Just Par for the course.
Posted on 08/02/2016 7:54:19 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Turkey's president on Tuesday accused the West of "supporting terror and standing by" those who plotted last month's attempted coup, just 24 hours after the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff traveled to Ankara in an attempt to diffuse tensions between the NATO allies.
The incident is the latest indication that Washington is underestimating the degree to which Turkey's leadership genuinely believes that the US is complicit in the coup attempt, not least because of its willingness to harbor an exiled cleric and former political leader accused by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of plotting the uprising.
Accusations about complicity hurled at various US officials in the weeks following the coup attempt were initially perceived by many in the West as conspiracy theories peddled by an increasingly paranoid Erdogan. But, as Istanbul-based journalist William Armstrong reported for War on the Rocks, those accusations "are getting bolder by the day."
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Turkey just wants NATO nukes.
Well then, give them the nukes...
Bah.
Turkey isn’t worth what we pay it and knows it.
Just Par for the course.
Russian Navy Patriot, Are you stirring the pot for any reason in particular here?
CUT THEM LOOSE and kick them out of NATO.
Everything that follows after that will be better than it is now.
well Obama does a track record in Eqypt, Libya and Syria of supporting the overthrowing of governments. I don’t blame anyone for not trusting Obama. However in this case Turkey may just want to blame an external party so they can consolidate their power.
Bull. Erdogan staged that coup. He's playing a much deeper game.
All BS.
ALL OF IT!
Turkey’s gone FULL MUZZIE, now. The relationship—whatever it was—is OVER. The so-called revolt was A FAKE! WE are to be considered KAFFIR, so deal with it.
TURKEY/NATO?? FAAGEDDABAATIT!
Don't worry Erdy, I've got Lodi on the job for you.
Make Istanbul Constantinople again.
The EU wants a relationship with Turkey so badly, that they are willing to forgive them for running a policy of open borders - contrary to international conventions - and now the EU wants to allow anyone carrying a Turkish passport free travel across borders in Europe!
Only the rage of local people is holding the EU govts back from enacting this wild idea.
Get out of the EU everyone! Fast as you can!
OK by me, I always thought that Greece and Armenia should have a common border, and it only takes a little bit of Lithium to calm the Turks down and give them a whole new attitude.
Throw them out of NATO.
Let thew Russians have them.
Not too hard to fathom, considering the shitstains controlling US foreign policy. ISIL is a creation of such.
That has to be the most inane thing I have read in months. Well, next to Obama saying Trump wasn't qualified, and...
There is no allegation of any fact supporting the proposition that America had involvement in this coup but the article proceeds, nevertheless, to fault America merely because the Turkish government is insinuating such an involvement and the American government has failed successfully to refute the insinuations.
There is much we do not yet know. Given Obama's misadventures in opposing the uprising in Iran, in opposing the coup in Egypt, in overthrowing Qadhafi in Libya, in being on all sides of all issues in Syria, in failing to timely oppose the takeover of much of Iraq by Isis, one has to question whether there is any involvement by this to the ministration in the abortive coup in Turkey. But that is not evidence.
We do not know whether Erdogan is slipping into a real and dangerous Islamist governing policy or whether he is merely diverting attention from Turkey's very real economic woes which might have been the real reason for the coup, to a favorite whipping boy, the United States.
It is disconcerting that this article reports that it's so easy to perpetuate general belief that the United States organized the coup.
I have to assume we all know incilirk is under siege yes? At this point turkey should worry about what we “feel.”
I think we should have Hungry take care of Turkey......
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