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2010-02-28 Europe

Renewed tension looms in Turkey after military arrests

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Posted by Fred 2010-02-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Its the people that want the Ottoman Empire to return (AK) versus the Army and the Kemalists, who do not want a return to feudalism and the backwardness that the AK party and their Islamist & Sharia fudamentalists will bring.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-02-28 01:50|| 2010-02-28 01:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Personally, I'd like to see Gul and Erdogan kicking at the end of a military rope. I still remember how they screwed us on the 4th ID during OIF I.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-02-28 01:52|| 2010-02-28 01:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Was told by an ex-pat the rationals were evaporating, and by another the Hagia Sofia is fantastic so long as you stay in the designated area.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-02-28 12:14|| 2010-02-28 12:14|| Front Page Top

#4 His name is Gul? Like Gul Dukat? Hmm.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-02-28 12:24|| 2010-02-28 12:24|| Front Page Top

#5 I still remember how they screwed us on the 4th ID during OIF I.

They screwed us on the 4th ID because somebody in the US State Department decided to 'leak' a story that a certain amount of aid was going to be given to Turkey as a quid pro qo for letting the 4th ID through. Turkey was po'ed enough to cancel the agreement.

It wasn't a quid pro qo (as later info showed), but the damage was done. Precisely as someone in State intended.

Posted by Pappy 2010-02-28 23:10|| 2010-02-28 23:10|| Front Page Top

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