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2023-04-11 Iraq

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Posted by trailing wife 2023-04-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
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#1 Hard to imagine it is a Turkish drone. If so, Turkey is playing with fire given the existence of its own dams on the Tigris and Euphrates. Its Atatürk Dam is the third largest dam in the world. It is a rock-fill with a central core and is located on the Euphrates River in Southeastern Anatolia.

Posted by Tarzan Grolump8219 2023-04-11 09:26|| 2023-04-11 09:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Backgrounder: The Washington Post on 13 July 2013 published an article by C. Whitlock entitled “US drone surveillance expands to other hot spots…” Whitlock’s report was general and offered little new to interested parties who have followed the use of American drones employed in anti-terrorist activity in Somalia, Mali and Yemen. However, we learn that some 40 Americans – both military and civilian – are administering “flight services” in suport of a secret drone program that operates from a small enclave within the base at Incirlik, Turkey. What the team is up to, and how the presence of US drones at a Turkish airbase benefits the government of Recep Erdogan and/or the American intelligence community can only be guessed. Would Turkey allow the U.S. to unilaterally operate drones from Turk territory? Would their be dual-use of drones? Would the United States lease Predator or Reaper drones to the Turkish military forces for their own use? Certainly there must exist a quid pro quo. No mention was made of the fact that in 2012 Turkey ended an arrangement with Israel which had previously provided it with drone aircraft. The Turkish government of Prime Erdogan then announced that in 2013 it would begin to produce the ANKA, an indigenous surveillance drone.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-04-11 11:26|| 2023-04-11 11:26|| Front Page Top

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