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Iraq
Iraq appeals for US help in Turkey row
2020-08-24
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has described Ottoman Turkish attacks on Iraqi soil as "unacceptable" and urged the US to resolve the dispute in a meeting with US President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
.Ankara and Baghdad have been negotiating since mid-June to solve the dispute over Ottoman Turkish offensives in Kurdistan and other disputed territories. However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
alienating The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
could pose an economic threat to Iraq as Ankara is a key trading partner.

The Iraqi constitution bans the use of its territory to attack neighboring countries.

"The only potential US card to play is the personal relationship between Trump and Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
. He could ask Ankara to temporarily halt its cross-border activities," Joe Macaron, a Middle East foreign policy analyst at the Arab Center, said

Macaron doubts that the US will impose sanctions or threaten Erdogan to achieve this objective.

On Aug. 11 a Ottoman Turkish dronezap in northeastern Iraq killed two Iraqi border guards and the driver of their vehicle. The Iraqi military called it "flagrant aggression".

The drone attack coincided with alleged meetings of Iraqi high-ranking officials with members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), who are based in northern Iraq.

Baghdad canceled a Ottoman Turkish ministerial visit and summoned the Ottoman Turkish ambassador in response to the strike.

The Kurdistan Regional Government Ministry of Interior also urged Turkey and the PKK to continue fighting outside Iraq.

Macaron said there is an informal between Turkey, Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and the Kurdistan Regional Government against the PKK in northern Iraq. He added that there is little the US can do on an issue that is viewed as low-priority.

"Turkey has military bases inside the Iraqi border and there are several pending challenges between Ankara and Baghdad, including the water quota in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers," he said.

During the 1990s Turkey launched several military incursions into northern Iraq and established a dozen military bases in the region.

Macaron says the success of any mediation will require Arab pressure on the US to become involved.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein also urged his Egyptian, Jordanian, Saudi and Kuwaiti counterparts, as well as the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
, for diplomatic backing to confront Ankara and force it to "pull out its troops who have infiltrated Iraq."



Posted by:Fred

#3  Turkey's government obsessed with stopping normalization with Israel
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-08-24 10:27  

#2  Turkey is illegally hoarding Tigris and Euphrates water. It is illegally exploring for hydrocarbons in the eastern Med. It is arming the Tripoli Islamists in Libya. It is attacking Iraq's Kurdistan region. Its jets are invading Greek airspace. It is supporting the Islamist rebels in Somalia. And yet Trump plays kissy-face with Erdogan. Explain it if you will.
Posted by: b   2020-08-24 09:10  

#1  Whacha gonna do when the EU is a no show for you. Bad boys bad boys.
Turkey sticks it's thumb in your eye for you.
Sung to the tune of...
Posted by: Dale   2020-08-24 08:10  

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