Turkey denies deal with US on bombing IS militants in Syria
[DAWN] Turkey on Monday denied statements by US officials that it had allowed the United States access to its air bases for bombing missions against Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) murderous Moslems in Syria.
A government official said there was no new agreement over the use by the United States of the Incirlik air base in southern Turkey, which US air forces already use for logistical and humanitarian purposes.
"There is no new agreement with the United States about Incirlik," the official, who asked not to be named, told AFP in Ankara.
Posted by: Fred 2014-10-14 |