Posted on 12/07/2016 10:31:54 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Dozens of high-ranking Turkish military officers formerly posted at NATO headquarters in Brussels and SHAPE military headquarters in Mons are among more than 125,000 people President Recep Tayyip Erdogan alleges helped launch a failed coup against him in July. Erdogan calls them "terrorist soldiers."
Several of these officers agreed to speak with Deutsche Welle under cover of anonymity.
They want to know if any visiting dignitary is going to ask Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu for details on what's happening to them, how he'll reassure them the alliance that it can get along just fine without some of its best-trained specialists.
They are mostly Western-educated, some with PhDs and multiple master's degrees from American universities and institutions, with many NATO exercises under their belts. All say they had nothing to do with the attempted overthrow of the Erdogan government, that they denounced it immediately and continued working as loyal military representatives of the Turkish government. Yet one by one, their names showed up on one of almost 20 lists of suspects that have been circulated by Ankara to Turkey's missions abroad, usually late on Fridays.
In cover letters attached to those lists, the officers say, they were given instructions to turn in their NATO passes and diplomatic passports, told they are eligible now only for an identity document that goes one way -- back to Ankara. And most were ordered to do that within three days of being notified; some even sooner. No charges were given, simply lists of names, ranks and services and the information that they had been suspended or fired.
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As far as I’m concerned Turkey has revealed itself as an enemy of the United States and the West over the past 11 years . We should take these marooned Turkish officers and use them as intel sources to help us dismember Turkey’s islamofascists movement and save the West and Turkey.
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Turkish evil. NATO should eliminate Turkey as a member.
Or alternatively, we should take them as a simple matter of human decency and national moral integrity, if there is such a thing.
If we still lived in good times that would be the right way to go. Now that the West has its back against the wall we need to do what we need to do.
Erdogan was a big promoter of the Muslim Brotherhood President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, when the Arab Spring was in swing.
Now his army is meddling in northern Syria doing IMHO what the Russia-Assad haters want him to do, set up a ‘safe zone’ for opposition to Assad.
Thirteen years, going back to their unwillingness to help us in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
kinda like the Cuban national baseball team....
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