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2015-12-14 The Grand Turk

Turkey will have to leave Iraq – former Pentagon advisor

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Posted by Steve White 2015-12-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Sorry, Mr. Rubin, don't think so - IMO, de facto or wannbe "Neo-Ottoman" Turkey won't leave Iraq or other in the ME widout a fight.

Ditto as per Co-Superpowers IRAN + PUTINIST RUSSIA.

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"By increasing their presence, Turkey is giving Iraq little choice but to increase the confrontation" - Yeeeeuuup.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-12-14 02:00|| 2015-12-14 02:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Yet another non-NATO approved or coordinated action was it? Well then, perhaps it's time to say goodbye. I was ready 12 years ago.

Iraq: Turkey, the Deployment of U.S. Forces, and Related Issues
Summary
On March 1, 2003, the Turkish parliament rejected a resolution authorizing the
deployment of U.S. forces to Turkey to open a northern front in a war against Iraq.
The rejection resulted from strains within the ruling Justice and Development Party
(AKP), an inexperienced leadership, competing influences, and the overwhelming
opposition of Turkish public opinion. Moreover, the powerful Turkish military had
not actively supported the government’s position before the vote, and the President
had suggested that the resolution would be unconstitutional.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-12-14 02:01|| 2015-12-14 02:01|| Front Page Top

#3 According to Rudaw, it was the Iraqi government itself that had asked Turkey to come in and train army troops, volunteers, snd Peshmerga, with which the Ninevah provincial government agrees most heartily.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-12-14 11:39|| 2015-12-14 11:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Must be winter. No longer a vacation paradise.

Posted by Sloluth Protector of the Weak7539 2015-12-14 15:20|| 2015-12-14 15:20|| Front Page Top

#5 De latest this nice Guam AM ...

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Twitter] TURKEY SAYS HAS WITHDRAWN ["re-arranged" = re-aligned"] "SOME TROOPS" FROM NORTHERN IRAQ [Mosul], + WILL BE DEPLOY TO DOHUK AS PART OF NEW AGREEMENT WID IRAQ.

* RELATED WORLD NEWS, TOPIX > TURKEY PARTIALLY WITHDRAWS TROOPS FROM IRAQ.

versus

* OTOH WORLD MILITARY FORUM ARTIC = Pert-Blogger alleges that TURKEY DEPLOYED ITS TROOPS TO IRAQ AS PART OF A US-TURKEY SCHEME TO BLOCK FURTHER IRANIAN EXPANSION + TROOP MOVEMENTS INTO SYRIA???

And so It = Turkey-vs-Iran, OWG-Co-Superpower-Wannbe-vs-OWG-Co-Superpower confrontation for control of the ME + ME Global Federal Union(s)begins???

[SEXY SLINKY BARBARA EDEN = "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" here].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-12-14 22:23|| 2015-12-14 22:23|| Front Page Top

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