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The Magistrate

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4. Sounds Pretty Much Like Blather To Me, Sir

Reply to bemildred (Original post)

Sat Oct 18, 2014, 12:59 PM

Oct 2014

They seem to be having some impact on the fighting there.

The Turkish government is in a rather odd place here. What they want, a NATO drive against Assad, is not going to happen. What they do not want, increasing militancy and autonomy among the Kurds in the region, they are going to get regardless of what they do. If they continue on present course, however, the form in which they get what is coming will be worse for them.

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Air strikes against ISIS in Kobani are just a PR exercise, Turkey says [View all] bemildred Oct 2014 OP

Conrad Black: The Middle East’s strange, strange bedfellows bemildred Oct 2014 #1

If Turkey is so worried about ISIS and Iran onecaliberal Oct 2014 #2

Turkish oppositon attacks dropping of anti-graft case bemildred Oct 2014 #3

Sounds Pretty Much Like Blather To Me, Sir The Magistrate Oct 2014 #4

Indeed. Sir. bemildred Oct 2014 #6

Even If They Did Receive Such Assurances, Sir, They Ought To Have Known Better Than To Believe Them The Magistrate Oct 2014 #7

Yeah, it seems naive. That's kind of what I mean. bemildred Oct 2014 #8

AKP <3s KDP AtomicDryad Oct 2014 #10

Nothing like a external enemy (ISIS) to get politiicans to put their little personal disputes aside bemildred Oct 2014 #11

At the risk of being pelted with tomatos... (Also, links for Rojava politics) AtomicDryad Oct 2014 #12

The State Dept. has started meeting with Syrian Kurds. That probably burns Turkey's butter-- TwilightGardener Oct 2014 #5

After repelling ISIL, PKK fighters are the new heroes of Kurdistan bemildred Oct 2014 #9