Susan Rice’s Meet the Press claim yesterday that the Obama Administration had reached a deal with Turkey on the use of Turkish military bases has been denied by top Turkish officials, who say that no decision had been reached.
“There is no decision at the moment concerning Incirlik or any other issue,” noted Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu. The Incirlik air base, along the Syrian border, was seen as particularly valuable for attacking Syria.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s office similarly denied that any deal had been made on any base, and though it is said to be likely a deal on training Syrian rebels was made, it is clear there wasn’t one on the air bases.
Turkey is pushing hard for the creation of a “buffer zone” inside Syria to house the refugees currently in Turkey, and the establishment of a no-fly zone across northern Syria, and is likely holding off on the bases’ commitment for some movement on that.
The focus is shifting back to Iraq with ISIS just 8 miles from Baghdad. So will Obama. ignore Erdogan for now?
Funny, I was skeptical when the news that Turkey had accepted US bases ran earlier today. Reminded me of Wag the Dog, where saying something made it true. Turns out I might have been right.
BOMB Turkey. They're some sorry sonsofbitches.
Turkish Erdogan regime is up to its neck involved in creating ISIS, supporting ISIS, training ISIS even when they can see that Kurdish people are massacred by these saudis/CCG barbarians from the hilltop in Turkish side. Erdogan is scared for others to help out defeating ISIS, he knows that ISIS will come after his head if he betrays ISIS. In the other hand his serving and favoriting the saudis/CCG and NATO, those who gelt his regime to grow as a friend to Neo european fascism and SAUDIS contribution to his political idea in becoming the Neo ruller in Middle East and investment in Turkey, without these regime support Erdogan is nothing and every free Turks knows that.
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Der Spiegel: PHOTO: Turkey (tanks) stands by doing nothing while US bombs have been unable to slow down Islamic State fighters: The battle for Kobani has revealed the West's helplessness in the face of radical jihad.
He notes that a number of Islamic State fighters are of Turkish origin…
Meanwhile, IS continues to have a surprising degree of freedom of movement on Turkish soil…
Is Turkey Aiding Radical Islamists?
As early as the beginning of September, a discovery in Iraq triggered tensions between Ankara and Washington. IS munitions found there were manufactured by MKE, a Turkish state-owned defense company…
Other incidents also suggest a close relationship between Turkish government authorities and radical Islamists… http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/kobani-…
Susan Rice seems to be the turkey always put forward with administration lies. You would think they would bring a fresh face in for their new lies if they really want to fool us.
I don't understand why anybody ever pays the slightest attention to anything spewing from the mouths of the DC Dunces. Only their actions matter. It's clear from Turkey's actions that they view the current crisis as an opportunity to finally destroy the troublesome Kurds, and ISIS/ISIL/Whatever is a tool to accomplish that.
Can I safely say that this administration is up sh**creek without a paddle.
Coordinated Deceit and Destruction Across Iraq and Syria
Recent US “negotiations” regarding the use of military facilities in Turkey and Saudi Arabia to train “moderate” opposition forces is further proof of the kabuki theater and misinformation that continues to be propagated across western media. To those of us who have been closely following developments in the region, it’s incredibly obvious that there’s been a longstanding relationship between NATO and regional allies to recruit, train, finance, arm and direct foreign mercenary forces to illegally attack and destroy Syria.
These same subversive strategic alliances have applied similar tactics across the the region for decades. Most recent initiatives over the past few years have resulted in the creation of a mercenary force now being called “ISIS”, one of the more formidable and well armed western-backed mercenary monsters the region has encountered.
In complete contrast to Pentagon and US State Department misinformation, embedded and associated clandestine operatives from the US, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, Jordan and other allied NATO and Gulf State intelligence organizations continue to cooperatively plan, coordinate and direct initiatives for their new Frankenstein, “ISIS”.
More specifically, the US and Turkey are deceitfully claiming “tense negotiations” and disunity with regard to the use of its bases for operations against “ISIS” and a no-fly zone in Syria. When in fact, Turkey and other NATO members and allies are deliberately coordinating efforts when it comes to reconciling “ISIS” mercenaries. For example, US military officials and western media have deceitfully described the “bombing campaign” across Syria as a failure.
Even the most inexperienced military analyst can easily determine that coalition “airstrikes” in Syria were deliberately limited in number and effectiveness, as hardly any “ISIS” forces or advanced military infrastructure were even targeted. To give a comparison, over 1000 aircraft and 38,000 combat missions were conducted over a 10 week period during the Kosovo War in the spring of 1999, while less than 50-100 combat missions were made in and around Ayn al-Arab (aka Kobanê) over a four week period, with the majority of “airstrikes” occurring in the latter part of the second week of October, well after “ISIS” mercenaries were already in position to wreak havoc on one of the largest and most strategic cities controlled by the PKK and YPG (arch enemies to both Iraqi Kurds and Turkey). Coincidence? Hardly.
The US, Turkey and other NATO members and allies have worked closely together for nearly four years providing air defense operations and clandestine logistics, support and intelligence to train, harbor, arm, prepare and protect mercenaries all along Turkey’s border with Syria. Until earlier this year, these same mercenaries controlled nearly all the border crossings between Turkey and Syria.
In addition to cooperatively executing clandestine operations, Turkey, a NATO member for over half a century, has also continuously allowed the US and other NATO members to use its bases for decades to conduct large scale clandestine and Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) operations throughout the region.
For those of us who have worked in and around the intelligence community, it’s well known that advancements in ISR techniques provide incredible insight and command and control that is rarely, if ever, shared publicly.
For example, the transfer of advanced military weaponry from Northern Iraqi forces to “ISIS” was neither a surprise nor a miscalculation to the clandestine military and intelligence personnel who were directly involved in monitoring and directing activities across Iraq and Syria. This strategically orchestrated initiative was undertaken to accomplish the following main objectives:
1) Disarm Northern Iraqi military forces to weaken and eliminate Baghdad’s control in the region. It was widely known and anticipated that most Northern Iraqi military forces were not loyal to Baghdad and would cooperatively abandon their posts to easily accomplish this objective.
2) Transfer advanced Northern Iraqi military equipment to “ISIS” mercenary forces to strengthen their ability to threaten and oppose Baghdad, the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), PKK, YPG and Syria. The US had purposely delayed shipment of key military equipment that Baghdad had already paid for.
3) Increase military assistance to Iraqi Kurds to strengthen the KRG’s position to secede from Iraq and achieve full autonomy and sovereignty, an objective the west has has supported in the region for decades.
Qatar, the UAE, KRG, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Egypt and others in the region continue to finance and support NATO’s initiatives. The main reason for this is that NATO’s initiatives provide solutions to achieve mutually agreed upon objectives to force regime change in Syria, weaken and eliminate the PKK/YPG, establish a sovereign Kurdish state in Iraq, and further isolate and weaken Iran and Russia.
why is it that no one understands that the the call for the buffer zone is a legitimate demand. once turkey hits isis will hit back and however slight the chance isis may even win the first contact which would mea the battle would be played within turkey's territory jeopardizing the lives of turkish citizen so turkey must have a buffer zone so not to endanger its own civilians from being slaughter. and fyi americans knew isis was being heavily funded by the sauds but looked the other way because they thought isis is strictly an anti shia group which would not expand it's operation outside syria
Erdogan got his ass in a sling supporting the US amongst those were training anti Assad forces using Turkey as an assault jump off point this time he wants no part of and lie again so rice will lie.
Scott Rickard
Makes sense, a lot of sense. Why hasn't NATO "punished" Turkey? The end game must be screwing w/Russia and Iran through Syria via whipping boy Turkey and the rest of the unmentionable Sunni state suspects.
So a careerist twit like Susan would make an ass of herself for the cause while allowing Turkey to play the uncooperative role? Makes a lot of sense, but will Vlad give-up his naval port on the Med?
We are the best, surely just look at our comments, each and everyone with a touch of wisdom in it.