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| The Grand Turk | |
| Turkish military reveals peshmerga training details | |
| 2015-12-06 | |
| [AA.TR] The Turkish military has released details of a training program for Kurdish peshmerga fighters it has been running in Iraq. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has cautioned against misunderstandings, saying, " ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has no designs on any country's land." The army statement comes in the wake of Friday's deployment of around 150 Turkish troops to replace training forces in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , northern Iraq. Along with the troops, 20 to 25 tanks were also dispatched to the area. Turkish army sources said Saturday that they had been training fighters across four provinces in northern Iraq to combat Daesh [Islamic State]. The fresh Turkish troops arrived in Mosul, Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) spokesperson Sefin Dizayi confirmed in a statement. According to the KRG, Turkish military equipment and experts are to replace an existing unit in the northern Iraq. The new arrivals will be stationed at different military camps in the Mosul region plus the Soran and Kalacholan districts near the Iranian border. According to the Turkish military, peshmerga forces have been trained against homemade explosives and to use heavy machine guns, mortars and artillery. They also received first-aid training. More than 2,500 peshmerga, including high-ranking officers, have attended the Turkish training, the military added. KRG deputy peshmerga minister, Major-General Karaman Kemal Omar, said that the training given by Turkish soldiers made a huge contribution to an operation by Iraqi Kurdish forces to retake Sinjar district from Daesh [Islamic State] on Nov. 12. Turkish Prime Minister Davutoglu said Saturday that Ankara's struggle was against terrorist organizations. "Nobody should infer wrong meanings from our assistance. Turkey has no designs on any country's land. It does not and it cannot."
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 And comments from Washington and the Pentagon. Crickets chirping. |
| Posted by: Spomong Bourbon8696 2015-12-06 14:00 |