Turkey: Our NATO Ally

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hog88 said:
12-18 months (if that) Turkey will be another radical islamist dictatorship.
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Yep. I can't believe the military doesn't have more balls than it does right now. He is arresting hundreds if not thousands of innocent people, including military officials not apart of the coup, and they are just rolling with it. Last week we watched the modern day Reichstag fire unfold in real-time. Sadly it looks like Kemalism and the Turkish Deep State are dead, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is weeping.
 
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Obsessed said:
Can someone explain to me why they shut the power off to our base over there?

That base hoses roughly 2,000 troops and 50 small nukes.


However, there are reports today that Turkish authorities have shut off access and power to an air base used by US jets bombing Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria as tensions escalate.

The US embassy released a statement saying: "Be advised that local authorities are denying movements on to and off of Incirlik Air Base. The power there has also been cut. Please avoid the air base until normal operations have been
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It is rumored that some of the "coup plotters" were based out of Incirlik.
 
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Burhead said:
Yep. I can't believe the military doesn't have more balls than it does right now. He is arresting hundreds if not thousands of innocent people, including military officials not apart of the coup, and they are just rolling with it. Last week we watched the modern day Reichstag fire unfold in real-time. Sadly it looks like Kemalism and the Turkish Deep State are dead, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is weeping.
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Until the military decides enough is enough.
 
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Turkey's Erdogan Goes Full-Dictator: Designates Journalists And Teachers As "Terrorists"; Arrests Lawyers | Zero Hedge

“It is not only the person who pulls the trigger, but those who made that possible who should be defined as terrorists, regardless of their title,” Turkish President Tayyip Recep Erdogan said on Monday, in an attempt to convince parliament to include journalists, politicians, academics, and activists under the country’s anti-extremism laws.
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But frankly, we’re not even sure why he bothers parliament with these things. Erdogan is going to do whatever Erdogan wants to do. We're talking about a man who arrested two of the country's preeminent journalists and had the nerve to charge them with "deliberately aiding a terrorist organization" when what they were in fact doing was exposing Erdogan for... wait for it... deliberately aiding a terrorist organization.
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And what does obama do about them cutting power to our airfield (base)

Not like we dont have enough airpower in the sandbox to make his whole country a no fly zone and shoot down anything that wiggles...they may have f16s and the like thatvwe sold em but they have no stealth capability and their pilots dont stack up...
 
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hog88 said:
Question becomes, what does NATO and the EU do? Expel them?
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I don't think they are a member of the EU. 97% of its landmass is in Asia and not sure they want a "Muslim democracy" in it. I would hope this would help confirm that.

They do have the second largest military in NATO though. Hard to grasp how it got pimp slapped so easily and quickly..
 
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Pacer92 said:
I don't think they are a member of the EU. 97% of its landmass is in Asia and not sure they want a "Muslim democracy" in it. I would hope this would help confirm that.

They do have the second largest military in NATO though. Hard to grasp how it got pimp slapped so easily and quickly..
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They are not a full member of the EU they are a candidate, supposedly in negotiations to join.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
And what does obama do about them cutting power to our airfield (base)

Not like we dont have enough airpower in the sandbox to make his whole country a no fly zone and shoot down anything that wiggles...they may have f16s and the like thatvwe sold em but they have no stealth capability and their pilots dont stack up...
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If I were in charge, any planes that I sold would have a remote destruct feature that you could activate if the country went rogue.
 
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hog88 said:
Question becomes, what does NATO and the EU do? Expel them?
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2nd biggest military in NATO and Erdogan worked a deal with the rest of Europe to control the flow of refugees.

Massive crossroads for energy.

NATO and the EU ain't gonna do shiz. They made the bed.
 
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volinbham said:
2nd biggest military in NATO and Erdogan worked a deal with the rest of Europe to control the flow of refugees.

Massive crossroads for energy.

NATO and the EU ain't gonna do shiz. They made the bed.
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60 years of drug deals for that ****ing airbase definitely makes things pretty limited as far as options go.

I wish we could get our nukes out and let Russia knock the Ottomans down a few pegs as they have throughout history
 
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Toujours Pret said:
60 years of drug deals for that ****ing airbase definitely makes things pretty limited as far as options go.

I wish we could get our nukes out and let Russia knock the Ottomans down a few pegs as they have throughout history
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There's been rumors what the Turks believe are in those vaults aren't really there. Allegedly got pulled years ago with replicas put in their place.
 
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