Unlike you FRiend, I lived in Turkey for years. Unlike you, I know many, many Turks. Unlike you, I worked with the U.S. military in Turkey. Unlike you, I worked with the Turkish military, in Diyarbakir, as they eradicated the PKK (financed by syria) scum that would slither from the mountains in Spring time to kill Turkish civilians. Unlike you, I happen to know that you don't want to screw with the Turks on matters of national pride and independence, which collin powell and his arrogant state department could not begin to understand. Unlike you, I know that the U.S. assured the Turks they would contain PKK after the invasion of Iraq, and thereby gained almost unlimited accesses to Incirlik and Turkish airspace, as well as areas for U.S. special forces deployment.
Whose side are you on, "friend"?
"Unlike you, I happen to know that you don't want to screw with the Turks on matters of national pride and independent..."
This is where I stop you, "buddy", Who the heck do you think you are? Certainly not an American.
My orders had "at the convenience of the the United States Government" printed all over them.
Yours is one of the most ignorant posts I have seen in a while. Either that or you believe that sadistic treatment of non Muslims and non Turks is permissible. It certainly is for the pathological denial process that Muslim Turks live with.
Turkey is responsible for the first genocides of the 20th century but Turks have been butchering people ever since they ravaged their way through from Asia.
Fortunately, the US and Europe is beginning to realize that support of the Turk parastate does not hold any promise.
Sounds like he is on the side of fact and reason to me.