Does he really think the US and Russia will allow that?
Has Erdogan totally lost his mind?
God Bless the United States of America. May he guide our nation through this Turkish Snit.
Turkish Ping!
Has Erdgogan lost his Mind?
Strikes me as just sabre rattling.
Maybe the Saudis or Qataris are still trying to shovel money through Turkey, to hire mercenaries to fight Shi’ites.
If somebody is offering money, of course tribal leaders would be interested. Renting tribes for wars or raids is customary practice - but it is also customary for tribes to back out of the deal, if the costs/risks get too high. So the tribal leaders keep their fingers in the wind, always trying to end up on the winning side, having maximized payments from all sides.
I doubt that many will be betting their lives on the Turkish side at this point, with the USA visibly rolling convoys through their areas, and likely competing on price.
50 tribes. This is why Sykes-Picot was a failure and there will never be peace in Syria except under the rule of a strong dictator.
The only role he wants to play is to spoil the Kurds’ victory.
After Iraq finally rids itself of ISIS, I wonder if they would be open to allowing us to create an airbase there. Move out of Incirlik and into northern Iraq. Too bad we couldn’t trust that damn little snit of a country Kyrgyzstan and keep Manas AB. We need a major air base in that part of the world and we also need to rid ourselves of Turkey. Incirlik AB is the only reason we play nice with Turkey.
I don’t think long term we could keep an Air base in Afghanistan like Bagram. I don’t think that country would permit it...
What ISIS really is, is a Sunni-supremicist group determined to imposed strict Sunni fundamentalist Islam on its territory.
The non-Sunni’s, and the Kurds, do not want to be under Sunni-Arab control.
The Turks, being Sunni, want the ISIS members to survive and get away. The Kurds and Shiites want to kill the ISIS Sunnis. They will NOT play well together.
For Reference....... see Laurence of Arabia
The Arabs conquered Arabia and Damascus, throwing the Ottoman Turks out. However, once conquered, tribal rivalry and British intrigue prevented the establishment of an Arab state and the Frogs and Brits took over creating the mess being contested this very day