• Turkey 'agrees to US air base use'
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[thumb] http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/78171000/jpg/_78171164_2ecde3bd-e4ab-4efb-b422-f568c9cfe3e9.jpg [/thumb] [thumb] http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/78096000/gif/_78096355_iraq_syria_air_strikes_20140810_976_v2.gif [/thumb] [quote] [B]Turkey has agreed to let the US use its military bases in the campaign against Islamic State militants, US National Security Adviser Susan Rice says.[/B] Ms Rice said the US welcomed the new agreement, which included use of the Incirlik air base in Turkey's south. [/quote] [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-29591916[/URL]
Looks like we might be giving air support against ISIL in Syria then.
Kinda ironic since Germany is now claiming that Turkey is providing "undeclared" [URL="http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/12102014"]support[/URL] to ISIS in Syria.
[QUOTE=maxspeed3006;46220032]Kinda ironic since Germany is now claiming that Turkey is providing "undeclared" [URL="http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/12102014"]support[/URL] to ISIS in Syria.[/QUOTE] People love to hate Turkey.
This won't fucking matter if ISIS is already on the Turkish border. We need to deploy grunts and actually start fighting back.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;46220173]This won't fucking matter if ISIS is already on the Turkish border. We need to deploy grunts and actually start fighting back.[/QUOTE] You should plant more resource buildings though, youre 200 gold low on deploying grunts
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;46220173]This won't fucking matter if ISIS is already on the Turkish border. We need to deploy grunts and actually start fighting back.[/QUOTE] Why waste lives when our drones can take dozens of them out without a single casualty on our end?
[QUOTE=Buck.;46220161]People love to hate Turkey.[/QUOTE] They make it too easy.
[QUOTE=Korova;46220290]Why waste lives when our drones can take dozens of them out without a single casualty on our end?[/QUOTE] Becuase half the time you also hit civilians? If anything, ISIS knows this and will use this fact to prevent drone-strikes.
[QUOTE=Korova;46220290]Why waste lives when our drones can take dozens of them out without a single casualty on our end?[/QUOTE] Drones don't occupy land against an enemy. It just drops an explosive and hopes it hits someone important.
[QUOTE=Medevila;46220925]As if there aren't grounds for it? There's a bit of a conflict of interest here, Turkey isn't exactly secular, and is in the position of helping the west ~lead a crusade against Sunni Muslims~ by offering assitance[/QUOTE] Considering also that Turkey has been one of the more stable/resilient countries in the Middle East, a relatively good buffer/interface country knowing the pros/cons of both Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
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