War On Terror: Besides Israel, no nation has helped the U.S. fight Islamist terror more than the world's largest people without a country, the Kurds. America should stop taking them for granted.
Despite its NATO membership, and its misleading image as supposedly the most Western of Muslim nations, Turkey is quite anti-American, more so than many Mideast Islamic states.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been little help against the Islamic State. As mayor of Istanbul in 1997, celebrating the city's Ottoman conquest, he is on record as saying: "The image of the Jews is no different from that of the Nazis."
Turkey openly supports the al-Qaida-allied Syrian groups Jabhat al Nusra and Ahrar ash Sham. And Erdogan was just in Beijing, forging links with our global adversary China, which over many years helped Iran build its nuclear program.
Today, Erdogan's armed forces play a game of simultaneously combating Islamic State and Kurdish separatists. The unexpected deal allowing the U.S. to use the strategically well-located Incirlik Air Base — from where it can utilize 30 fighter jets and 300 troops against Islamic State locations in northern Syria — must be viewed in that context of Turkey's dubious long-term objectives.Read the rest of the story HERE.
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