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2014-10-15 The Grand Turk

Turkey Paying High Price For Covert ISIS Support

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Posted by Whereter Ebbenter4423 2014-10-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Not high enough a price. Im looking for ;oss of Cyprus, a civil war, partition, and a Free Kurdistan as the ultimate price paid by Erdogan and his bunch that seems to be an Islamist version of Hugo Chavez.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-10-15 03:00|| 2014-10-15 03:00|| Front Page Top

#2 They have no business being a NATO member. They may never have had any business being a NATO member.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-10-15 03:06|| 2014-10-15 03:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Erdogan has not yet paid any much of a price for the past 8 years of being an egomaniac islamist.

He has been rewarded with election victories and someone is subsidizing Turkey's import loans to inflate the economy. The entire Obama admin has essentially been praising him for insignificant actions and overlooking major provocations.

Posted by lord garth 2014-10-15 09:37|| 2014-10-15 09:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Mark Steyn had an interesting article on birthrates. Basically the Turks are done in a decade or so and the Kurds will take over.

That leaves Turkey a few options. 1. Betray the Kurds and hope ISIS does a bit of the old Armenian on them. 2. Establish a Kurdistan outside of Turkish territory and hope the Turkish Kurds move and they get along. 3. Suck it up and be nice to the future overlords.

Clearly Turkish pride has trouble with 2 options so they are rolling the dice on option 1.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-10-15 14:41|| 2014-10-15 14:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Turkey just bombed the Kurds. Seems they are now out of the closet.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-10-15 17:21|| 2014-10-15 17:21|| Front Page Top

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