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Comrade Grumpy

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4. Turkey has done plenty, not much of it good.

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 22, 2014, 11:28 AM

Sep 2014

It provided safe havens for ISIS and other rebels.

It allowed unfettered transit across its territory for foreign jihadis.

It interfered in the internal affairs of its neighbor, Syria, with the grave miscalculation that the regime would fall easily.

It refused to join the new alliance against ISIS.

It cut some kind of deal with ISIS to free its hostages, and it isn't talking.

Turkey has really helped make the mess the region faces right now.

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Syria refugee flood to Turkey hits 100,000 [View all] Omaha Steve Sep 2014 OP

Isis also flees to Turkey to safety flamingdem Sep 2014 #1

Monday update : Turkey clamps down on Syria border after Kurdish unrest. dipsydoodle Sep 2014 #2

So who still thinks NATO member Turkey has done nothing? 1 million folks to care for is not nothing. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #3

Turkey has done plenty, not much of it good. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2014 #4

ISIS has been holding almost 50 diplomatic hostages since July.....kind of puts things into context. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #5

And what kind of deal did Turkey make to get those hostages back? You tell me. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2014 #6

I have no idea what the deal was, except 50 families in Turkey are relieved it did not take a war to Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #7