ISIS Is Losing in Northern Syria, but Ankara Is Unhappy

The Daily Beast ^ | 6/15/2015 | Thomas Seibert

[MinorityRepublican]

ISTANBUL — A battle in the northern Syrian border town of Tal Abyad has inflicted a potentially crippling defeat on ISIS that could impede the jihadists’ rampage through Syria and Iraq. But U.S. ally Turkey is not happy about it. In fact, Ankara is accusing Washington of foul play. Some in Turkey want their own military—which is part of NATO—to intervene on Syrian soil, and not against ISIS.

[Domangart]

The turks have filled their ranks with a date certain draft. Many of them had the pleasure of fighting the Kurds. There would be no love lost there/ Syria can supply ISIS with all it needs.

[grania]

I'm confused. If the moderate rebels we are arming fight alongside the Kurds, ISIS can be defeated. But Turkey wants ISIS to defeat the Kurds, and the US wants the moderate rebels to defeat Assad. Then what? Do we end up with a war in which ISIS supported by Turkey defeats the moderate rebels supported by the US?

And what if the Kurds and the moderate rebels attack Turkish troops, or ISIS troops supported by Turkey, in Turkey? Do NATO obligations mandate that NATO fights with Turkey to save ISIS and defeat the highly regarded Kurds?

Head is spinning.

[2banana]

So the real question is why is Turkey upset?

It is cutting into their profits.

And they are allies of ISIS

[Uncle Miltie]

“but”?

Ankara created ISIS. Where do you think all those bright shiny new Toyota Tundras came from?