"Turkey's Purges Are Harming The War Against ISIS" Topic

"Turkey has begun overhauling its armed forces following a failed coup, but its NATO ally the United States complained that the purges of generals and officers were hindering cooperation in the fight against Islamic State.

The military announced late on Thursday the promotion of 99 colonels to the rank of general or admiral, part of a shake-up that left General Staff chief Hulusi Akar and the army, navy and air force commanders in their posts.

The announcement came shortly after the dishonorable discharge of nearly 1,700 military personnel over their alleged roles in the abortive July 15-16 putsch, in which at least 246 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured. About 40 percent of all generals and admirals have been dismissed since the coup…"
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Turkey is saying that these purges will actually enhance the fight against the Islamic State ….
"Turkey: military purge good for 'IS' fight"
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I don't trust in Erdogan… he knows that if you fire and/or imprison a good part of your senior military staff, it will impact in your war operations… let's see if this would happened against the Kurds only…

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Maybe if they ( Turkey ) stopped fighting the Kurds and stopped lobbying the west , so we could actually give the Kurds some weaponry that they needed .

No, that can't be right.

Just a week or two ago they were saying that ops would not be affected.

Of course………..

Well first up, no one (apart from the Kurds) is really interested in fighting daesh. There is a civil war going on in Syria, so that takes up most peoples time.

The Turks do not want the Kurds to have a separate state, so they will not support them.

Turkey is OK, its not under attack. So sorting out their internal problems will take priority. In fact that was one of the reasons for the failed coup. the Turkish government was proposing to cosy up to Russia and Assad. That only leaves the problem of 2.5m Syrians in Turkey. But if they can claim that Turkey is not a safe country, they could up sticks and move further into Europe.

I just don't think the Turks really have their "heart" in this conflict with Daesh, AQ, etc., …

You are right. But no one has. First Assad needs to be be deposed and the Syrian civil war ended. Then Syrians can get on with cleaning up Syria. And thats going to be a big project after 5 years of war.

As I said on another thread, Assad really is no big threat to the West. And he's not going anywhere as long as he has Russian support. Let them clear out Daesh in Syria. They will have to sooner or later to completely "liberate" his county. Daesh is a threat to the West. Assad not so much …

I would have hoped the US has learned after getting rid of Saddam, Gaddafi and even in A'stan. That sometimes, no matter how bad these dictators/tyrants, corrupt, weak, self serving "leaders", etc. are … I think it should be clear it was "better" for much of the rest of the world, etc., when these horrible leaders were still around. That can be easily seem with what has happened in Iraq, Libya, and even in A'stan. The #1 priority of the West must be getting rid of Daesh. By supporting the local forces in this very critical mission, IMO …