{"id":55781,"date":"2014-10-13T12:02:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T16:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55781"},"modified":"2014-10-13T12:02:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T16:02:51","slug":"turks-ok-use-of-bases-oh-wait-nope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55781","title":{"rendered":"Turks OK use of bases&#8230;oh&#8230;wait&#8230;nope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55782\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55782\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/turk-tanks-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"Turkish army tanks roll past a portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk during a military parade in Ankara\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/turk-tanks-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/turk-tanks-500x295.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/turk-tanks.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning, Andy sent us <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/us-says-turkey-oks-bases-against-militants-185210066--politics.html\">a link to the news<\/a> that Turkey finally gave us permission to use our own bases there to launch attacks against ISIS\/ISIL\/Islamic State targets in Iraq and mostly Syria.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. officials confirmed Saturday that Ankara had agreed to train Syrian moderate forces on Turkish soil. A Turkish government official said Sunday that Turkey put the number at 4,000 opposition fighters and said they would be screened by Turkish intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Also Sunday, officials confirmed that Turkey agreed to let U.S. and coalition fighter aircraft launch operations against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria from Turkish bases, including Incirlik Air Base in the south. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who has been traveling in South America, has said the U.S. wanted access to the Turkish bases.<\/p>\n<p>The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss private talks between the Americans and Turks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe they were anonymous because they weren&#8217;t quite telling the truth. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Turkish official says there is no new agreement with the United States on using an air base in southern Turkey for operations against the militant group ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey and the United States are still negotiating the use of the Incirlik air base as well as Turkish demands for the creation of a no-fly zone and a safe haven for refugees, the government official told the Associated Press on Monday. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the issue publicly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, an anonymous source told me that everyone is FOS. The Turks need to get off their high horse and start spending some of the money that we&#8217;ve been giving them since the end of World War II and especially the money that we&#8217;ve been giving them to protect themselves since the Syrian Civil War began. And the Associated Press needs to start doing some of that journalism stuff and quit using anonymous sources to create news stories where none exist.<\/p>\n<p>And why TF is Hagel in South America? It&#8217;s like the only continent on the planet where nothing much is happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, Andy sent us a link to the news that Turkey finally gave us permission &hellip; <a title=\"Turks OK use of bases&#8230;oh&#8230;wait&#8230;nope\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55781\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turks OK use of bases&#8230;oh&#8230;wait&#8230;nope<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}