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2010-06-01 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Turkey warns use of Naval escorts for next flotilla
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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-06-01 03:28|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Don't permit Turkey to bomb Kurdish areas anymore!

Non!
Posted by 3dc 2010-06-01 08:16||   2010-06-01 08:16|| Front Page Top

#2 And will Turkey also violate Israel's territorial waters?

That would justify the 'escort' being sent to the bottom of the deep blue sea.
Posted by CrazyFool 2010-06-01 08:26||   2010-06-01 08:26|| Front Page Top

#3 
Sending your navy to break another nation's blockade is an act of war.
Posted by Parabellum 2010-06-01 09:57|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/  2010-06-01 09:57|| Front Page Top

#4 @ #1 - my sentiments exactly!
The Israelis should start arming the Kurds to the teeth.
Then the Turks might just understand the situation a little bit better.
Also.. I look for the Turkish military become interested in the direction their country is going in.
Many Turks are deeply concerned about the radical shift their country is going in.
Posted by Mike Hunt 2010-06-01 11:37||   2010-06-01 11:37|| Front Page Top

#5 If Israel is smart, they will just board the cargo ships and let the Turkish navy just sit there. If Turkey opens up, it is an act of war. Then sink the fuckers.
Posted by DarthVader 2010-06-01 11:51||   2010-06-01 11:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't these Turkeys have some other (unfinished) work on Cyprus?
Posted by BrerRabbit 2010-06-01 11:55||   2010-06-01 11:55|| Front Page Top

#7 So if they send the ship Rachel Corrie, instead of flotilla iz cool if I start calling it tortilla?
Posted by swksvolFF 2010-06-01 12:54||   2010-06-01 12:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Mike Hunt is on the right track...Turkey is swaying away from NATO and the West and looking for an excuse to snuggle up against Iran. One small step for man and one giant step for medieval kind.
Posted by Hammerhead 2010-06-01 13:10||   2010-06-01 13:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Just give the Kurds some rocket and encourage them to fire them off toward Turkish cities and towns.

I'm sure the Turkish government and U.N. wouldn't mind at all. In fact the U.N. should help out.
Posted by CrazyFool 2010-06-01 13:28||   2010-06-01 13:28|| Front Page Top

#10 These are two core allies of the US, preparing to go to war with each other.

WTF is our CINC on this?

Is anybody in Barry's government even paying attention?
Posted by lex 2010-06-01 14:39||   2010-06-01 14:39|| Front Page Top

#11 I don't think they realise that sending the Rachael Corrie will ensure it won't be coming back.
The Israelis will impound the ship, and probably either scrap or sell it (Depending on condition, Civilians are lousy Maintainers of machinery)
Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-06-01 14:56||   2010-06-01 14:56|| Front Page Top

#12  a development with unpredictable consequences.

Actually, not so "unpredictable".....

June 1, 2010: Israel is stationing three of its five Dolphin class submarines in the Red Sea, and will keep one of them operating off the Iranian coast at all times. These subs will be armed with cruise missiles (equipped with nuclear warheads).

That's three of five. Do you feel lucky.... Turkey?
Posted by Besoeker 2010-06-01 15:01||   2010-06-01 15:01|| Front Page Top

#13 Possibly Israel will target the engines of future 'civilian' Gaza based boats rather than board them.

Then the Turkish ships won't be attacked.

The Turkish ships could then do tow duty but that would be somewhat demeaning for them.
Posted by lord garth 2010-06-01 15:19||   2010-06-01 15:19|| Front Page Top

#14 But I thought the world was going to love us once the smartest administration in the world took office. Everything was supposed to be peaceful and peaches and cream. Why did everything turn to $hit? Well there is always the blame game to fall back on.
Posted by JohnQC 2010-06-01 17:36||   2010-06-01 17:36|| Front Page Top

#15 "These are two core allies of the US, preparing to go to war with each other."

Uh, lex, Turkey showed us what kind of an "ally" they are at the start of Gulf War II. With friend like that, who needs friends?

As for Israel, they've listened to our CinC and pretty much figured out HE isn't an ally of theirs, no matter what the normal people of our country think. >:-(
Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-06-01 18:26||   2010-06-01 18:26|| Front Page Top

#16 Barbara, Turkey, a NATO ally, considers itself to have been attacked. IIUC, Article V of the treaty obligates us to come to Turkey's aid in such an instance.

Either NATO's Article V is dead letter, or we will be violating a contractual treaty obligation. Wonder how Barry's going to try to dodge this one.
Posted by lex 2010-06-01 18:30||   2010-06-01 18:30|| Front Page Top

#17 Lex - we have a contractual alliance with Israel too.
Posted by 3dc 2010-06-01 18:57||   2010-06-01 18:57|| Front Page Top

#18 Lex, the Dems are already anti-Semitic er, anti-Zionist enough as it is--don't give them any ideas.
Posted by Mike 2010-06-01 18:59||   2010-06-01 18:59|| Front Page Top

#19 lex, zero sides with the muslims - he said it himself. He'll use the NATO agreement as an excuse to provide no support to Israel in a conflict with Turkey.
Posted by Hellfish 2010-06-01 19:03||   2010-06-01 19:03|| Front Page Top

#20 "Turkey, a NATO ally, considers itself to have been attacked."

Some of their dumber terrorists citizens attacked the Israelis. Neither Turkey itself, nor its military, was attacked.

I consider the U.S. attacked each time an American is murdered by terrorists overseas, but I don't see Turkey going to war with the countries those clowns come from, or even giving a rat's ass. Nor did they give us the help they were supposed to (and originally said they would) in Gulf War II.

I realize we're supposed to follow the rules, while nobody else has to, but I'm sick of it. Turkey can go to hell. (And their military needs to re-read their constitution - again.)
Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-06-01 19:06||   2010-06-01 19:06|| Front Page Top

#21 lex, zero sides with the muslims - he said it himself. He'll use the NATO agreement as an excuse to provide no support to Israel in a conflict with Turkey.

Pretty hard to avoid that conclusion, isn't it? How utterly bizarre.
Posted by lex 2010-06-01 20:57||   2010-06-01 20:57|| Front Page Top

#22 The Turkish Navy... I do not think the Israelis will be quaking in their boots.
Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Navy#2000s
Posted by linker 2010-06-01 20:58||   2010-06-01 20:58|| Front Page Top

#23 Erdogan could see himself escorted right out of office by his own military if he keeps this up. I don't think they want to get into a shooting war with Israel. Erdogan has been pulling his country farther and farther into the islamist sphere and away from the secular tradition that the military supports, or at least has in the past. This is political bluster and nothing more.
Posted by remoteman 2010-06-01 23:47||   2010-06-01 23:47|| Front Page Top

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