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The Grand Turk
Turkey part of just three coalition airstrikes against ISIL since August
2015-10-17
[Hurriyet Daily News] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 has joined just three coordinated U.S.-led coalition Arclight airstrikes 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets in Syria since August.

Turkish war have jets struck ISIL positions in Syria in two of the three aerial campaigns so far, with the last of the air strikes coming late on Oct. 14, according to Turkish sources in Ankara.

In the last Arclight airstrikes, the F-16 jets hit ISIL compounds alongside coalition aircraft that took off from the Incirlik Airbase in southern Turkey late on Oct. 14.

U.S. predators later struck a number of ISIL vehicles that were trying to escape, sources said, clarifying a White House statement.

"We have seen in the last 24 hours or so that Turkey has stepped up its activity in Syria ... Reports overnight [state] that the Turks for the first time successfully struck a mobile ISIL target inside Syria," White House front man Josh Earnest had said during a daily press briefing on Oct. 15

Turkey conducted its first joint air strikes as part of the U.S.-led coalition against ISIL on Aug. 28.

In the same month, after months of hesitation, Turkey agreed to be part of the military campaign against ISIL, as well as granting expanded access to the U.S.-led coalition forces to Incirlik Air Base, a pivotal tactical spot from which to launch fighter jets. The US and Turkey finalized the agreement on Aug. 24.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Iff ANKARA = TURKEY expects to rival SHIA IRAN, ETAL. in potential "US-style", "US-par" OWG Co-Superhood, IT HAS TO DO MUCHO BETTER THAN THAT, TO INCLUDE RENOVATING OR OVERHAULING ITS MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL ECNOMY IN SUPPORT OF ITS AGENDA OR AMBITIONS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-10-17 00:56  

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