Turkey Allows US to Use Air Base to Attack ISIS in Syria
by Mary Chastain 23 Jul 2015
On Thursday, Turkey
agreed to allow the US military to use an airbase to strike the Islamic State
(ISIS/ISIL) in Syria. The news comes only a
few days after a horrific suicide bombing in Suruc, which is just across the
border from Kobane.
Retired General John Allen and
Department
of Defense Under Secretary of
Defense for Policy Christine Wormuth met with Turkish
officials earlier this month to iron out the details. The agreement means the
US military will use the Incirlik Air Base, but no one will use Turkish aircraft
in the strikes. The air base already houses six US Predator drones. Turkish
media reports at least
two “will be armed with Hellfire air-to-surface missiles.”
President Barack Obama and Turkish President Recep Tayyip
Erdoğan spoke with each on Wednesday to make the agreement official. However, a
White House spokesman declined to offer a
statement when Reuters reached out to them.
Early Thursday morning an ISIS
terrorist “shot and killed a Turkish soldier” just across the border in Syria.
Turkish military said that soldiers killed at least one militant.
On Monday, a suicide bomber murdered 32 people
and injured 100 in Suruc at “a cultural centre hosting anti-Islamic State
activists.” Those at the event were about to head to Kobane, a strategic
Kurdish town recently recaptured by Kurdish forces. Suruc is
directly across the border from Kobane. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said it is a “high probability” ISIS
caused the attack.
“What’s necessary will be done against whomever is
responsible,” he declared. “This is an attack that targeted Turkey.”
The increased efforts against the Islamic State follow
repeated suggestions by many in the region that Turkey’s emphasis on taking
down the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad has
pushed Turkish leadership to help fighters who would later join ISIS. In
July 2014, an ISIS member told The
Jerusalem Post that Turkey provided funds for the terrorist group:
Turkey paved the way for us. Had Turkey not shown such
understanding for us, the Islamic State would not be in its current place. It
[Turkey] showed us affection. Large [numbers] of our mujahedeen received
medical treatment in Turkey. We do not have the support of Saudi Arabia, but many Saudi
families who believe in jihad do assist us. But anyhow, we will no longer need
it, soon. We will build the Islamic state in the territories from Tigris to
Jordan and Palestine and to Lebanon. Sunni Law will rule.
A few months later, a Turkish nurse complained
to authorities about treating members from the Islamic State. The
nurse, only known as E.G., works in a hospital in Mersin, which is on the coast
of the Mediterranean Sea and across the ocean from Syria.
“We treat them, and they go on to decapitate people,” she said. “I am
sick of treating wounded ISIL militants.”
Bashar al-Assad
Bashar al-Assad
is the president of Syria, and
supporting the Syrian Electronic Army
a hacker group.
Note: Syrian
Electronic Army reportedly hacked the Amnesty
International, the Human Rights
Watch, and the NPR.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for Amnesty
International, the Human Rights
Watch, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the
Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
and the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch, a benefactor for
the NPR, and the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for Amnesty International, the Human
Rights Watch, the NPR, the Brookings Institution (think tank), and
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
John
R. Allen is a fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and was a U.S.
Marine Corps general.
Derek H. Chollet
was a fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a special assistant to the president for the Barack Obama administration, and is an assistant
secretary for the U.S. Department of
Defense.
Charles W. Duncan
Jr. was an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Robert S. McNamara
was an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a secretary for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews was an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the president of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a
2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Jamie S. Gorelick
was a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank), and a general counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense.
Chas. W. Freeman
Jr. is a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), was the National
Intelligence Council chairman nominee for the Barack Obama administration, and a U.S. ambassador for Saudi Arabia.
Morton I.
Abramowitz was the president of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and was a U.S. ambassador
for Turkey.
Andrew Carnegie
was the founder of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
David A. Hamburg
is the president emeritus for the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, and an adviser for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Edward P.
Djerejian is a trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, and was a U.S. ambassador for Syria.
Newton
N. Minow is an honorary trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
William
A. Owens was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and a
senior military assistant to the secretary for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the U.S.
Department of Defense, and the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
David A. Hamburg
is the president emeritus for the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, and an adviser for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Ford Foundation
was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank), and Amnesty International.
Syrian
Electronic Army reportedly hacked the Amnesty
International, the Human Rights
Watch, and the NPR.
Bashar al-Assad
is supporting the Syrian Electronic Army
a hacker group, and the president of Syria.
Cecile Richards
is a trustee at the Ford Foundation,
the president of the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, and was a grant overseer for the Turner Foundation.
Ted
Turner is the chairman for the Turner
Foundation, and a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Sam
Nunn is a co-chairman & CEO for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), and the chairman for the Center for Strategic and International
Studies (think tank).
Christine
Wormuth was a senior fellow at the Center
for Strategic and International Studies (think tank), a staff director for
the Congressional Independent Commission
on the Security Forces of Iraq, a special assistant to the president for
the Barack Obama administration, and
is the deputy under secretary for the U.S.
Department of Defense.
James L. Jones
Jr. was a trustee at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies (think tank), a chairman for the Congressional Independent Commission on the
Security Forces of Iraq, a national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration, a men's
basketball team forward at Georgetown
University, a commander, U.S. European Command for the U.S. Department of Defense, and a U.S. Marine Corps general.
Chuck
Hagel was a professor at Georgetown
University, a secretary at the U.S.
Department of Defense, a chairman for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and is the secretary
at the U.S. Department of Defense.
Eric S. Edelman
is a director at the Atlantic Council of
the United States (think tank), was the under secretary for the U.S. Department of Defense, and a U.S.
ambassador for Turkey.
Marc
Grossman was a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), a U.S. ambassador for Turkey, and a trustee at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
German
Marshall Fund of the United States was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the U.S.
Department of Defense, and the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Celeste A.
Wallander was a deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Defense, and is a fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Karen Donfried
is the president of the German Marshall
Fund of the United States, and was the assistant to the president for the Barack Obama administration.
Gregory
B. Craig is a trustee at the German
Marshall Fund of the United States, was the White House counsel for the Barack Obama administration, and a
trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank).
Chas. W. Freeman
Jr. is a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), was the National
Intelligence Council chairman nominee for the Barack Obama administration, and a U.S. ambassador for Saudi Arabia.
Morton I.
Abramowitz was the president of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and was a U.S. ambassador
for Turkey.
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