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Turkey Okays Extended Force Deployment In Somalia
[RADIOSHABELLE] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
’s parliament on Wednesday okayed the extension of Ottoman Turkish forces serving in the Gulf of Aden, Somalia, and the Arabian Sea.

Parliament ratified a motion extending the authorization of the deployment through Feb. 10, 2019.

Since it was first approved by parliament in 2008, the Prime Ministry motion for the deployment has been extended 10 times.

The Gulf of Aden ‐ near Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
and close to the world’s fourth-biggest chokepoint for oil transit, the Bab el-Mandab strait ‐ is a strategic energy route for Middle Eastern crude oil.


Posted by: Fred 2018-02-09
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=507662