Posted on 10/01/2014 6:39:56 AM PDT by markomalley
The fundamentalist terror organization the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, has reportedly surrounded the Turkish territory in Syria the Tomb of Suleyman Shah.
ISIS State has surrounded the Tomb of Suleyman Shah in Syria, the sole piece of Turkish soil outside its borders. 36 Turkish soldiers are reportedly located at the tomb where they defend the territory.
According to Çetiner Çetin of the daily Turkish newspaper Yeni Şafak, leaders of Arab tribes have confirmed that 1100 ISIS militants are deployed around the tomb as of late Monday night.
Local sources claimed that militants have been pouring to the area for the past three days and it is a matter of time for them to take 36 Turkish soldiers as hostages.
Around 420 militants blocked the entrance to the tomb in the village named Cadde, with the belief that it is the first spot that Turkish Armed Forces would attack the ISIS.
It is also interesting as Turkey is a member of NATO. Perhaps if ISIS attacks this site the full force of NATO can be brought to bear on them.
If these Turkish soldiers are anything like the Turkish soldiers I've heard stories about who fought beside US troops in Korea, then I'm not at all sure it will be a matter of simply "taking them hostage".
The U.S. is already bombing them. What more do you want NATO to do?
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This is the excuse Turkey needs to drop its support of ISIS. Turkey cannot remain a trusted NATO member if it continues to remain a conduit for ISIS recruits and stolen oil. Their territorial integrity is also at risk. Without Western support part of Turkey would become Kurdistan.
VERY interesting point.
what about air support?
Is this the tomb of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, who ruled the Ottoman Empire at its zenith?
If so, it is a holy site for all Turks, and they will attack ISIS with their own brand of savagery, demonstrated as recently as 1915.
Turkey is still occupying one half of Cyprus which they invaded in 1975. Turkey choose to engage in an ethnic conflict that is still not resolved because they are an occupying power. Israel should remind the world at the UN the next time a Turkish Ambassador opens his mouth about the West Bank or Gaza.
Send the AC-130.
NATO?
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NATO?
lol
"The Tomb of Suleyman Shah (Turkish: Süleyman Şah Türbesi) is a sovereign exclave of Turkey situated in Aleppo, Syria. It is the burial place of Suleyman Shah, the grandfather of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire."
First time I ever ran into the word "exclave," by the way.
Well, for starters I would like NATO to pick up some of the workload. NATO has never been truly tested as an alliance by a “real” war.
This whole struggle goes deeper than just ISIS. It is a cultural war that needs to be fought and won by the West.
With the disgusting bombing in Libya "to protect the defeated rebels as they returned home" and with using their strength to prod into Russia's traditional sphere of influence, NATO troops have shown what they've become. They're the military for EU bankers and the rest of the global elite.
But, yeah, that's interesting. Could ISIS be making their first really big mistake?
I predict about 1100 ISIS casualties, with the majority dying from knife wounds.
“Exclave” - new to me, too.
But....! That sounds like the modern Turks would regard that tomb as sovereign Turkish territory, and they will attack in order to defend it.
Stay tuned.
Yes, I doubt they will destroy this tomb, or harm the Turkish soldiers, seeing that they seem to have some sort of working arrangement with Turkey.
If they protect the Tomb, their own crazy-whackos turn against them. (And they have a stratospheric percentage of crazy whackos.)
Popcorn time, in a tense, nervous kind of way.
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