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The Grand Turk
Turkish government seeks mandate for troops in Syria and Iraq
2017-09-23
[Hurriyet Daily News] With days left to controversial independence referendum of Iraqi Kurds, the Ottoman Turkish government will seek a mandate from the Parliament to send troops to Iraq and Syria after consecutive security meetings where measures to be taken against the Arbil administration have been decided.

The Ottoman Turkish Parliament is set to hold an extraordinary session on Sept 23 to vote on a mandate that permits the government to deploy troops to its southern neighboring countries, Iraq and Syria, just two days before the scheduled referendum to be held by the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).

According to the text of the motion already submitted to the Parliament, the government seeks the mandate on the grounds that efforts to break the territorial integrity of Iraq and Syria will endanger The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
’s national security, in direct reference to KRG’s referendum. It does also recall ongoing fight 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and its Syrian offshoot, the People’s Protection Units (YPG).

Before the parliamentary vote, Turkey convened the National Security Council (MGK) before the Cabinet meeting on Sept 22 immediately after the return of President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
 from the United States. Along with Erdogan, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar and senior military and civilian officials joined the MGK meeting. Later in the day, President Erdogan chaired the cabinet meeting to register advisory decisions taken at the MGK meet.

As efforts to convince KRG President Massaoud Barzani to call off the referendum failed, Turkey harshened its opposition in recent days and launched a military drill along the Iraqi border. Turkey, Iran and Iraq did also issue a joint declaration and announced their agreement to take counter-measures in coordination against the Arbil’s independence bid.
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