I was following that in various regional outlets there. It made me wonder how the Mustafa Kemal outlook that has made the military fairly secular would come into play.
When I first saw the generals said no, I was glad they are around to rein Erdogan in.
The whole thing was jaw droppingly far fetched and sophomoric on Erdogans part and he came to heel quickly when swatted by the rolled up newspaper.
The honor of the nation is too important for a greasy right wing politician to squander on some tantrum.
The free world owes the Kurds so much for standing up to daesh and revealing its weakness.
The linguistic bloat attending many media reports of the recent desperate daesh raids is telling.
Somehow, 30 or so guys and a few exploding trucks is puffed up to an 'offensive' as if we're talking about El Alamain.
It is obviously a sign of daesh panic and desperation. A true offensive would involve larger field formations but these would be bombed to splinters out of the gate.
The quiet low key courage of these women has to be one of the most moving stories of my 60 year life time.
And if it should become a kind of fulcrum that leads women in this region to question and refute the moth eaten patriarchy that stifles it, we could see watershed changes.
This is why Erdogan has to go. As it is, he's reduced to complaining as Turkish ambitions to be part of the EU are more important than underhanded daesh support.
"That's a nice NATO membership you have there, Mr Erdogan... sure would be a shame if something happened to it.."
This is interesting. I wonder if that data trove that came from the Delta raid on the Daesh finance leader revealed lots of information about Turkish culpability.
Maybe the Turks were told the game is up via back channels and now Erdogan has been knocked down a few pegs making these operations less susceptible to Turkish meddling.
The Kurds are also more proficient at air to ground stuff and more disciplined than the various militia and regular forces.
I was following that in various regional outlets there. It made me wonder how the Mustafa Kemal outlook that has made the military fairly secular would come into play.
When I first saw the generals said no, I was glad they are around to rein Erdogan in.
The whole thing was jaw droppingly far fetched and sophomoric on Erdogans part and he came to heel quickly when swatted by the rolled up newspaper.
The honor of the nation is too important for a greasy right wing politician to squander on some tantrum.
The free world owes the Kurds so much for standing up to daesh and revealing its weakness.
The linguistic bloat attending many media reports of the recent desperate daesh raids is telling.
Somehow, 30 or so guys and a few exploding trucks is puffed up to an 'offensive' as if we're talking about El Alamain.
It is obviously a sign of daesh panic and desperation. A true offensive would involve larger field formations but these would be bombed to splinters out of the gate.
The quiet low key courage of these women has to be one of the most moving stories of my 60 year life time.
And if it should become a kind of fulcrum that leads women in this region to question and refute the moth eaten patriarchy that stifles it, we could see watershed changes.
This is why Erdogan has to go. As it is, he's reduced to complaining as Turkish ambitions to be part of the EU are more important than underhanded daesh support.
"That's a nice NATO membership you have there, Mr Erdogan... sure would be a shame if something happened to it.."
This is interesting. I wonder if that data trove that came from the Delta raid on the Daesh finance leader revealed lots of information about Turkish culpability.
Maybe the Turks were told the game is up via back channels and now Erdogan has been knocked down a few pegs making these operations less susceptible to Turkish meddling.
The Kurds are also more proficient at air to ground stuff and more disciplined than the various militia and regular forces.