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[repulsewarrior]

One day soon the West will wake up and realize that you can not fit a square peg in a round hole.

The entire Turkish culture is alien to the West, gone are the days of strategic importance.

This is a nation that still tolerates honour killings, forced marraiges and brutal police actions.

What does the West possibly have in common with this nation, I wonder...

I disagree. There are many people in Turkey whose lifestyles and outlooks are entirely Western. Turkey has made significant moves in the direction of Westernisation, its legal system being a prime example. The long-term goal of the current AKP regime is to gradually reverse these achievements and take the country back into the Middle Ages. I hope to see a secularist government elected some time in Turkey that will put the country back on the path that it adopted when the Republic was first created.

...i am just as hopeful, and in fact, inspired by the brilliance of the People of Turkey who despite the oppressive acts of Erdogan's government, find the most extraordinary ways to express their resistance. And in the end, Turkey will be stronger for it, if he fails at Constitutional Reform, new thinking will come of it.

[Cap]

I agree with Milti, Anatolia is a lost cause.
The few civilized Anatolians are too few and far between to make a difference.

Kurdish 'T**key' needs to be partitioned and ceded to Kurdistan.
Armenian 'Tu**key' to Armenia.

[kurupetos]

I agree with Milti, Anatolia is a lost cause.
The few civilized Anatolians are too few and far between to make a difference.

Kurdish 'T**key' needs to be partitioned and ceded to Kurdistan.
Armenian 'Tu**key' to Armenia.

Finally... you've realised the obvious, Cap.

[Tim Drayton]

The autonomous Kurdish administration in north Iraq has said that it is initially planning to send 200 well equipped peshmerga fighters to Kobane.

In a recent statement, Turkish president Erdoğan has said that, in his recent phone call with Obama, he suggested sending the peshmerga to Kobane as an acceptable solution to him as opposed to arming the PDY/PKK. I think the hope may also be to bring left-leaning, secular Rojava more under the control of the conservative Iraqi Kurdish administration.

[Lordo]

why does it have to be conservative, why cant people be what ever they choose. this is a plan that will fail.

[Tim Drayton]

why does it have to be conservative, why cant people be what ever they choose. this is a plan that will fail.

Why indeed? That is not how Erdoğan and his gang see things, though. Look at one of the latest news items from Turkey. A women who posted a picture of herself on social media treading on a Quran has been hunted down at the behest of one of the gang, Ankara mayor Melih Gökçek - a man who has so little respect for the law that he sent in a team of workers to demolish trees at the Middle East Technical University even though at the time a court order was in place granting a stay of execution of that particular construction project - and she has now been arrested and charged under some ludicrous pretext or other. Of course these people want the everywhere in the Middle East to be conservative.

[Lordo]

the left wing are not allowed to thrive in terggy or any other part of the middle east on america's orders. it has been so since the mid 60s. america like their gurad dog to do as they wish, beyond that they can do what they like. which is why sooner or later the yanks will be bitten in the ass by the vipers they are sponsoring and have been for dacades.

[repulsewarrior]

Kurdish fighters killed in Syria buried in Turkey

Yet in Suruc's cemetery, in a part set aside for Syrian Kurds killed across the border, they aren't the only ones buried without their relatives.

Out of about 30 graves there so far, only five of them have known families, said Wahida Kushta, one of the volunteers who helped prepare Dabaan's body for burial.

"I do it to help. Let's support them now at least."

Just a day later, another five fighters were buried beside them in Suruc's cemetery. Wounded in Kobani, they had died in hospitals and their bodies were transferred to Suruc morgue Wednesday.

Like the three before them, their families weren't present.

One hadn't even been fully identified. His rough tombstone will bear his nom de guerre, the name he was known to his fellow fighters with: Tamhat Kobani.

Hundreds of supporters chanting slogans turned out to accompany three Kurdish fighters — two men and a woman barely out of her teens — to their final resting place in a dusty cemetery on the edge of the Turkish town of Suruc, within view of the Syrian border and the besieged town of Kobani. But there was one notable absence: their families.

The flag-draped coffin bearing the body of 20-year-old Hanim Dabaan was carried to her grave Tuesday by women who didn't know her, but wanted to show their support for those killed fighting the Islamic State group extremists. Idris Ahmad, 30, and Mohammed Mustafa, 25, were laid to rest beside her, also carried by volunteers.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a1c238d8 ... ied-turkey

[Tim Drayton]

Opposition member of parliament in Turkey, Mehmet Ali Ediboğlu, has alleged that 1000 "jihadists" have crossed from the Turkish province of Hatay to Syria in the past three weeks and that lorries said to be carrying humanitarian aid have actually transported arms to DAESH.

[miltiades]

"Ex ISIS Member Reveals Turkey, a NATO Member, Is Supporting Islamic State"
http://www.christianpost.com/news/ex-is ... te-129462/

Somehow from my opening post I knew that Turkey would not be joining the coalition againsts their cousins, ISIS.
"If Im wrong then be it, but I just can not see the Turkish parliament favouring action against their cousins, its a bit like GR and Vordo joining the coalition to fight their brothers !!"