Posted on 11/02/2016 8:27:22 PM PDT by Lorianne
Hours after Turkey deployed tanks and military vehicles to its southern border town of Silopi — and just days after Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan said his military might pursue Kurdish fighters across the border into Iraq — Rudaw news service reported Wednesday that Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has warned the Turkish military it will “pay a heavy price” if it crosses the border.
“We do not want to fight Turkey. We do not want a confrontation with Turkey,” Abadi said while speaking to journalists in Baghdad on Tuesday.
“God forbid, even if we engage in war with them, the Turks will pay a heavy price. They will be damaged. Yes, we too will be damaged, but whenever a country fights a neighboring country, there will be no winner, both will end up losing.”
Stating that “[they] will fight them and [they will] look at them and treat them as the enemy” if Turkish forces make a move into Iraq, Abadi added:
“We are not afraid of Turkey, but the aftermath of the emergence of a new war. We do not want that. We want [a] reduction of the problems, not escalation.”
Last week, President Erdogan declared he may order his military to cross over into the northwestern Iraqi region on Sinjar. The Turkish leader claimed defense as a justification. Sinjar, he says, is the center of a growing Kurdish presence along the border.
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The Turks have long been itching for a confrontation (& they have the sixth largest standing Army in the world)
NOT a situation where our Troops should ever be placed in harm’s way. Let the kill and die, that is all those savages have ever known...
Erdogan has made it perfectly clear - the Ottoman Caliphate is already upon us!
Go, Trump, GO!
I hope Trump has sense enough not to get us involved.
I know Clinton would.
In a fight between the Turks and just about anyone else over there I have to bet on the Turks. They would give even the Russians a really hard time.
The Kurds are the only good guys in Iraq. That is why Obama has thrown them under the bus for the last 8 years.
Agreed.
Correct you are good sir! One shot into Arch Duke Ferdinand's body and his death started the hell of WWI. It was an ugly war and many died.
Today we are but one incident between Russian and American fighter jets in Syria to lead to the same insane end.
Both sides have nuclear weapons. In WWI the death toll was in the tens of millions. With nuclear weapons it will be in the hundreds of millions.
Syria was no threat to the USA. The only country Syria threatened is Israel. Israel could take care of Syria in a long afternoon if it went nuclear. If not nuclear it will take a couple of months.
Bashar of Syria is a tyrant. The alternative of him is many many times worse.
Before this civil war and extra civil war a Christian or Jew or Muslim could live and work and pray in Syria. Today the Christian and Jew is persecuted and killed at the hands of the ISIS forces we support. John McCain calls them freedom fighters. He is wrong and knows now he was wrong. He will not say it. He is part of the problem. Bashar Assad is a bad man. The forces that oppose him are magnitudes worse.
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Pull your head out of your ass Mr. John McCain. You are supporting very bad people that wish us great ill.
However I think he is no fool and his policies and Hillary's polices are but part of their plan. Neither one of them is stupid.
US should bring our troops home and put on our borders. Ban Islam here, deport Muslims, and let them fight each other in their own horrid countries. Institute a “pet the pig” requirement to enter a non-Muslim country or board a plane.
Problem largely solved. Trump is right. Getting involved in Muslim conflicts was a YUGE blunder.
Umm, Turkey is a member of NATO, if they start a war with Iraq then NATO has a pretext to suspend their membership as the NATO charter probably frowns on unilateral military action (unless it’s something containable like when the U.S. invaded Grenada).
The Turks have had trouble with the Kurds and need to find a whey out.
We need to give up on trying to turn these countries into a constitutional republic along the lines of our culture and temperament. Just too many differences really.
I see what you did there, lol.
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