NATO Turkey annexation of north Syria like north Cyprus
Date
11/25/2015 11:06:54 PM
(MENAFN- Asia Times) Turkish invasion of northern Cyprus in 1974
Back in July Turkey also called for an emergency NATO meeting after an ISIS attack in the Kurdish town of Suruc (that Kurds blame on collusion of Turkish police) in order to justify and legitimize its bombing campaign against the PKK and war on Turkish Kurds. Ankara was able to extract a statement from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: 'The security of the alliance is indivisible and we stand in strong solidarity with Turkey.'
It likewise extracted a statement from the White House that Turkey had a right to defend itself and go after the Kurds thereby giving a green light for Ankara to pulverize the PKK and alienate US key ally Syrian Kurdish militia forces who were the most effective ground forces fighting ISIS.
In September Turkey again extracted a statement of solidarity from NATO SACEUR General Breedlove at the NATO Military Committee conference in Istanbul.
In October reports from two CHP deputies in the Turkish parliament corroborate previous testimonies that the notorious sarin gas attack at Ghouta was a false flag orchestrated by Turkish intelligence willing to commit the war crime of sacrificing 1300 innocent civilians to goad US into the Syrian war to topple Assad.
Turkey's unhealthy pattern as arsonist-firefighter so exasperated NATO member Germany that in August Berlin removed its Patriot batteries from Turkey.
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As former NATO chairman of the Military Committee German general Harald Kujat (ret.) said in an interview on ARD-TV last October he criticized 'that's what Turkey wants to provoke [NATO Article 5 on mutual defence] Turkey basically wants to drag NATO into this situation because the actual goal of Turkey is to neutralize AssadISIS's actions and what's happening to the Kurds are subsidiary'
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