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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkish Foreign Minister: Possible Syria operations to be announced after MGK meeting |
| 2015-06-29 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] In response to claims that ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... would be conducting a cross-border military operation in Syria, the Turkish foreign minister said any necessary announcements about the issue would be made after the National Security Council (MGK) meeting, which will be held June 29. "We have a MGK meeting tomorrow; we will make the necessary announcements afterwards," state-run Anadolu Agency reported Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu as saying on June 28 in the Black Sea province of Ordu's Ünye district, neither accepting nor denying any of the claims. Hurriyet Daily News reported June 27 that Turkey's government wanted more active military action to support the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) against the Syrian regime and both Kurdish and jihadist forces in Syrian territory, but the military was reluctant to do so, playing for time as the country heads for a new coalition government. According to HDN sources, who asked not to be named, the "active support" that Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's government seeks from the military ranges from long-range artillery fire (not only in retaliatory terms) against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) positions in Syrian territory to air operations, and includes entering Syria with land forces to secure a strip along the Turkish border. Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Özel has delayed the government directive with justifications of international law and politics, in addition to uncertainty of reactions from the Bashir al-Assad regime in Syria, as well as from its supporters, Russia and Iran, and the United States. The government has been conducting dialogue to convince the army to act. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Up to 18,000 Turkish soldiers repor may be deployed. * OTOH FREEREPUBLIC > [Daily Beast] TURKEY PLANS TO INVADE SYRIA, BUT TO STOP THE KURDS, NOT ISIS. The only thing Turkey = Erdogan fears more that the rise of a full-fledged, sovereign unified Kurdish State is THE RISE OF TWO [or more] KURDISH STATES??? AND * TOPIX > [Business Insider] JORDAN MULLS SIGNIFICANT MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SOUTHERN SYRIA. As hedge in favor of Jordan-specific NatSec in case Baby Assad's Boyz = SAA aren't able to hold the region due to overwhelming Militant pressure. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-06-29 21:29 |