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To: zeestephen

No. Real world politics is a difficult subject - The US has national security ‘interests’ on his borders with Russia, Iran, Armenia, and Georgia. We need those assets just as we have needed them for 60 years. We would lose more than we would gain by cutting off all relations with Turkey.

If you have not been there (the border regions), it is difficult to explain.


33 posted on 10/14/2018 2:06:13 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF
I [zeestephen] was responding to your earlier statement:

“I [PIF] was referring to those ‘interests’ on the Turkish side.”

Now, you are discussing USA interests, which is exactly what I was talking about in the first place.

Concerning your Comment about Turkey always being a Police State....

I would agree that Turkey had an authoritarian government for most of the 20th Century.

However, the government and military were secular, they were anti-Communist and pro-Western, and they had good relations with Israel.

Under Erdogan, the military and government have been Islamized, they are pro-Iran, and they openly antagonize Israel and provoke the Palestinians to attack Israel.

35 posted on 10/14/2018 3:05:03 PM PDT by zeestephen
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