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2021-07-02 The Grand Turk
US places Turkey on list of nations using child soldiers
[Rudaw] For the first time, a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
ally has been included on a list of countries using child soldiers by the United States, according to a newly released report on Thursday.

In its 2021 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, the US State Department noted that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
offered assistance in Syria to the Sultan Murad division, a Syrian militia group backed by Ankara, which Washington has accused of using child soldiers.
...more precisely, one of the largest of Turkey’s Syrian Turkmen paramilitary groups.
Every country in this report is placed on one of four tiers, as mandated by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). This placement is based not on the extent of a country's problem, but on the extent of government efforts to eliminate human trafficking.

Unless a presidential waiver is granted, states placed on this list are restricted from receiving certain types of security assistance and commercial licensing of military equipment.

Despite the Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
’s offer to get involved in Afghanistan, it is unclear if placing Turkey on this list would impact its negotiations to run Kabul's airport once the US withdraws.

Relations between Washington and Ankara have been thorny in recent years, caused in part by America’s recognition of the Armenian genocide on April 24, US support for Syrian Kurds, and Turkey’s purchase of Russia’s S-400 defense system.

Erdogan said he had a "fruitful and sincere" meeting with US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
on the sidelines of the NATO leaders summit in Brussels in June.

"We believe there is no problem that cannot be resolved in Turkey-US relations," he said in a presser after his first face-to-face meeting with Biden since his election.

Ottoman Turkish forces have carried out three military operations in Syria against Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Kurdish-held areas of Syria, and have deployed armed Syrian fighters alongside their own personnel.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-07-02 00:47|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top
 File under: Ottoman Proxies 

#1 17 year olds are still considered by many legal domains to be 'children'. Might want to update your own laws while you are at it.

10 USC Ch. 12: THE MILITIA
From Title 10—ARMED FORCES Subtitle A—General Military Law PART I—ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS

§246. Militia: composition and classes

(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.

(b) The classes of the militia are—

(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and

(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-07-02 07:05||   2021-07-02 07:05|| Front Page Top

#2 I thought, according to Woke, 25 year olds are children.

Unless the parent wants a eunuch, where a 6 year old is an adult.

18 year olds are not mature enough to buy a pack of smokes, but 13 is plenty mature to vote.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-07-02 12:36||   2021-07-02 12:36|| Front Page Top

#3 They're muzz. Soldiers in Mahound's jihad army from birth.
Posted by M. Murcek  2021-07-02 12:49||   2021-07-02 12:49|| Front Page Top

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