Posted on 07/30/2016 8:09:29 AM PDT by darkwing104
Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan’s purge of political enemies after a counterfeit coup attempt has compromised U.S. led operations against the Islamic State. Many of the senior Turkish officers who were working with the United States have been either removed from military service or jailed.
After the staged coup, President Erdogan began purging the military, with approximately 1,700 military personnel receiving dishonorable discharges including nearly half of the nation’s admirals and generals.
The Turkish military had traditionally been the vanguard against the country being taken over by a dictator. Erdogan, however, greatly increased the size and strength of Turkey’s national police force, using it to counter the military and consolidate his power to establish an Islamic police state.
Erdogan further purged tens of thousands of workers, teachers, bankers, police officers, soldiers and bureaucrats. He also arrested thousands accused of having ties to the so-called Gulen conspiracy, named after Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania who was allegedly the mastermind of the coup. In order to control the flow of information, Erdogan began to silence journalists by firing or arresting them based on their coverage of national security issues.
Turkey is the host nation of at Incirlik Air Base, a key to air operations against the Islamic State. The Turkish military has been a crucial American ally in the fight against terrorism. The purge of U.S. friendly officials has been a setback in the war on Islamic Terror as it involves the loss of cooperation and coordination with the Turkish government.
Erdogan’s power-grab may very well compromise the National Security of European countries and ultimately the United States. If Turkey decides to shut down Incirlik Air Base, the Islamic State will have its Caliphate.
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Obama will be pleased by this.
There you have it: the SS, Gestapo, or both.
The Kurds will wipe out Erdogan’s new Military Rabble
That may not be a bad thing
Then give them what they want. Pull out the bases and posts. They were broke to begin with, wait till the US money stops and they can’t feed their people. It is easier and less painful or expensive to starve our enemies to death rather than shoot them. And if Russia or France steps in tell them they are cut off too. We feed and fund the world. Remind them of that.
red
Operations schmoperations. What we are doing is pussy footing around. War never changes. Until you kill enough of the enemy and break enough of their things they will keep being belligerent. Hell, the cretins in charge refuse to even name the enemy. To suggest our “operations” will be hampered is worrying about the window dressing as the house burns down around you. This is in NO way a criticism of my beloved military’s capability. Unleash them properly and this Arab Spring would quickly become winter.
‘Obama will be pleased by this.’
True,
And next he’ll find a way to quietly transfer the nuclear weapons stored at the base to this ISIS supporting wannabe caliphate,
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