Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan participates in the Victory Day reception at the presidential palace in Ankara on Aug. 30. AA photo
Posted on 08/31/2013 8:24:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
"A limited military action will not satisfy us. It [the intervention] should be like in Kosovo," Erdoğan was quoted by daily Hürriyet as saying during the Victory Day reception at the presidential palace on Aug. 30.
A few minutes earlier, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had given signs during a press briefing in Washington that the United States would act following last week's chemical attack in Syria, but said its response would be "tailored."
Erdoğan told reporters that the intervention could take place next week.
"Looking at what Kerry has said, there could be an intervention prior to the G-20 summit. This intervention should not be a one or two days hit-and-run, but push the regime to the point of collapsing," he said.
The G-20 summit is due to start on Sept. 5 in Russia's imperial capital St. Petersburg.
Erdoğan said Turkey had made efforts to solve the issue diplomatically up to now, but had been unsuccessful. "We did not get any result for eight months. We had some work with Russia and Iran too, but we didn't get any results either," he added.
Answering a question, the prime minister also said that authority was with President Abdullah Gül with regard to mobilizing Turkish troops. "We don't need memorandums at the present moment. Parliament is on vacation until Oct. 4. Will an extraordinary session be required or not? We will talk about this with our president. He holds authority during the period in which Parliament is closed," Erdoğan said.
For his part, Chief of General Staff Necdet Özel told reporters that necessary preparations had been made, and he was "not worried" about the possible intervention.
(Excerpt) Read more at hurriyetdailynews.com ...
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan participates in the Victory Day reception at the presidential palace in Ankara on Aug. 30. AA photo
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The Balkans. Yeah. That’s the ticket.
He’s Hussein obamar’s big muslim brotherhood pal.
If he thinks so, Turkey can go to war with Syria.
Turkey has never been anything but nazists, with the jihad hidden under a thin veneer of civilization.
Too thin, for the good military who has been purged.
So the US had birds in the air last night on their way to targets but they never arived? Military refuse to follow orders, reversed command? Coup attempt reason for his sudden change of heart?
Another Sunni glad to help manipulate the infidels to do harm to the Shiites, also considered infidels?
No. Take a flying leap into the Caspian sea and stay there.
Maybe the Sauds want an expanded war so we’ll take out Iran for them... Turkey has reason to want that to happen also...
Then, I suggest he starts moving his tanks and gets his airplanes
in the air. The US won’t be participating.
That was my thought exactly..What a surprise coming from a Muslim Brotherhood member, Erdogan.
We’ll validate your parking, give you a raincheck and gladly pay you Tuesday for some Turkish taffy today.
But we’re gonna have to pass, a little, uh, short this month and frankly, no interest in moon worshippers of different denominations poisoning one another, no hard feelings, don’t be a stranger & here’s your fez.
Soon after the Turk left the facility, the big commotion started...
Atta Turk.
fok you turkey and your islamic demons too
FU Turkey!
Suleiman and the Ottomans, “We’re puttin’ the band back together.”
Who was the idiot that thought letting Turkey into NATO was a good idea?
Probably the US, at the time. NATO was supposed to be nothing but a bulwark against the soviets, and Turkey may have seemed pretty western-civ at the time. Of course, the Turk islamists had good help from the rest of “the west” as we have grown into Eurabia.
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