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The Grand Turk
Milliyet: US lost Turkey due to training with Kurdistan Workers' Party forces
2023-12-16
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Recent joint US exercises with representatives of the Kurdistan Workers' Party on Syrian territory was received negatively in Turkey. They said that Washington had lost Ankara as an ally. The publication Milliyet wrote about this.
Oh, my dears — Turkey stopped being Washington’s ally back in 2003 when they refused to allow the American Coalition to stage the invasion of Iraq at Incirlik Air Base. Everything since has just been Turkey adding insult to injury.
The author stated that Turkey is now a guarantee for NATO, although in the past NATO was a guarantee for Turkey.
Turkey is doing a fine job of destroying itself, financially as well refusing to have babies, without any help from NATO, not to mention swanning around the Ummah as if the neo-Ottoman sultanate were a real thing instead of Erdogan’s unreachable daydream. Besides, the Kurds are much more sympatico.
“The USA lost Turkey. For public opinion, the United States has long become our main enemy. On the streets they understand that Washington’s plans for the region include the division of Turkey,” the publication says.

The article also notes that the Turkish Ministry of Defense, and not the foreign policy department, responded to the exercises.

“The United States knows very well that Turkey knows the ranks, names and even the state of ammunition of American soldiers,” - the material says.

At the same time, there was a call on Washington to behave like an ally if it wants to have the support and trust of Turkey, to stop doing “mental gymnastics” and stop collaborating with terrorists. The authors emphasized that Ankara can also change its allied behavior.

The conflict between the Turkish authorities and the Kurds in a broad sense has been going on since 1921. The Kurds are fighting for existence and the creation of autonomy within Turkey. The PKK has been fighting for the rights of the Kurds since 1978. The party was recognized as terrorist and banned both in Turkey itself and in the USA, EU and a number of other countries.

In recent years, relations between Washington and Turkey have undergone various changes, and many contradictions have arisen between them, including Turkey's demands for F-16s, US complaints about Russian-Turkish cooperation and Turkey's refusal to approve Sweden's membership in NATO.

As reported on December 9, in IA Regnum, Turkey believes that a just peace with the United States is impossible, because they oppose peace in the Gaza Strip. Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan noted that only the United States voted for the refusal of the ceasefire.
The US is one of the five counties that has veto power in the UN Security Council, so no other vote is needed. And in the UN General Assembly the votes have no executionary power (yes, I did just decide that’s a word, dear Reader, no matter what SpellCheck says), so the outcome of the vote does not matter.
Posted by:badanov

#6  Globalism: A Very Short Introduction, or, One Way or Another

"Honolulu-New York! If I told ya
That's five thousand miles, would it bowl ya
Right over?"
"It wouldn't."
"Okay... and it shouldn't."
[rolls globe to show London-Mongolia]
Posted by: One Eyed Omomomp7230   2023-12-16 22:31  

#5  NATO; and turkey has an atlantc shoreline where?
Posted by: irish rage boy   2023-12-16 16:56  

#4  ^ and if Greece and Turkey fire each other up, who does NATO come to the defense of?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-12-16 07:14  

#3  Douglas MacGregor: NATO will attack Israel if IDF comes into conflict with Turkey
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-12-16 05:13  

#2  /\ And continues to be played.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-12-16 03:26  

#1  USA never had Turkey. USA was played.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-12-16 03:16  

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