against the background of reports of violation of Turkish airspace by Russian fighter jets.
According to Stoltenberg, NATO is ready to protect all of its allies, including Turkey, from any threats. He added that the Russian operation in Syria was a "cause for concern," Pravda.Ru reports.
Turkey has accused Russia of violating its airspace twice. Turkish officials notified the Russian Foreign Ministry of such incidents on October 3 and October 4; the Russian ambassador in Ankara received a note of protest. The Russian side has already apologized to the Turkish authorities, explaining the incident with weather conditions. However, Ankara continues to make statements against Russia.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that he could terminate the natural gas contract with Russia, thus causing Russia significant damage. According to Erdogan, Russia's explanations about the incidents with fighter jets were not convincing.
Noteworthy, the Turkish Air Force has repeatedly invaded Greek airspace. More recently, NATO aircraft bombed a hospital of Doctors Without Borders (Medicines Sans Frontieres) in Afghanistan, subsequently explaining that it was a "mistake," even though 22 people - physicians and patients - were killed.
So Russia apologized? Now Turkey and NATO want to be drama queens about an event that has been acknowledged as an accident and apologized for because....why exactly?
“The statement was made against the background of reports of violation of Turkish airspace by Russian fighter jets.”
Now is this the same Turkey and NATO that violate Syrian airspace every single day? And drop bombs? All with no UN or authorization. So in a word, illegally. I know we now have a dictatorship that decides such things, but still.
“NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the alliance was ready to deploy troops in Turkey”
And this is the same Turkey who wouldn’t let the US Army in when THEY needed to move into Northern Iraq? I guess they need us now?
Keep poking the bear obama.
I saw this a bit ago on Twitter. Unable to confirm.
https://twitter.com/Paradoxy13/status/652581279704195072
One of the comments, “please tell me the pilot wasn’t an archduke”.
Trolls rule.
Why would we defend Turkey?
Let the Kurds have it.
Erdrogan is no friend of the US or Israel.
NATO my a$$. USAREUR has become an enforcer for Islam?
LOL!
Turkey SUX.
I don’t care what Putin does to them...scrape ‘em off the earth and give the land to the Kurds.
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