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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey assessing 'further contribution' to military operation in Mosul |
| 2015-03-03 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... will continue to assess its "further contribution" to an international military operation to retake djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz stated on March 2. As Ankara is currently planning to provide training to members of some Sunni tribes around Mosul as part of efforts to degrade and defeat jihadists in northern Iraq, bilateral cooperation with Baghdad in the fight against the ISIL could be concretized during Yilmaz's upcoming visit to Iraq. Turkey is part of the collation against ISIL and "has started to make a concrete contribution," Yilmaz told news hounds, amid speculation about the planned upcoming operation to force the jihadists out of Mosul. "We'll carry out the evaluation for further contribution in due course, based on our national interests. Ultimately we'll fulfill our responsibility as a coalition member," he added. Citing recent remarks by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Yilmaz said Turkey was "ready to fulfill its responsibilities if others do so too." He is set to travel to Iraq on March 4 to visit both Baghdad and Arbil, accompanied by officials from both the Foreign Ministry and the Turkish Armed Forces. During the visit, Turkish and Iraqi officials are expected to sign bilateral agreements for the sharing of intelligence information as part of efforts in the fight against the ISIL threat, according to sources. |
| Posted by:Fred |