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The Grand Turk
Turkey Paying High Price For Covert ISIS Support
2014-10-15
Turkey has worked to improve relations with the Kurds in Iraq but now risk blowing any progress that has been made with their refusal to intervene in Kobani.

The situation has escalated to [such] an extent that [the] Turks [have] felt compelled to take up air strikes again against the PKK, for the first time since peace talks began, two years ago. Kurds are rioting in Diyarbakir, Mardin, Siirt, Mus, Van and Batman provinces.

If ISIS finally takes Kobani and [massacre] the Kurds, the situation in Turkey could explode.
Turkey wants to take down pencil-neck but due to their own actions (e.g. cutting military ties to Israel) have a limited ability to strike Assad.
Posted by:Whereter Ebbenter4423

#5  Turkey just bombed the Kurds. Seems they are now out of the closet.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2014-10-15 17:21  

#4  Mark Steyn had an interesting article on birthrates. Basically the Turks are done in a decade or so and the Kurds will take over.

That leaves Turkey a few options. 1. Betray the Kurds and hope ISIS does a bit of the old Armenian on them. 2. Establish a Kurdistan outside of Turkish territory and hope the Turkish Kurds move and they get along. 3. Suck it up and be nice to the future overlords.

Clearly Turkish pride has trouble with 2 options so they are rolling the dice on option 1.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2014-10-15 14:41  

#3  Erdogan has not yet paid any much of a price for the past 8 years of being an egomaniac islamist.

He has been rewarded with election victories and someone is subsidizing Turkey's import loans to inflate the economy. The entire Obama admin has essentially been praising him for insignificant actions and overlooking major provocations.
Posted by: lord garth   2014-10-15 09:37  

#2  They have no business being a NATO member. They may never have had any business being a NATO member.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-10-15 03:06  

#1  Not high enough a price. Im looking for ;oss of Cyprus, a civil war, partition, and a Free Kurdistan as the ultimate price paid by Erdogan and his bunch that seems to be an Islamist version of Hugo Chavez.
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-10-15 03:00  

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