The Conflict in Iraq as Related to Turkey.

[telkon]

Turkish trucks to northern Iraq can go via Iran | Business , Regional | THE DAILY STAR

 

[Timur]

Why is everybody entering Turkey except Turkmens?

politics.. if you accept them in your land then they will want to have the right to stay.. our folk will want to have them safe.. so they wont go back or many of them will stay..

you will loose your right in north iraq.. if the people stay there then you will have the right to claim land or to interact there..

but if you ask me take north iraq and arm turkmen with everything we have..

 

[what]

Seems like the "so strong" Peshmerga is getting pounded by the ISIS.

 

[rmi5]

politics.. if you accept them in your land then they will want to have the right to stay.. our folk will want to have them safe.. so they wont go back or many of them will stay..

you will loose your right in north iraq.. if the people stay there then you will have the right to claim land or to interact there..

but if you ask me take north iraq and arm turkmen with everything we have..

100% agreed. I was going to post the same thing.

 

[waz]

The Iraqi conflict, with regards to how it relates to Turkey should start with, and end with the Turkmens.

No need to get involved brothers. Look after your own.

 

[Hakan]

I personally know turkmens that are from syria who are living in turkey. They just want the war to end and are peaceful people.

I doubt that the border security are asking people their race before they come in.

 

[Hakan]

Intelligence Source: Turks Launch Bombing Strikes on ISIS
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A former high ranking CIA official in Baghdad tells Newsweek that Turkish jets carried out airstrikes on Islamic State (I.S.) militants threatening Kurdish refugees--an assertion that Ankara denies.

The White House, meanwhile, said it had launched humanitarian air drops to the beleaguered Kurds trapped by advancing I.S. forces in the northern part of Iraq and was considering air strikes to fend off an expected assault.

U.S. forces were placed “on a hair trigger,” according to NBC News, with a twofold priority: to provide humanitarian relief for refugees from Islamic State aggression and to protect U.S. officials on the ground.

I.S. forces were reported to be advancing on Irbil, where the U.S. has a consulate manned by 30 to 50 State Department officials and a significant number of U.S. military advisers. NBC News reported an unnamed senior U.S. official saying, “We're not going to let them take Irbil.”

Kurdish TV claimed earlier in a day of conflicting reports that American jets had carried out the strikes on Islamic State position outside the town of Kalak, 25 miles northwest of Irbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region.

“The Turks are doing it,” said the former CIA officer, who maintains close contacts in Iraq, especially with Kurdish authorities. “There’s no question about it,” he said on condition of anonymity until he could gather more corroboration from his sources in the region. “But certainly we are giving them targeting data.”

The CIA did not immediately respond to a request for clarification.

A resident of of Kalak told McClatchy News that “she had seen the aircraft and had heard the explosions coming from behind Islamic State lines, which are slightly more than a mile away." The resident said because it was dark she could not see any markings on the aircraft.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby emphatically denied U.S. jets had carried out the strikes, calling reports of such “completely false.”

“No such action was taken,” Kirby said in a tweet.

The Turkish military denied local Kurdish media reports that Turkish planes entered Iraqi airspace to track the extremist movement’s forces, Bloomberg reported, citing a one-sentence statement on its web site.

A Turkish official told the New York Times that the country’s air force had not conducted any operations. “There is no such thing,” he said, referring to airstrikes.

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said earlier Thursday that “Turkish aid supplies had been dropped in the mountains near Sinjar in northern Iraq, where about 50,000 Yezidis have taken shelter after militants from the Islamic State drove them from their homes during the group’s latest advance,” Bloomberg reported. “He did not say whether Turkish aircraft carried out the operation.”

Turkish F-16s were said to be patrolling the skies over the area.

After an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council Thursday afternoon, Iraq’s U.N. ambassador, Mohamed Ali Alhakim, said Baghdad had not asked Turkey for any “interference.”

http://www.newsweek.com/intelligence-source-turks-launched-bombing-strikes-isis-263483

 

[usernameless]

VIDEO: ISIL threatens to 'liberate' Istanbul

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), who now refer to themselves as the Islamic State (IS), has threatened to "liberate" Istanbul, while accusing Turkey of cutting off the flow of the Euphrates River, drying up northern Syria, including Raqqa, "the capital of the Islamic State."

"I pray to God that the apostate [Turkish] government reconsiders its decisions because if they don't reconsider it now, we'll reconsider it for them by liberating Istanbul," ISIL's "press officer" Abu Mosa told Vice News in Raqqa.

When reporter Medyan Dairieh asked if this is a threat, Abu Mosa answered: "Yes, it is a clear threat. If they don't open [the Atatürk dam in Turkey that diverts the water], we'll unblock it from Istanbul."

Dairieh had become the first journalist to document the inner workings of ISIL. He spent three weeks embedded with ISIL, “gaining unprecedented access to the group in Iraq and Syria,” according to Vice News.

The news website released the first part of his footage Aug. 7 in which Dairieh heads to the frontline in Raqqa, where IS fighters are laying siege on one of the Syrian Army’s bases.

Here is the second part in which Dairieh meets an ISIL member from Belgium who works to indoctrinate some of the youngest members of the group:

Fair use of Euphrates waters has been a problem between Turkey, Syria and Iraq since the 1970s.

On May 13, the Syrian government had accused jihadist groups of cutting off water supplies in Aleppo. Two weeks after this statement, Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar had claimed that the Turkish government cut the flow of the Euphrates, an allegation that Ankara rejects.

ISIL is holding 49 Turkish citizens, including Öztürk Yılmaz, Turkey’s consul general in Mosul, as captives since June 13 when they raided and seized the consular building in northern Iraq.

The group describes the Syrian city Raqqa as their "capital."

VIDEO: ISIL threatens to 'liberate' Istanbul - MIDEAST

 

[rmi5]

"I pray to God that the apostate [Turkish] government reconsiders its decisions because if they don't reconsider it now, we'll reconsider it for them by liberating Istanbul," ISIL's "press officer" Abu Mosa told Vice News in Raqqa.

ISIL are like a kid who needs a serious spank and punishment. Those stupids think that they are superpowers

 

[1000]

All those insults and making fun of the Iraqi army done by Kurds and Kurdish forces, now they fled themselves.

No idea what i'm supposed to say about that

 

[usernameless]

ISIL are like a kid who needs a serious spank and punishment. Those stupids think that they are superpowers

that's what happens when your enemies are occasionally fleeing, you will think you're unstoppable Turkey better play this smart and let the krg and isil spank each other.

 

[Informant]

All those insults and making fun of the Iraqi army done by Kurds and Kurdish forces, now they fled themselves.

No idea what i'm supposed to say about that

Iraqis are cowards? What is wrong with the soldiers there?

 

[1000]

Iraqis are cowards? What is wrong with the soldiers there?

They're not cowards, Iraq did well in it's previous wars minus the wars against the US since they're a superpower, Kurds are not Iraqis and people were boasting about how brave they were all the time, ISIS never attacked them until now, this was the first organized ISIS attack against them and they fled.

The reason is because they received bad training ( Iraqis and Kurds ) and because they never faced any firefight ( Kurds ).
They take too many pictures, some with ghost masks and girls.

Nowadays Peshmerga relies on nationalism and feeling superior, Iraqi soldiers put their trust in religious figures.

As you see 2-4 flags on each car as if it's some clown show

 

[Informant]

They're not cowards, Iraq did well in it's previous wars minus the wars against the US since they're a superpower, Kurds are not Iraqis and people were boasting about how brave they were all the time, ISIS never attacked them until now, this was the first organized ISIS attack against them and they fled.

The reason is because they received bad training ( Iraqis and Kurds ) and because they never faced any firefight ( Kurds ).
They take too many pictures, some with ghost masks and girls.

Nowadays Peshmerga relies on nationalism and feeling superior, Iraqi soldiers put their trust in religious figures.

As you see 2-4 flags on each car as if it's some clown show

Yup some thing is really wrong with the mentality. Plus what use is a soldier if he is fearful of his life. And i do agree on the Kurds boasting, they themselves ran.

Iraq needs to step away from sectarianism, and put trust in its flag rather than mullas.

 

[usernameless]

They're not cowards, Iraq did well in it's previous wars minus the wars against the US since they're a superpower, Kurds are not Iraqis and people were boasting about how brave they were all the time, ISIS never attacked them until now, this was the first organized ISIS attack against them and they fled.

The reason is because they received bad training ( Iraqis and Kurds ) and because they never faced any firefight ( Kurds ).
They take too many pictures, some with ghost masks and girls.

Nowadays Peshmerga relies on nationalism and feeling superior, Iraqi soldiers put their trust in religious figures.

As you see 2-4 flags on each car as if it's some clown show

The separatist Kurds are mostly show. they like to create this image of themselves being a more professional army than the Iraqi govt while they are not and show their women as soldiers to win foreign sympathy or to compensate for the lack of balls among their men. one of the most deceiving and two-faced folks. we shall what will become of them in the following days/weeks.

Is pkk officially fighting too? any info about that in Iraqi sources?