Turkey has confirmed that it has halted all training operations in northern Iraq for the Kurdish Peshmerga forces. They added that the move was a response to the Kurdish vote to secede from Iraq.
Turkey has been training the Peshmerga throughout the ISIS war. The training has at times been a sore spot for the Iraqi government, as they didn’t give the Turkish military permission to deploy trainers into the area.
Now, with Turkey threatening to join a war with Iraq and Iran against the Kurds, it’s unsurprising that they don’t intend to keep training those Kurds they might soon be fighting. The move is also another chance for a high-profile “protest” of the vote.
Indeed, Turkish officials declared the backers of Kurdish independence of having “thrown themselves into the fire” with their vote. Turkish spokesman Bekir Bozdag added that more steps would follow against the Kurds, coordinated with the Iraqi central government.
Turkey should be expelled from NATO, for the duplicitous, deceitful, non-ally they are.
The Turkish MIT has provided material and logistical support to, and encouragement for Turkish citizens to join and fight with, Daesh (ISIS), our enemies.
Supporting the sworn enemy of an ally is not the act of an friend but, rather, the act of an enemy.
NATO Patriot batteries should be immediately withdrawn from Turkey to Europe, and forward deployed to the Baltic States, and Poland, where they might do some good, helping deter further Russian aggression in Eastern Europe.
We should then provide military and political support to the Kurds, throughout the region, including the PKK, who should be reclassified as a non-terrorist organization.
We should assist the Kurdish people in establishing their much deserved, and long overdue nationhood, to be carved from portions of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
The Kurds will prove an honest, loyal, reliable, and grateful ally, second only to the Israelis in the region.
No one need the assistance of turkish soldiers. Thats why a lot of Kurds dont like the ruling Barzani Family.
Crush the Kurds. They are running-poodles of USrael.