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| The Grand Turk | ||||
| Turkey says coalition to launch | ||||
| 2015-08-06 | ||||
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] U.S. aircraft and drones are arriving in Turkish air bases and a comprehensive battle against 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.... bully boyz will be launched soon, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday. ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... formally approved the use of its air bases by U.S. and coalition aircraft late last month, a major change in policy after years of reluctance in taking a front-line role against the Islamist fighters in northern Syria. "As part of our agreement with the U.S. we have made progress regarding the opening up of our bases, particularly Incirlik," Cavusoglu told state broadcaster TRT, referring to a major air base near the southern city of Adana. "We're seeing that manned and unmanned American planes are arriving and soon we will launch a comprehensive battle against Islamic State all together," he said during a trip to Malaysia. Turkey and the United States have been working on plans to provide air cover for a group of U.S.-trained Syrian rebels and jointly sweep Islamic State fighters from a strip of northern Syria stretching about 80 km (50 miles) along the Turkish border. Diplomats familiar with the plans say cutting off Islamic State's access to the border, over which imported muscle and supplies have flowed, could be a game-changer in the fight against the holy warriors. But there are major challenges. Washington said on Tuesday it had indications some of the rebels trained by its military were captured by fighters from al Qaeda's Syria wing, Nusra Front, underscoring the vulnerability of a group thought to number less than 60 who only deployed to the battlefield in recent weeks. Islamic State has seized large parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq in its drive to create an Islamic caliphate.
Reports said that Gen. Hulusi Akar had been promoted to preside over NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... 's second-largest army, replacing Gen. Necdet Ozel.
Turkey’s borders have been the vital lifelines for the vast territories that ISIS controls in Syria and Iraq. A genuine crackdown on ISIS at the border is expected to inflict a major blow on the group.
His appointment was made during a three-day annual meeting of the Supreme Military Council headed by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. Akar, who has extensive NATO experience, is seen as more hawkish than Ozel, whose leadership coincided with a period of relative peace in the The overhaul in the army command also comes as Turkey continues to redefine the role of the military, whose political influence has waned since the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... took power in 2002. The army, which considers itself the guardian of secular rule, has staged three coups since 1960 and forced out an Islamic government in 1997. But Erdogan's Islamic-rooted AKP has clipped its wings through a series of trials, which have been criticized by rights groups.
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