Turkey Takes Back Promise To Fight Is, Won't Allow Coalition To Use Air Bases

[Sally]

Looks like Turkey opted out of the game.

TURKEY TAKES BACK PROMISE TO FIGHT IS, WON'T ALLOW COALITION TO USE AIR BASES

by ABE KATSMAN 11 Sep 2014 396POST A COMMENT
Defense Secretary Talks Turkey On IS
A U.S. official said, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will sound out Turkish leaders on Monday on "how far they're willing to go" in a U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State despite the militant group's holding of...

In spite of its promise to NATO to help fight the Islamic State, Turkey will not take part in combat operations against militants and will refuse to allow any US-led coalition to attack jihadists in neighboring Iraq and Syria from its air bases, a government official said Thursday.
Turkey is the only Muslim country in the coalition of 10 countries who agreed to fight IS at the NATO summit last week in Wales. Turkey is a logical staging area for NATO, as IS militants control large portions of Iraq and much of northern Syria along the Turkish border.

As reported by The Times of Israel, the official told AFP on condition of anonymity that “Turkey will not be involved in any armed operation but will entirely concentrate on humanitarian operations.”

Turkey currently views itself as one of the victims of IS. Islamist militants hold 49 Turks hostage, including diplomats and children, abducted from the Turkish consulate in Mosul in Iraq on June 11.

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Turkey Takes Back Promise to fight IS Won t Allow Coalition to Use Air Bases

 

[irosie91]

could be that Erdogan is afraid of alienating his islamicist supporters-----
turks are probably JOINING up the caliphate.-------it is even possible that
Erdogan does not want to permanently ALIENATE the caliphate
******EMPIRE******
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[R.C. Christian]

Awesome. Best news all day. It amazes me that this POS country is a member of NATO and not too long ago the stupid Europeans were hellbent on adding these scumbags to their destined to fail union!

 

[ekrem]

Awesome. Best news all day. It amazes me that this POS country is a member of NATO and not too long ago the stupid Europeans were hellbent on adding these scumbags to their destined to fail union!

Germany announced it won't join any strikes.
And what promise do we even talk about here? No such promise.

Obama proved he has no strategy at all regarding Syria/Iraq.
The last time he was forced to act was when the chemical weapons were used, he made a deal with Russia which follows this line:

- School director comes into school and kills people with rifle and knife, police comes and takes away the rifle, but doesn't touch the knfe or punishes the shooter.

Now some Americans were beheaded, Obama is forced to act.
As soon as media-coverage fades he will eject himself of this whole issue and leave the mess to those who have joined thinking Obama has any strategy or will to solve the Syria crisis.

 

[ekrem]

Off course, there shouldn't be flown any strikes out of Turkey without declaration of what is going to be bombed.
In advance.

USA dropping bombs on civilians from aircrafts out of Turkey won't happen.

 

[Kondor3]

If true, then, that's alright. That's why God invented Nimitz and Ford -class carriers.