Time to Kick 'Sometimes Ally' Turkey Out of NATO?

Time to Kick Turkey Out of NATO? (Politico) By JONATHAN SCHANZER

The mess in Syria only confirms an inconvenient truth: The Turks are no longer reliable allies.  

Turkey’s stock as a Western ally is plummeting. Ankara stubbornly resists joining the coalition unless it broadens its fight to topple Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. Turkey’s 200 or more F-16 fighter jets sit idle as the Islamic State makes alarming gains across Syria and Iraq. This stands in sharp contrast to other Muslim world allies – including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and even Jordan – that have taken part in the aerial campaign against the Islamic State.

Turkey’s absence is conspicuous. It’s the only NATO ally among these Muslim world partners. To be clear, the fight against the Islamic State is not a NATO mission, but it serves as a reminder of how little Erdogan’s regime has done to help preserve order in the Middle East. Hmmm....Strange i've been saying this for the last three years, the US finally woke up? Turkey has been the 'lifeline' for Iran these last years nobody wanted to see it. Read the full story here.


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The Turks massacred the Armenians, though they still deny complicity in this well-documented genocide. Indeed they have made it a crime to admit that Turkey committed genocide against the Armenians. Now the Turks are facilitating the massacre of another one of their enemies, the Kurds. As one Kurd aptly put it: “They don’t want to help what they say is their enemy. That is why it is in Turkey’s favor that Kobani falls to ISIS.”

Even before this recent treachery, the Turkish government refused to allow NATO forces landing rights and other passive logistical support in the war against Islamic State, that is ISIS. What good is an “ally” when that ally refuses to help during times of crisis.


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Turkish soldiers show their NATO supplied weapons not against Isis but Kurdish population in the southeast pic.twitter.com/3kg1krvyTX

— kurdish blogger (@kurdishblogger) October 9, 2014