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Turkey Leaks Secret Locations of U.S. Troops in Syria
Daily Beast ^ | 7/19/2017 | Roy Gutman

Posted on 07/19/2017 12:13:37 PM PDT by thoughtomator

ISTANBUL—In the latest display of Turkish anger at U.S. policy in Syria, the state news agency has divulged the locations of 10 U.S. military bases and outposts in northern Syria where the U.S. is leading an operation to destroy the so-called Islamic State in its self-styled capital of Raqqa.

The list published by the Anadolu news agency points to a U.S. presence from one end to the other of the Kurdish self-administration region—a distance of more than 200 miles. The Anadolu news agency even listed the number of U.S. troops in several locations and in two instances stipulated the presence of French special forces.

Turkey has openly criticized the Trump administration—and the Obama administration before it—for relying in the battle against ISIS on a militia led by Kurds affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK. A separatist movement now at war with Turkey, the PKK has been listed by the U.S., EU, and Turkey as a terror organization.

To avoid the appearance of allying with such a group, the U.S. military set up the Syrian Democratic Forces, which have a large component of Arab recruits. But they are led by officers from the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the Syrian affiliate of the PKK.

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: syria; turkey
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Who authorized this?

1 posted on 07/19/2017 12:13:37 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: thoughtomator

Turkey is not an ally and should be treated as a hostile country.

Which, I guess, kind of puts us in the same relationship as Russia has with Turkey.

You cannot make nice with a scorpion.


2 posted on 07/19/2017 12:16:57 PM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between Illinois and Venezuela, is that toilet tissue is still available in Illinois.)
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To: thoughtomator

This is literally an act of war, and demands a response.


3 posted on 07/19/2017 12:18:13 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: thoughtomator

The United States should move their military forces from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey to the New Republic of Kurdistan.


4 posted on 07/19/2017 12:19:44 PM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: alloysteel

Maybe it’s time for this particular Turkey to be carved up. One slice for the Greeks, one slice for the Kurds, one slice for the Armenians, one slice for the Cypriots, and the Pope’s Nose for the ethnic Turks.


5 posted on 07/19/2017 12:21:39 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: thoughtomator

US doctrine on battlefield is shoot, move, communicate.


6 posted on 07/19/2017 12:21:58 PM PDT by xzins ( Support the Freepathon! Every donation is important.)
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To: thoughtomator

Trump to Erdogan: Nice little country ya got there. Be a shame sumthun should happen to it.


7 posted on 07/19/2017 12:22:35 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: thoughtomator

“Who authorized this? “

The US Congress with the AUMF in 2001, right after 911.

It’s a blank check for any POTUS and allows Congress to look the other way, being derelict in their duties.

And, a friggin’ travesty.


8 posted on 07/19/2017 12:30:40 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: thoughtomator
I think everyone knew the general areas we are operating in.
Still, this will give us more reason to slap them if they get in our way - we still owe them for not letting us disembark a division in the north during Iraqi Freedom, which would have sealed off the dirtbags trying to flee into Syria.
9 posted on 07/19/2017 12:45:07 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Windflier

We need to recognize an independent Kurdistan. The Kurds have been the only reliable allies against ISIS.


10 posted on 07/19/2017 12:56:39 PM PDT by CaptainMorgantown
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ISIS is Turkey’s plausibly deniable expeditionary force.

Al Qaeda is Saudi Arabia’s.


11 posted on 07/19/2017 1:03:16 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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To: Windflier
This is literally an act of war

And the US having basis in a country without its permission isn't?

12 posted on 07/19/2017 1:22:21 PM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: thoughtomator

I have been offline for a few days and I come back to this crap? GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.


13 posted on 07/19/2017 1:25:26 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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Erdogan is not out friend.


14 posted on 07/19/2017 1:32:27 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: grania
And the US having basis in a country without its permission isn't?

What country are you referring to?

15 posted on 07/19/2017 1:54:00 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: CaptainMorgantown
We need to recognize an independent Kurdistan. The Kurds have been the only reliable allies against ISIS.

I totally agree.

16 posted on 07/19/2017 1:55:27 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

Turkey out of NATO! Now!


17 posted on 07/19/2017 2:14:42 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Windflier

We do not have permission from Assad to have bases in Syria. There is no reason for us to be opposed to the Assad regime.


18 posted on 07/19/2017 2:15:41 PM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: Windflier

the PKK are hard core marxists; have been forever


19 posted on 07/19/2017 3:14:45 PM PDT by vooch (America First)
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To: thoughtomator

Turkey has only survived as long as it has because it has been in the best interests of a majority of European countries to prevent Russia from annihilating Turkey and therefor gain a warm water port.

My warning to Erdogan, if it becomes evident that you are an enemy of the United States we will give the green light for your destruction and there is nothing that your European vassal politicians can do to save you. We will let the Russian bear hound you and all of your fellow genocidal Turks back into the Asian Steppe. The few remaining Turks that survive will curse your name over the ages.


20 posted on 07/19/2017 3:23:18 PM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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