It is as I have said for years: the U.S. should reconfigure its international alliances to deal realistically with the jihad threat, getting closer to nations that also face that threat, and ending the sham alliance with jihad-promoting states such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey. Turkey is, as it has shown here, in no sense an ally. The pretense benefits the U.S. not at all.
“Turkey Spills Out Secret Details Of US Troop Locations,” by Jonah Bennett, Daily Caller News Foundation, July 19, 2017 (thanks to the Geller Report):
Turkey has decided to knock the U.S. via its state news agency by leaking out secret details of U.S. troop locations in northern Syria.
Anadolu news agency published a list of 10 U.S. military installations in northern Syria and even included details about the number of troops in specific areas, which is a shocking move for a NATO ally, The Daily Beast reports.
Two of the bases were already known. Some other locations had previously leaked out through a news agency in Iran, but Turkey compiled all of the information and put it out on blast through Anadolu Tuesday via its English language site.
A spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve asked The Daily Beast not to publish base details from the Anadolu news agency….
Robeaver says
Turkey has become an enemy of the West. Kick it out of NATO. Sanctions.
pandainc says
How about getting US out of NATO? If Europe wants to allow the Turkish thug to stick around, deal the U. S. OUT! In fact, for whatever possible excuse we have for still protecting these clowns has long since passed.
DP111 says
Kick it out of NATO and then throw them out of Cyprus, which they have beeon occu[pyoing for decades.
If Turkey resists then we have an alliance with Russia to take back Hagia Sophia.
gravenimage says
I don’t think Russia would go for this. It would upset the Iranians…
Mike C says
With friends like these who need enemies?
Mike says
Kick them out of NATO.
In that region, the only possible reliable quantities are: Israel, Georgia, Armenia (if not locked to the Russians), a future Kurdistan and Cyprus. Anything else seems like a waste of time.
Jordan, Morocco and UAE perhaps, as long as their monarchs are in control.
elee says
Muslim “allies”……when they aren’t wearing “friendly” uniforms and killing our people…..
Tom says
Erdogan is no friend or ally of the west and has recently escalated his rhetoric even more than that below
“Assimilation is a crime against humanity. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam, Islam is Islam. The mosques are our barracks, The minorets are our bayonets, The cupolas our helmets, and the faithful our soldiers.” Tyyip Erdogan, President of Turkey 2008
Turkey has to be tossed out of NATO
John Forbes says
THE WEST SEEMS LEADERLESS & ITS POLITICIANS TOTALLY CORRUPT & SELF SERVING.
IT IS THIS TYPE OF LEADERSHIP( OR SHOULD I SAY TOTAL LACK OF LEADERSHIP & refusal to do anything at all ) that leads to CHAOS & eventual WAR !
The CONTINUING appeasement gives impetus & drive to the ISLAMISTS led by the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD who fully understand DEMOCRATIC weaknesses & realize that there is very GOOD reason to believe that ISLAM can win & DEMOCRACY can be defeated & destroyed as little by little the FREEDOMS are REMOVED !
OUR corrupt POLITICIANS either do not CARE or are TOO COMPROMISED to do anything !
Realistically a BIG confrontation is on the HORIZON !!
moeped says
Unfortunately correct. Conflict always exists where “extremism” is allowed to take hold.
Michael Copeland says
The big confrontation is approaching the foreground.
Daniel Triplett says
We have no Muslim “Allies.”
They’re all deceivers.
Guest says
This is an act of war
Keys says
This tyrant, Ergodan, is capable of doing what his ancestors did just around 100 years ago – genocide.
The Turks murdered 1.5 million Armenians; to this day they deny doing it. This genocide began in 1915, but even before that there were other massacres by the Turks.
See the “Adana Massacre” of 1909, where they murdered 20,000 – 30,000. They also murdered thousands of Greeks and Assyrians who lived in Turkey.
I recommend an excellent recently released movie (a love story based on historically true events) on the Armenian Genocide – “The Promise”.
Christian Bale plays an American reporter trying to get the truth out about the massacres. In the Bonus Material Interview he talks about why making a movie about this horrendous evil is necessary so history is not repeated.
The Turks deny this, but many made it out, including about 4,000 who were rescued from a mountain, Musa Dagh, by a French battleship.
http://www.thepromise.movie
John A. Marre says
It is foolish to trust Turkey. They pretend to be on our side, but use us.
sidney penny says
“It is foolish to trust Turkey. They pretend to be on our side, but use us.”
Change Turkey to Pakistan and you get the same result.
elee says
Goes for all Muslims. “War is deception” says their Prophet, and their Book requires them to maintain constant war with infidels. They are allowed to make truces only when it is to their advantage, and they are required to break any truce whenever doing so is to their advantage.
sidney penny says
“ending the sham alliance with jihad-promoting states such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey.”
Now there is a sensible solution Robert but will the current administration take it or continue as in previous years
gravenimage says
Turkey leaks secret details of U.S. troop locations in northern Syria
………………….
Which puts US troops in danger.
Turkey is no ally of ours.
Keys says
Indeed. They are no longer an ally, and no muslim nation is a true ally.
Our commanders need to close Incirlik Airbase and get the tactical nuclear weapons out of there asap. There are other alternatives for American airbases in the region that are in non-muslim countries.
Keys says
From Various sources on Wikipedia “Incirlik Airbase”
“Laicie Heeley, a fellow with the Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense program at the Stimson Center said in 2016:
“From a security point of view, it’s a roll of the dice to continue to have approximately 50 of America’s nuclear weapons stationed at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, just 70 miles from the Syrian border. These weapons have zero utility on the European battlefield and today are more of a liability than asset to our NATO allies.”
Also:
“2016 Turkish coup attempt
As a result of the 2016 Turkish coup d’état attempt, external electrical power from Turkey had been cut to the base and a Turkish no fly order had been put into effect for US military aircraft in the area. Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook “U.S. facilities at Incirlik are operating on internal power sources.” EUCOM spokesman Navy Capt. Danny Hernandez said about the situation “All our assets in Turkey are fully under control and there was no attempt to challenge that status.” “There was not chaos at this base,”. The security level at base has moved to DELTA, the highest level, U.S. personnel are ordered restricted to base, and locals were denied access.[21][22] By 17th of July commercial electrical power remained disconnected but permission from Turkey to conduct US anti-Daesh air operations from Incirlik resumed, the Turkish base commander, General Bekir Ercan Van, was arrested by Turkish forces loyal to sitting president Erdoğan.[23] General Van sought asylum from the United States but was denied.[24]
Due to increasing risks some suggest moving NATO’s nuclear weapons out of Turkey.[25][26][27][28][29][30][31]”
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If they don’t move them out, some poor Ametican commnder will have to decide whether or not to detonate them on site so they do not fall in to Ergodan (our enemy and the enemy of all infidels) hands.
Daniel Triplett says
You make some good points. I definitely agree with you about removing the 50 nuke weapons.
I’ve been to Incirlik AB dozens and dozens of times, and have overflown Turkey on missions hundreds of times. Turkey never allowed us to air-refuel over their territory. On missions between Iraq and Europe, I always had to fly WAY out of our way over the Black Sea to RZ with the Tanker, but the Tanker was based out of Incirlik, so I don’t understand why they prohibited refueling over their sovereign territory.
Incirlik is strategically important for our conventional campaign against the bad guys. But, I don’t believe any kind of conventional campaign is going to burn down the Islamic Forest. This war needs to be fought from a Wyoming bunker and a US Submarine.
gravenimage says
True, Keys.
Mockingjay says
Turkey keeps crossing every red line.
– Germany finally had enough, not because of this, but because of the recent arrest of a German human rights activist in Istanbul, and has now announced to change its policies toward Turkey. They are warning Germans against vacationing, and German businesess against investing in Turkey.
– When all of this was being announced by German foreign minister Gabriel, I was actually waiting for voices to rise up against all of these measures, claiming that acting with such hostility against Turkey would surely antagonize the many “Erdogan Turks” living in Germany, causing them to feel more and more alienated from and angry towards their country of residence, with then, as “a natural result”, a growing risk of aggression and violence from them.
– That is, after all, the reasoning that is always being applied when it comes to taking measures against islam(ists).
– I have not yet heard this reasoning so far. But one thing’s for sure: with so many Erdogan supporting Turks living in Germany, the situation there could get REAL ugly, REAL fast.
And you bet erdogan knows it.
Europe is in DEEP.
762x51FMJ says
What does Erdogan and little bo peep have in common.
they both have Kurds in their whey.
Keys says
LOL !
Peter says
Turkey stopped being a Western ally in 2003. Sultan Erdogan’s Islamist aspirations and proclivities need to be recognized for what they are: a threat to the West. Turkey’s ascension to the E.U. should be permanently terminated, and it should be expelled from NATO and the Council of Europe.
David, Thailand says
Stop whining! Turkey is an Islamist member of NATO, successfully blackmailing and creating havoc with an impotent EU, and Western leaders have allowed this situation to deteriorate to the point that Erdogan can do whatever he pleases, and with impunity, because on the other side is an entire civilisation of pc pussies.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Turkey ceased to be Kemalist last year with Erdogan’s false flag maneuver. You would think the American military would have the smarts to figure out that this is not the same country; secular Turkey is dead.
Eric says
Erdogan has never been an ally of the USA. He has armed and financed the Jihadi’s in Syria. Is grabbing dictatorial power in Turkey. He was close friends with our Jihadi in Chief Barack Obama. Erdogan dreams of reviving the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
Once again I call for the USA to remove all of its intelligence and military assets out of Turkey. Turkey should be kicked out of NATO and never be allowed in the EU.
Unfortunately our current president is more concerned with Trump Towers in Istanbul, Turkey than the well being of the USA.
Eric
KRIS says
Yet EU bureaucrats are still pushing for Turkey membership in EU. WTF!!!!!!!??
Troybeam says
As a reminder people this man funded this Mosque:
https://diyanetamerica.org/about-us/divine-ground-between-us/
A $110 million dollar compound across the river form Washington D.C.
There are thousands of Mosques that have been built after 9/11 thanks to our government’s appeasement to Islam, what would we find if we actually raided these Mosques? You can thank the democrats, LBJ for opening the door to allow hell to enter our nation, think of Europe and all its violence against the citizens of each nation that its inhabited, think of the Muslim who shot and killed an unarmed woman in the patrol car and finally think of everything the concerns Muslims, law enforcement and the media: how much is not reported,, swept under the table etc all to protect the Muslims while we the people get hurt or killed.
Transmaster says
No we don’t want to kick Turkey out of NATO because that is what Putin wants. His goal is to break up NATO. What needs to be done is recognize the sovereign country of Kurdistan and once that is done bring Kurdistan into NATO. This will piss off Russia, cause Erdogan to start shitting rolls of barb wire, put Iran into conniption fits because the whole northern part of Iran is a Kurdish ethnic area. As far a Pakistan goes the best way of dealing with that backstabbing country is the strengthen our alliance with India, as Trump is doing. Indian well knows Pakistani and having a strong military alliance with India is the best way of roasting them.
alex9234 says
“No we don’t want to kick Turkey out of NATO because that is what Putin wants. His goal is to break up NATO.” – Yes, Putin wants NATO gone, but I think Turkey should have been kicked out of NATO years ago. The only reason they were included into NATO was to serve as a bulwark against the Soviets.
“bring Kurdistan into NATO. This will piss off Russia, cause Erdogan to start shitting rolls of barb wire” – What about Ukraine in NATO? I think that would anger Russia even more.
“Indian well knows Pakistani and having a strong military alliance with India is the best way of roasting them.” – Well, and then there’s Pakistan’s BFF China. If Pakistan is to be stopped, China has to be dealt with as well.
gravenimage says
Transmaster, I am no fan of Putin. But the idea that we have to continue to pretend that a Mohammedan country that is putting our troops at risk is just madness. Ousting Turkey would not weaken NATO–it would strengthen it.
Jacqueleen says
Erdogan is a madman…who wants to be in control of the world….Tyrannical Dictator….I would never trust this man….He is north of Israel and just may be Magog.