NATO Will Protect Turkey, Says Secretary General

[Purveyor]

Source: Euronews

The NATO military alliance will stand by Turkey if it proves necessary to protect the country from attacks by the group calling itself Islamic State (ISIL), NATO Secetary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday.

This comes as ISIL militants raised their flag on a building on the outskirts of the Syrian border town of Kobani, just one kilometre away from Turkish territory.

“Turkey should know that NATO will be there if there is any spillover, any attacks on Turkey as a consequence of the violence we see in Syria,” said Stoltenberg.

Kobani’s Kurdish defenders said ISIL fighters had not reached the city centre.

Read more: http://www.euronews.com/2014/10/06/nato-will-protect-turkey-says-secretary-general/

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Poor Turkey. Now threatened by the monster it helped create.

[malthaussen]

2. I'll say one thing for these guys...

... they are spreading almost as fast as their ancestors did when al-Islam came storming out of the desert 1400 years ago.

-- Mal

[Baclava]

3. by "NATO" they mean us, right?

while Turkey sits and watches