What side is Turkey on? It is hard to tell. Is Turkey having a Ted Cruz moment? Not sure who it is?
What is it with this country, already? This could get ugly really quickly. Can the USA take over the leadership of Turkey as an ally? Why not? We did it in Iraq.
What is it with this country, already? This could get ugly really quickly. Can the USA take over the leadership of Turkey as an ally? Why not? We did it in Iraq.
Moscow (AFP) - Russia's defence ministry (click here) on Wednesday accused Turkey of breaching the Open Skies treaty by refusing to allow a reconnaissance plane to overfly its territory near Syria, the latest salvo in an ongoing row as relations between the two countries hits a post-Cold War low.
"This creates a dangerous precedent over a lack of control of the military activity of a member state of the Open Skies treaty," the ministry said.
The Russian plane's itinerary for February 1-5 was transmitted to the Turkish army in advance but authorisation was refused with Ankara authorities claiming to have never received the request, the defence ministry added in a statement.
The 2002 Open Skies treaty, signed by over 30 nations including Russia, Turkey, the EU and the US, establishes a programme of unarmed aerial surveillance flights giving all participants the ability to gather information about military forces and activities of concern to them....
Give Erdogan a cell phone!
This might explain it. The Kurds are demanding recognition of an agreement in the death of their people. Erdogan is avoiding responsibility.
February 3, 2016
Give Erdogan a cell phone!
This might explain it. The Kurds are demanding recognition of an agreement in the death of their people. Erdogan is avoiding responsibility.
February 3, 2016
A number of Kurdish politicians (click here) have claimed that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was aware of an agreement reached between the government and the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in February 2015 at the Dolmabahçe Palace to bring peace to the country and have accused him of claiming he did not know about the deal so as not to be held responsible for the bloodshed in the country's Southeast.
The discussion over whether the agreement on how to solve the country's decades-old Kurdish problem took place with Erdoğan's complete knowledge and approval has heated up again after former Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç recently said that Erdoğan was aware of the steps taken before and during the meeting at Dolmabahçe and the content of the 10-item document produced after.
HDP Diyarbakır deputy İdris Baluken, who was in the HDP delegation that took part in the meeting at Dolmabahçe, told Today's Zaman on Wednesday that Erdoğan was aware of the content of the talks and that it was he who then derailed the peace process. "Erdoğan is the one who expressed his objection to the establishment of a monitoring committee [to observe the course of events of the Kurdish talks in 2015] and denied the existence of a Kurdish issue. He is responsible for the current conflict-driven environment,” Baluken said. Over 200 civilians have been killed in recent months in clashes between the Turkish security forces and the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)....
