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Turkey Attacks ISIS

wilbur

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Finally, Turkish warplanes attacked ISIS in Syria. Is this a gamechanger?[/QUOTE

Are you kidding?

Turkey has been facilitating the transit of jihadists across its border into Syria for years. Turkey is using the useful idiots that are IS, Al-Qaida and the Al-Nura front as a vehicle to oust Assad. But if Assad was ever toppled, Turkey will never allow IS to take over. They will sweep in and install their own puppet, or simply take over Syria as one of its provinces, just like it was during the Ottoman Empire.

Turkey's army is so huge, it could easily beat any european army. Tjhey could crush IS in a couple of weeks. But they are biding their time.
 

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Finally, Turkish warplanes attacked ISIS in Syria. Is this a gamechanger?[/QUOTE

Are you kidding?

Turkey has been facilitating the transit of jihadists across its border into Syria for years. Turkey is using the useful idiots that are IS, Al-Qaida and the Al-Nura front as a vehicle to oust Assad. But if Assad was ever toppled, Turkey will never allow IS to take over. They will sweep in and install their own puppet, or simply take over Syria as one of its provinces, just like it was during the Ottoman Empire.

Turkey's army is so huge, it could easily beat any european army. Tjhey could crush IS in a couple of weeks. But they are biding their time.
Low bar.
 

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Turkey has been facilitating the transit of jihadists across its border into Syria for years. Turkey is using the useful idiots that are IS, Al-Qaida and the Al-Nura front as a vehicle to oust Assad. But if Assad was ever toppled, Turkey will never allow IS to take over. They will sweep in and install their own puppet, or simply take over Syria as one of its provinces, just like it was during the Ottoman Empire.They could crush IS in a couple of weeks. But they are biding their time.
You are probably right. Everybody in the Middle East has an agenda. So, the question is do we want Assad/ISIS or Turkey controlling Syria? Seems to me the lesser of two or three evils is Turkey controlling Syria. What say you?
 

GPIDEAL

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Finally, Turkish warplanes attacked ISIS in Syria. Is this a gamechanger?[/QUOTE

Are you kidding?

Turkey has been facilitating the transit of jihadists across its border into Syria for years. Turkey is using the useful idiots that are IS, Al-Qaida and the Al-Nura front as a vehicle to oust Assad. But if Assad was ever toppled, Turkey will never allow IS to take over. They will sweep in and install their own puppet, or simply take over Syria as one of its provinces, just like it was during the Ottoman Empire.

Turkey's army is so huge, it could easily beat any european army. Tjhey could crush IS in a couple of weeks. But they are biding their time.

Why isn't it a gamechanger? They are now attacking their pawns (according to you).
 

LickRus

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Who knows..it maybe an excuse for Turkey to crush the Kurds...in the meantime :

Erdogan's Daughter Heads a Covert Hospital to Help ISIL Injured Members

A discontented nurse working clandestinely for a covert medical corps in Şanlıurfa—a city in Southeastern Turkey, close to the border with neighboring Syria— divulged information about the alleged role which Sümeyye Erdogan plays in providing extended medical care for ISIL wounded militants transferred to Turkish hospitals.

Living in a dilapidated apartment in Istanbul’s outskirts along with her two children, a 34-year- old emaciated nurse who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, disclosed her seven-week agonizing ordeal of working in secret military hospital in Şanlıurfa, 150 km (93 miles) East of Gaziantep and 1,300 km (808 miles) Southeast of Istanbul, Global Research News reported.

“Almost every day several khaki Turkish military trucks were bringing scores of severely injured, shaggy ISIL rebels to our secret hospital and we had to prepare the operating rooms and help doctors in the following procedures," she said.

"I was given a generous salary of $ 7,500 but they were unaware of my religion. The fact is that I adhere to Alawite faith and since Erdoğan took the helm of the country the system shows utter contempt for Alawite minority – Alawite faith is an esoteric offshoot of Shia Islam,” Said the nurse.

A London-educated scion of wealthy family and the eldest daughter of totalitarian President Erdoğan, Sümeyye Erdoğan, more than once announced her intention to be dispatched to Mousl, Iraq’s once second-biggest city and ISIL's stronghold to do relief works as a volunteer which drew public ire and vast condemnation from Turkey’s opposition parties. Moreover, the Turkish opposition parties accuse the administration of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of seeking diligently to hide the truth concerning numerous financial malfeasances Erdoğan son, Bilal Erdoğan, is involved.

Erdoğan who always sheds crocodile tears for the plight of Syrian trapped between the hammer of hunger and the anvil of ISIL extremism, conceals the fact that his own son, Bilal Erdoğan, is involved in lucrative business of smuggling the Iraqi and Syrian plundered oil. Bilal Erdoğan who owns several maritime companies, had allegedly signed contracts with European operating companies to carry Iraqi stolen oil to different Asian countries.
I'm not suprised if its true.

http://en.abna24.com/service/europe/archive/2015/07/21/701681/story.html
 

GPIDEAL

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@ LickRus, well the news mentioned that they were dropping bombs close to Kurdish militant sites. I couldn't figure that one out but maybe your comment about crushing Kurds could be true.
 

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Turkey is worried about the Kurds and about ISIS. If they fight against one, they end up helping the other. The Kurds are likely a better choice to support than ISIS but because of Turkey's history...

Meanwhile Turkey also is majority Sunni and their government caters to the religious types so I'm sure there are many there with at least a touch of sympathy for the cause of IS.
 

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The Kurds are the SOLUTION to ISIS. A lot of that territory ISIS took is Kurdish or near Kurdish territory. Replacing ISIS with Kurdistan would solve the problem but the dictatorships involved don't want to give up their paper kingdoms. (Paper because at this point it is theirs only on official maps.)

It was weakly defended to begin with because of Kurdish resistance to distant capitals, which is why ISIS was able to grab it, and the national armies sent in to drive ISIS out are actually from elsewhere and don't want to fight for it.

Arm and back the Kurds and they will fight with utter determination to take that territory back and then defend it to the death because they consider it their home.
 

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@ LickRus, well the news mentioned that they were dropping bombs close to Kurdish militant sites. I couldn't figure that one out but maybe your comment about crushing Kurds could be true.
They actually bombed Kurdish camps according to the To Star.
 
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Finally, Turkish warplanes attacked ISIS in Syria. Is this a gamechanger?[/QUOTE

Are you kidding?

Turkey has been facilitating the transit of jihadists across its border into Syria for years. Turkey is using the useful idiots that are IS, Al-Qaida and the Al-Nura front as a vehicle to oust Assad. But if Assad was ever toppled, Turkey will never allow IS to take over. They will sweep in and install their own puppet, or simply take over Syria as one of its provinces, just like it was during the Ottoman Empire.

Turkey's army is so huge, it could easily beat any european army. Tjhey could crush IS in a couple of weeks. But they are biding their time.
*cough* England is in Europe..so is France, Germany. GL beating them Turkey.
 

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Germany doesn't have much of an army. The UK and France do, but Turkey is also in NATO and has access to sophisticated weaponry, so I don't know who would win.
 
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