Tango01 | 29 Jul 2015 11:10 p.m. PST |
"Turkish jets launched their heaviest assault on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq overnight since air strikes began last week, hours after President Tayyip Erdogan said a peace process had become impossible. The strikes hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets including shelters, depots and caves in six areas, a statement from Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's office said. A senior official told Reuters it was the biggest assault since the campaign started. Iraq condemned the air strikes as a "dangerous escalation and an assault on Iraqi sovereignty", saying it was committed to ensuring militant attacks on Turkey were not carried out from within its territory…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
Cyrus the Great | 30 Jul 2015 8:25 a.m. PST |
The AK Party is a thinly disguised Islamicist party masking its true intentions behind a front of Turkish nationalism. Erdogan wants to be a modern day sultan and Davutoglu wants to be his vizier. I hope the Turkish people get wise to his antics real quick! |
pikeman666 | 30 Jul 2015 8:55 a.m. PST |
Erdogan suffered a recent setback, but he still is a dangerous force for turning Turkey into an Islamist state. He is a fool if he thinks ISIS would do anything but behead him as quickly as a sharp object could be located. And it is a tragedy that there can't be reconciliation with the Kurds in the face of a common enemy. But it is a real joke that the Iraqi central government is complaining about the airstrikes since the stable Kurdish province regards Iraqi "federalism" as a joke and is almost a viable nation-state. The Turkish situation is such a tragedy. Turkey has such potential . . . |
goragrad | 30 Jul 2015 9:08 a.m. PST |
The problem is looking at Turkey's history at the Ottomans rather than Ataturk for inspiration. |
Tango01 | 30 Jul 2015 11:34 a.m. PST |
Agree with pikeman666! Amicalement Armand |
15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 30 Jul 2015 12:05 p.m. PST |
Should have established that NFZ over the border, Turkish objections notwithstanding. Wishful thinking of course. |
Great War Ace | 30 Jul 2015 4:15 p.m. PST |
Three threads on the same thing, all started by Armand. Are you a Kurd, my friend? ;)… |
Weasel | 30 Jul 2015 4:21 p.m. PST |
I imagine the Turks are figuring that ISIS will wipe out the Kurds, then either be contained in Iraq and Syria or be weakened enough that they can't influence Turkey directly. |
Lion in the Stars | 30 Jul 2015 6:11 p.m. PST |
@Great War Ace: No, Armand is Argentinian. Veteran of the Falklands War, too. |
Tango01 | 30 Jul 2015 11:28 p.m. PST |
As our friend Lion have said… (smile) Sometimes the news come like this one my friend… I'm personally with the Kurds. Amicalement Armand |
Great War Ace | 31 Jul 2015 6:24 a.m. PST |
@Weasel: I sure wouldn't bank on that, not even from here, much less "on the ground". If ISIS was powerful enough to take down the Kurds, that would only increase the strength of the "caliphate", not weaken it. Then Turkey would have a more powerful enemy, and more dangerous one, on its very doorstep. No, Turkey is ed off at PKK and is waging a continual struggle against them, while trying to use the main body of Kurds against ISIS. It only confuses Westerners…. |
Tango01 | 01 Aug 2015 11:34 a.m. PST |
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