TURKISH PRESIDENT DECLARES LAWRENCE OF ARABIA A BIGGER ENEMY THAN ISIS
The Erdoğan speech was suffused with an angry anti-Western narrative—
he also tilted at Western journalists, accusing them of being spies—and will no doubt thrill some of Erdoğan’s supporters.
In southern Turkey, some local officials in his Justice and Development Party (AKP) express sympathy for ISIS.
Rekryteringen via Turkiet och oljesmugglingen:
Turkey is considered crucial if President Barack Obama’s war aim to “degrade and defeat” ISIS is to be accomplished. The country has been the main logistical base for the Islamic militants, the main transit country for foreign fighters to enter neighboring Syria and a key source of it’s revenue from the smuggling of oil tapped in captured oil fields.
Turkiet nekar till att dom har gått med på att låta koalitionen att använda Turkiets baser:
At the weekend U.S. officials announced a breakthrough in their efforts to persuade Turkey to become a frontline ally, saying the Turkish government had agreed that a NATO airbase at Incirlik could be used by the anti-ISIS coalition. But the Turkish government was ominously silent Monday on that score and
just hours after Erdoğan’s speech Turkish officials denied they had agreed U.S. warplanes could use Incirlik air base for attacks on Islamic militants.
Erdoğan’s comments Monday give a glimpse into the Turkish leadership’s reasons for denying the use of Incirlik.
Hur Turkisk polis ljuger och försöker lura tyskar att dom är spioner med slag:
German freelance photographer Christian Grodotzki. “As they arrested us they pushed us around and punched two of us and some German tourists were there and they kicked one of them in the stomach. It was a pretty rough arrest. They tried really hard to get us to confirm we were spies or trick us into signing false confessions.”
This isn’t a speech one expects from an ally, especially when there are delicate negotiations going on,” says an Istanbul-based European diplomat.
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