Thursday, September 11, 2014

Turkey Refuses to Allow US to Use Their Airbases to Bomb ISIS

Shouldn't the President have made sure before making that speech last night?

From the Daily Star of Lebanon:
Turkey will refuse to allow a US-led coalition to attack jihadists in neighbouring Iraq and Syria from its air bases, nor will it take part in combat operations against militants, a government official told AFP Thursday.

"Turkey will not be involved in any armed operation but will entirely concentrate on humanitarian operations," the official said on condition of anonymity.

The decision echoes the country's refusal to allow the US to station 60,000 troops in Turkey in 2003 to invade Iraq from the north, which triggered a crisis between the two allies.

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