Tag: Turkey

Erdogan Threatens to Close US Incirlik Air Base if US Continue to Sanction Turkey – 21st Century Wire

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Erdogan Threatens to Close US Incirlik Air Base if US Continue to Sanction Turkey – 21st Century Wire
— Read on 21stcenturywire.com/2019/12/17/erdogan-threatens-to-close-us-incirlik-air-base-if-us-continue-to-sanction-turkey/

Incirlik Base is also one of six storage Cold War era sites housing US nuclear warheads for is European defense array, including some 90 nuclear warheads stationed in an area surrounded by terrorists militants being used by the US, Turkey and their allies to try and overthrow the government in Damascus.

Kushner allowed Saudis to arrest Khashoggi

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

US President Donald Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, apparently gave permission for Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman to arrest journalist Jamal Khashoggi before he was killed and dismembered, a report by Britain’s Daily Mail has claimed.

Furthermore, the anonymous whistle-blower who reported this also alleged that Turkish intelligence intercepted the relevant telephone call between Kushner and Bin Salman. This prompted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to use the information as leverage to force Trump to withdraw US troops from northern Syria this year.
— Read on www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191104-kushner-allowed-saudis-to-arrest-khashoggi/

Trump’s (Insane) Conflict of Interest on Turkey-Syria Policy

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

“I have a little conflict of interest ‘cause I have a major, major building in Istanbul,” Trump told Steve Bannon during a December 2015 interview on Breitbart’s radio show. “It’s a tremendously successful job. It’s called Trump Towers — two towers, instead of one, not the usual one, it’s two.”
— Read on nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/trump-turkey-kurds-syria-conflict-of-interest-istanbul-towers.html