Posted on 11/25/2015 7:41:46 AM PST by Trumpinator
Ankara explosions: Reports of multiple blasts and injuries in Turkish capital
14:35, 25 Nov 2015
Updated 15:27, 25 Nov 2015
By Anthony Bond
Multiple explosions have taken place in the Turkish capital Ankara, it has been reported.
Witnesses say the blasts resulted in several popping sounds and caused a number of injuries.
Reports from the city said the violence explosions caused panic with many people taking to social media fearing a coordinated attack.
Emergency services rushed onto the streets shortly after the blasts at about 1.30pm local time.
Military personal and firefighters were also deployed. Local police said they investigated but found no evidence of a coordinated attack.
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This...as much as everyone would love to see random Turkish citizens killed due to an intrusion of Russian aircraft, usually only the PKK doing stuff like that there. Russia may cut their energy supplies as they did with Ukraine, but I don’t expect much else. And before anyone gets uppity, I enjoy seeing O getting upstaged by Putin as anyone else, but when you continuously poke us and the Turks and others with borders, expect bad things to happen occasionally. Believe me, they don’t want to go up against our military equipment (in Turkish hands). Their economy has to be in the tank pretty bad with current oil prices, so I don’t see them getting too froggy, especially with their Ukraine adventures causing many problems domestically.
Gas compression. I guess people in Turkey eat their Thanksgiving turkey meals a day early.
BAD STUFFING, I’ll bet.
It must be eaten freshly made, unless they use Stove Top Stuffing. It never goes bad.
>>Yes. This time the Continental United States won’t escape it.<<
Folks in this country will be totally dumb founded.
Yes...I was going to say that the timing of this explosion is quite suspicious!
“Folks in this country will be totally dumb founded”.
At least our side will not be quite as shocked and better prepared.
Where is Putin or Russia even mentioned in this story?
My eyes were opened listening to a tribal leader in Iraq explaining the band of the Middle East his tribe called home. Went in a swath through most of the Middle East, through 4 or 5 countries. Gotta wonder if the lines had been drawn upon tribal locations if things may have been different...
CO2 ?
So it's global warming, then?
Things certainly would have been different. Whether they would have been nicer is a different question. Everywhere the colonial powers deliberately put unfriendly tribes within the same borders on the divide and rule principle. Not just the middle east, where for example the Kurds are in 5 countries. We should really give them lots of help to gather up their separated parts in Iran, Syria and Iraq. Probably leave the PKK (Marxist/Leninist Kurds) in Turkey alone. In addition to the middle east, both east and west Africa have suffered from these divide and rule borders. For example, some of you may remember when Nigeria massacred the Ibo. Now the Christian Yoruba and Muslim Hausa are in a pickle with Boko Harram. Ruanda got unbelievably ugly with the Hutu Massacring the Tutsi. And on and on.
One solution I have thought of is to have commissions help these countries redistribute their boundaries, and declare their resources, especially the underground ones as a common property with fair rules of dividing resources among the newly formed nations. Middle east, east Africa, and west Africa are at least three areas where this could make sense.
Thank you for the correction. Add to all of that the re-drawing of borders for Israel and the surrounding area after WW2.
Is it ISIS.. or has Putin retaliated already?
If Obama tells you you’re safe, run for the hills!
Prepare now.
Does anyone with a non liberalized brain believe that all Muslims are peaceful?
How many innocent and unexpecting French citizens were killed by only 8 murdering Jihadists in Paris?
So if 1,000 Muslims move into your town, and only 1% are evil Jihadists, how many innocent Americans can those 10 Jihadists kill in a single attack?
That’d be the perfect solution, but I think they’d still fight each other.
Yeah ach-med...perhaps you shouldn’t have messed with the Ruskies
“”Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu sought to ease tensions Wednesday, calling Russia Turkey’s “friend and neighbor” and insisting relations cannot be “sacrificed to accidents of communication.” He told his party’s lawmakers that Turkey didn’t know the plane was brought down Tuesday was Russian until Moscow announced it.””
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You shoot down their aircraft then call them, “Your friend and neighbor? Poor stupid Turkey.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/11/26/russia-rescues-pilot-downed-warplane-from-rebel-territory/
Somebody lighting their fatwas..
The Kurds are an actual ethnic group, unlike the “Palestinians” — and unlike the latter, the Kurds should have a nation-state. Carving it out of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and perhaps a corner of Jordan (at least) will take blunt force trauma and struggle. It should have been taken care of during the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and eventual devolution of European holdings in the region where the Ottomans had been forced out. But it wasn’t.
Having a Kurdistan owing the US for current and continued existence would bring another island of stability to the region, and create a good neighbor and ally for Israel.
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