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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkish parliament OKs controversial Libya military deal |
| 2019-12-22 |
[AlAhram]  ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...'s parliament approved a security and military deal with Libya's U.N.-supported government Saturday on the heels of a controversial maritime agreement earlier this month that has drawn international ire. The deal allows Turkey to provide military training and equipment at the request of the Libyan government that controls the capital, Tripoli |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #10 There is no God but Gulen And Rantburg is his prophet |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-22 21:29 |
| #9 yep |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-12-22 18:16 |
| #8 time for a coup! Spoken like a true Gulenist! /disclaimer: At this point, I think we're all Gulenists on this bus |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-12-22 18:03 |
| #7 time for a coup! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-12-22 17:54 |
| #6 Erdogan has military commitments in Syria, east Africa, Qatar and now Libya. and to work these he has a military that has been hurt badly by his anti Gulan purge and on top of that he has a shaky economy and, although not much money, he has been indirectly funding some American politicians, notably Ilhan Omar |
| Posted by: lord garth 2019-12-22 16:55 |
| #5 The differential birthrate problem means the Turks have a limited window — a generation or less, according to President Erdogan himself — within which to accomplish their neo-Ottoman sultanate. After that the Kurds will inherit it by providing the babies the Turks have not had. Very much what the Palestinians have planned, except their baby numbers are imaginary and their total population claims ignore consistently high levels of emigration since 1948. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-12-22 13:52 |
| #4 Tayip. Yip-yip. Dip-sh*t. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2019-12-22 12:18 |
| #3 Wagner. Mahler. Mauler. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-22 07:06 |
| #2 Hifter. Hatler. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-12-22 07:03 |
| #1 So a chunk of Syria, Libya and, oh yeah, the entire Aegean... I would have thought NATO had a rule about members engaged in wars of aggression and, oh yeah, what's Turkish for Lebensraum? |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2019-12-22 06:40 |