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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey's determined fight against Daesh |
| 2016-07-16 |
| [AA.TR] More than 5,300 ISIS suspects have been detained so far in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... as part of the country’s intense fight against terrorism, security sources confirmed Friday. According to data Anadolu Agency correspondents compiled from police and military sources who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media, a total of 5,310 people were held, of which 1,654 have been remanded into custody. In the first half of 2016, 1,654 people were detained, 791 of them foreigners, the sources said. Turkey has also shared information about more than 50,000 suspects with 144 countries to help thwart ISIS's terrorist activities, while deporting 3,500 people belonging to 98 nationalities, according to the sources. Turkey has been taking steps to crack down on ISIS ever since the group conducted a string of suicide kabooms in Turkey. The Turkish military has also been shelling ISIS targets in Syria, as the group has launched rockets into southern Turkish cities near the Syrian border. On June 28, the group was responsible for killing 45 people and injuring more than 200 others at Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport when three jacket wallahs, all foreign nationals, opened fire and blew themselves up at the international terminal. In addition to the airport blast, ISIS has been linked to a number of other suicide kabooms in Turkey in recent months, including the March attack in Istanbul’s Taksim Square that killed five people, the January attack in Sultanahmet, Istanbul that killed 12 German tourists, and the October 2015 attack on a rally in Ankara that killed 103 people. Turkey’s multi-pronged strategy for fighting ISIS Turkey’s strategy in the fight against the ISIS terror organization is made up of four main categories. Security operations against groups inside the country thought to have links with ISIS make up only one of these. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Before booting Turkey out of NATO, consider where Turkey would go in response. They likely wouldn't turn to Erdogan is more likely to turn to Iran. A Turk-Persian axis could then begin to force larger changes in the Middle East. It would put Turkey into Assad's camp, bring them into supporting Hezbollah, and put pressure on Jordan and the Gulf states. It would break whatever bonds exist between Turkey and Israel. It would provide markets for Iran and allow Iran to funnel arms. So think carefully before you boot Turkey out of NATO -- they can be inside peeing out, or outside peeing in... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2016-07-16 10:59 |
| #1 The Turkey of today is not the Turkey of the nineteen sixties. Thus, if Trump wins the presidency one of the first jobs his foreign affairs team should undertake is a reevaluation of our relationship with Turkey. Turkey no more belongs in NATO than it does in the EU. If we support and guarantee the survival of a strong united Kurdistan there would be no need for the present Turkey-US [putative] alliance. |
| Posted by: Voldemort Barnsmell8316 2016-07-16 09:53 |