Turkish officials made a big deal of offering the US the use of Incirlik Air Base, not far from the Syrian border, for airstrikes against ISIS. Growing disagreements over how that base will be used, however, threaten to change things significantly.
The US was keen to get the base, and termed it a “game-changer,” but almost all of their airstrikes against ISIS in that part of Syria are being done for the benefit of the Kurdish YPG. This is a huge problem for Turkey, which didn’t like the US helping the YPG in the first place, and certainly doesn’t want them to get even more help.
If and when the creation of the “safe zone” in Syria happens, the air base will probably be used primarily to protect that. In the meantime, the base is likely to be of limited use, with the US using it mostly for limited strikes to areas not being directly contested.
Whether it remains that way is unclear though, with the US liable to use the base in “emergency” situations to back the YPG, and that will be a touchy subject for Turkey, which has been talking up fighting the Kurds in recent days.
The bulls..t never ceases, and watching Turkey US today is so reminicent of IRAq undr Sanctions before last Allied invasion and worlds financials occupation.
For all the 12.years of sanctionsn US.got to share abTurkish Airbase for launvhing of NO fly and attacks upon herds og sheep andbwedding parties.
Turkey got in return billions in both trade deals and military hardware, and permission to kill Kurdish PpK, the same damn Kurds they love to kill today.
Also in exchange they got USnintel for their military incursions into border areas by armored units.
US sky buzzards used to get pissed because they had to delay old piloylts trigger times on days when Turks wanted the same.
This went on all the sanction years and US spec ops used the basebas launchpad for spec ops wjo workrdbwith todaysbPeshmerga andneffectively the new US territory of Kurdistan.
So effective eere Turks and USbin Aiding Peshmerga that by time US invaded Kurds controlled an autonomous region almost devoid ofvany IRAQ military forvces.
US got PO’d when TurksbRegused permission for use of basesband others asba major launch pad against an already preped to surrender and beaten to walking deat Iraq army.
Killers are killers andbthenTurks tried to genocide Armenians and failed but yhey damn near did it to Kurds in Turkey, hell it has only recently become legal for a Kurd to speak Or write in Kurdish and their elected is about like an Arab elected to Israei Kinnesit.
Some things never change and the Turks historical love of bloodletting and Its old Ottomsn ass kissing bureaucracy exist even today.
They will kill joping it also gets them into Ruro.
In last four years Syrian people been killed by those whom support all kind of barbaric system out there to support, four million Syrians are forced to flee their homes because USG and EU governing system which governed by neo liberals and neo fascism, including kings and queens and billionaires planed for their stealing style of peoples natural resources in Syria. Sweden, although known to be a radical political syste is including itself with these neo gangs, now is time for Kurdish people to suffer the same when the Erdogan regime taking back the time into 1960-70-80s when Kurdish people were killed by Turkish regimes, now is the Kurdish people time to start their forced journey into the very same Europe which supported their cause before when Anders Fog Rasmussen, the head of neo fascism in Danmark closed the Kurdish TV station there, hence, Europe no longer can feed its own people which the new Kurdish storm into Europe, Europe that have nothing to offer any longer to immigrants, Europe which is no longer considered as a progressive, Europe that has become more of US entity's of brothers in arms creating wars from Ukraine to Syria, to Libya to Iraq and now, Europe NATO member, the Erdogan Turkish regime creating the very same situation for yet another national in Middle East because his been asked to, his been ordered by yet another Danish NATO boss to do whatever it takes to satisfy NATO and Turkish far right political parties for Erdogan to become the caliphate of Middle East.