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2017-02-13 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Yippie: Turkey has no intention of staying in Syria

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Posted by Steve White 2017-02-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 Of course not, they will just annex the land and it will become part of Turkey.

See we're not staying in Syria! It's now Turkey and we saved fuel too!

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-02-13 01:41|| 2017-02-13 01:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Beat me to it Seeking. I had the same thought.

Posted by AlanC 2017-02-13 07:47|| 2017-02-13 07:47|| Front Page Top

#3 “true owners” = ethnic Turkmen

Posted by Pappy 2017-02-13 12:51|| 2017-02-13 12:51|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't think annexation is the plan.

Probably the Turks expect a coalition of pro Turkish militia (especially Turkmen militia) will protect the area from ISIS, Al Q, Assad's forces, etc.

Posted by lord garth 2017-02-13 12:52|| 2017-02-13 12:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Why am I thinking "Poland, 1938"?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-13 12:54|| 2017-02-13 12:54|| Front Page Top

#6 grom,

even if erdogan has imperialist ambitions, his military machine isn't up to it - partly because of his own successful purge of officers with Galenist connections or with anti Islamist sympathies or others who were just in the way and partly because he needs to keep lot of troops in Turkey to watch the Kurds and any anti Erdogan groups

Turkey has lost a half dozen tanks in Syria already and about a hundred troops so far.

Posted by lord garth 2017-02-13 15:47|| 2017-02-13 15:47|| Front Page Top

#7 (a) Does Erdogan knows this?
(b) I'm thinking Vlad tries to do to Recep what Adolph did to Yosif.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-13 15:54|| 2017-02-13 15:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe better terms would be not "tries" but rather "would like to"

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-13 15:55|| 2017-02-13 15:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Why am I thinking "Poland, 1938"?

Pretty close comparison. If one changes the Chancellor of Germany to Josef Stalin, complete with purge of Army leadership, it'd be even closer...

Posted by Pappy 2017-02-13 17:25|| 2017-02-13 17:25|| Front Page Top

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