...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 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
...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 GuyBiden
...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.