"YEAH!"
Posted on 10/21/2019 4:39:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
(CNN)It's no secret that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees his country as the pre-eminent Muslim power in the Middle East. He regards his vision of political Islam as competing with that of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. He frequently accuses the United States of trying to belittle his country, and ruminates about a "greater Turkey."
But does Erdogan believe that Turkey has the right or need to acquire nuclear weapons to cement its status? Last month the Turkish leader suggested as much, saying that "some countries have missiles with nuclear warheads, not one or two. But we can't have them. This, I cannot accept." He went on to single out Israel, saying: "We have Israel nearby, almost as neighbors. They scare others by possessing these. No one can touch them."
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Turkey never should have been in NATO.
Hopefully the nukes at Incirlik were removed.
If not NATO Turkey would be a Soviet satellite.
“ If not NATO Turkey would be a Soviet satellite.”
The Soviet Union doesn’t exist.
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The Russians can have Turkey for all I care.
Istanbul might be Constantinople, again.
Well a Muslim country does have nukes — namely Turkey. Why Trump allows Turkey to keep nukes is a mystery to me.
Turkey, whose leaders are once again living up to the name.
Can’t touch Israel.
So why would you want to touch Israel?
We should let the Visigrad nations eat Turkey (with Greece)
"YEAH!"
“Turkey never should have been in NATO.”
I agree. Though, there was a time where at least it made some sense, but only transitory. Rather than having Turkey become a part of NATO we should have just struck an independent deal with them, to be reviewed annually and renewed if warranted.
I was stationed in Turkey in the early 1970s, and they hated us even back then.
re: “political Islam”
NOT an oxymoron, a redundancy ...
re: “If not NATO Turkey would be a Soviet satellite.”
Good luck with that ...
re: “Hopefully the nukes at Incirlik were removed.”
WAIT long enough and they will simply degrade ....
Send an Air Force Colonel or Navy Captain over there to explain MIRV to the Turkish president.
“If not NATO Turkey would be a Soviet satellite.”
If not for the UK in the 17th through the 20th century Turkey would be Christian. If we cut Turrkey loose I don’t think much time would pass before Russia started seizing its territory. I pray for the rebirth of Constantinopal and having the Turks driven back to Central Asia.
“We should let the Visigrad nations eat Turkey (with Greece)”
Amen brother!
I see a bright shining future for him.
Very bright.
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Of course Turkey wants nukes. Saudi Arabia and Israel are a threat to everyone else in the ME. Add to that they just might be concerned about what a Kurdish northern Iraq will mean for them.
I’d say they have been rigged for ED for a long time.
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