With friends like these….
According to the Military Times, Turkey’s state-run media broadcast the locations of our secret bases in northern Syria;
Turkey’s state-run news outlet, the Anadolu Agency, on Tuesday published detailed information on the location of U.S. bases in northern Syria.
The base locations that were disclosed are on the front lines of the U.S.-led effort to take down the Islamic State stronghold and de facto capital in Raqqa, Syria.
For the safety of U.S. forces overseas, Military Times is not publishing the base locations.
Ten bases, including two with air strips, were identified in a map by Anadolu Agency’s English website. The Turkish version includes some troop counts and a detailed map of the U.S. armed forces’ presence….
According to a reporter of the Anadolu Agency, the locations and intel hadn’t been released by the Turkish government, but from reporters’ own eyes and from Kurdish social media posts. The reporter blames US cooperation with the Kurds.
Category: Terror War
I believe the Turks have joined the ranks of the frienemies we have so many of.
What’s the dominant religion of Turkey again?
Amish?
Don is incorrect.
It is either Enraged Episcopalian or Militant Methodist.
My mind forgets which one it is.
At least it’s not the Battling Baptists.
It’s the Orthodox Orthodontists.
I know, it’s the Amish Anarchists!
Erdogan is one evil motherfucker.
He will cause constant problems for the next few decades of his totalitarian regime.
I had two really good flying assignments in Turkey. A year on the Black Sea and another 15 months in the capital. Enjoyed my tours there and saw a lot of the country. Knew a lot of really good Turkish people then. You couldn’t pay me enough to go back now. regards, Alemaster
Drove past an unmarked Turkish fire base set up in the northern Iraqi mountains – nothing like being in a humvee with a .50 cal and stumbling upon a bunch of M60s and APCs. Assuming they were set up to keep the Kurds in check – they made no sign of recognizing us, just watched us through binos as we drove by. This was over ten years ago, could just imagine the climate nowadays.
Erdogan has been turning hard in the direction of Moslem fundamentalists for years… he sees the wind blowing in that direction and is trying to hold onto power better than the Shah did. Not exactly NATO friendly any more.
The moron thinks he is the new calyph!!
We are sorry, we did not mean to bomb your newspaper. The bomb must have been loose when we flew over.
AKA: The French Embassy Treatment.
I believe that was the Chinese embassy.
That was Kosovo. The 1986 raid in Libya had ordnance dropped on/near the French Embassy in Tripoli.
Thank you. I was 19 and knee deep in whiskey, weed, and women back in ’86. Things get fuzzier and fuzzier as the years go by.
@Silentium -Uhm Negative, Sgt K was correct when he commented that it was the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia.
Yeah, the French wouldn’t let our bombers fly through their airspace and one of our bombs blew the walls off their Embassy. Maybe that pilot might have been thinking “*OOPS!*, we’d have had better aim if we were more rested, THANKS for the extra air mileage, you snail-eating asswipes!”?
Let’s see, who has been more reliable and trustworthy, the Kurds, or that two-faced ratfuck Turks who have a vested interest in screwing the Kurds over?
Do you mean historically, or over the last few months, TOW?
Nevermind – no discernible difference.
Time to have an “accidental oops!” on some of those Turkish media centers. Late at night, of course, when no one is there.
Or it could be an InterService SpecOps exercise….just a quiet implosion to destroy equipment to nullify the threat, that’s all. Transmitters, generators, presses, that sort of thing.
“………who needs enemas.”
Apparently, the Turks do.
Maybe, they’ll accidentally have another “Earthquake” and then the rest of the western world will tell them to GFThemselves
Back in ’43, the Brits developed and deployed a munition capable of doing that. It’s just a matter of packing enough boom into a casing that plunges deep enough underground before it blows.
Thought of this today with the earthquake on the Greek island of Kos… omeone missed.
Turks…Frenchmen who fuck goats.
No, those were Algerians. Different goats this time.
So basically, the Turkish media is fuck-all different than the NY Times.
Or ABC News.
Remember when retired Turkish veterans exposed active duty Turkish military supplying arms to ISIS and then were arrested for publicly disclosing it? Pepperidge Farm remembers…..
Turkey is no friend. Especially under Erdogan. Despite Trump’s fondness for dictatorial leaders.
You mean like Desalegn, the mullahs in Iran, Castro, el-Sisi, Hun Sen, and Assad, among others.
Oh, fuck–that was Obama.
You may go play another game of Hide and Go Fuck Yourself again, Lars.
HWY Babbles McButthead, I see you have your head locked and loaded with your perfessers’ propaganda and you JUST HAVE TO regurgitate it as much as you can as you come here to regurgitate it thinking it might actually impress or convince someone. Take a look at yourself and see how you’ve allowed yourself to be so thoroughly brainwashed into a total mental and intellectual OBLIVION!
Just tell Hillary that those Turk newsfolks are about to do a reveal on her. They’ll all commit suicide in the next week. Problem solved.