Breaking: 1,200 Turkish troops deployed in Mosul, Iraq

[Oublious]

''Peshmerga learned street fighting from Turkish military experts: commander
The training from Turkish military experts had significant impact on Kurdish fighters' capability, says senior Kurdish military official.

A key Kurdish peshmerga commander said they achieved to seize the nothern Iraqi town of Sinjar from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) after taking training and advices from Turkish military experts over “street fighting."

“The training that we received from Turkish military experts had a big impact on our victory in the offensive," General Kahraman Kemal, commander of the Kurdish Peshmerge Operation Unit, said in his interview with Turkey's Yeni Şafak newspaper.

“Their advice on how to use mortar bombs had a great impact on the Sinjar operation," he said. "Their advices over street fighting have particularly played a decisive role in the clashes that the 7th peshmerge unit have been involved in the central areas of Sinjar."

Kemal said the training program is still ongoing in the military camp on the outskirts of Arbil for peshmerga to improve their ability to fight. “Turkish officers have tried to do everything so that the peshmerga will have a stronger fighting force."

The commander renewed his call for an increase in the number of Turkish officers sent on training missions. “We have requested Turkey to provide training to more peshmerga forces so that we can expand our military experience. We want more Turkish officers to be sent to give military training."

He also admitted that Kurdish peshmerga gained serious capability in the art of war and military tactics during these training programs. “Due to lack of sufficient experience, we were suffering a large number of losses at the begining of the battle with ISIL. But we are now able to get involved in street fighting and subdue ISIL militants more easily with the help of Turkish officers' trainings," he said.

The recapture of Sinjar comes as another major blow to ISIL.''

The difference between qaasim souleymani and real experts.

 

[Ceylal]

Good. Finish those ISIS rats from that part of the world.

Set back from Iranis, Russians and Indian online trolls.

The same can be said about the Sauds "leches culs" [@ss lickers"], but here we are witnessing a dangerous game that Ergodan is playing. He is biting more he can chew..

 

[mike2000 is back]

Is Turkey okay with Iraqi Kurds?

The surprising thing here is that YES Turkey has very good relations with Iraqi Kurds and even with the pershamegas.
Turkey's stance towards the Kurds in Iraq is very different from Kurds in Turkey. Since when the government of Sunni Turkey fell out with its Shia-led counterpart in Baghdad, the Kurds of northern Iraq were a crucial ally.Plus, energy became key to the relationship between Ankara and the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan. Turkey needs the oil produced there, pumping around 120,000 barrels a day through a 600-mile long pipeline from Kirkuk to the southern Turkish port of Ceyhan.

You should know that the economic traffic is two-way, as Iraq is now the second biggest export market for Turkey, much of it to the Kurdistan regional government and even more a Turkish company built the new airport at Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.

So as always, economic advantage has subsumed ethnic division as Turkey's relationship with the Iraqi Kurds blossoms.
That's why you see Ankara has decided that it's the Kurdish fighters from Iraq who can enter Syria to join the militia, not those from Turkey. Kurds in Turkey are still seen through the prism of the PKK, while the Peshmerga in Iraq are part of a semi-autonomous state with which Turkey can do business with.

Moreover,trained and armed by Western powers like U.S,U.K,Germany, the Peshmerga are seen as a far more reliable, and less threatening, ally.@sinan, @xenon54 might agree with me.

However, i think Turkey's government is treading a delicate line - attempting to calm its core nationalist voters at home while bowing to pressure from Washington/London and Paris to help the Kurds in Syria battle Islamic State.
Following this, i think that perhaps by partnering/training and allowing Peshmerga to move into Syria and fight against ISIS, Tyrkey has struck a compromise that will help placate all sides in this conflict. A well balanced Geo political game as we often say.
I LOVE GEO POLITICS.

 

[xenon54 out]

The surprising thing here is that YES Turkey has very good relations with Iraqi Kurds and even with the pershamegas.
Turkey's stance towards the Kurds in Iraq is very different from Kurds in Turkey. Since when the government of Sunni Turkey fell out with its Shia-led counterpart in Baghdad, the Kurds of northern Iraq were a crucial ally.Plus, energy became key to the relationship between Ankara and the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan. Turkey needs the oil produced there, pumping around 120,000 barrels a day through a 600-mile long pipeline from Kirkuk to the southern Turkish port of Ceyhan.

You should know that the economic traffic is two-way, as Iraq is now the second biggest export market for Turkey, much of it to the Kurdistan regional government and even more a Turkish company built the new airport at Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.

So as always, economic advantage has subsumed ethnic division as Turkey's relationship with the Iraqi Kurds blossoms.
That's why you see Ankara has decided that it's the Kurdish fighters from Iraq who can enter Syria to join the militia, not those from Turkey. Kurds in Turkey are still seen through the prism of the PKK, while the Peshmerga in Iraq are part of a semi-autonomous state with which Turkey can do business with.

Moreover,trained and armed by Western powers like U.S,U.K,Germany, the Peshmerga are seen as a far more reliable, and less threatening, ally.@sinan, @xenon54 might agree with me.

However, i think Turkey's government is treading a delicate line - attempting to calm its core nationalist voters at home while bowing to pressure from Washington/London and Paris to help the Kurds in Syria battle Islamic State.
Following this, i think that perhaps by partnering/training and allowing Peshmerga to move into Syria and fight against ISIS, Tyrkey has struck a compromise that will help placate all sides in this conflict. A well balanced Geo political game as we often say.
I LOVE GEO POLITICS.

Agree but i have one thing to add, we have no problem with ordinary Kurds, just yesterday the locals in a eastern city called the police when they discovered a IED in a manhole set by pkk.
The problem are the pkk hiding in cities disguised as civilians.

 

[Oublious]

The surprising thing here is that YES Turkey has very good relations with Iraqi Kurds and even with the pershamegas.
Turkey's stance towards the Kurds in Iraq is very different from Kurds in Turkey. Since when the government of Sunni Turkey fell out with its Shia-led counterpart in Baghdad, the Kurds of northern Iraq were a crucial ally.Plus, energy became key to the relationship between Ankara and the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan. Turkey needs the oil produced there, pumping around 120,000 barrels a day through a 600-mile long pipeline from Kirkuk to the southern Turkish port of Ceyhan.

You should know that the economic traffic is two-way, as Iraq is now the second biggest export market for Turkey, much of it to the Kurdistan regional government and even more a Turkish company built the new airport at Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.

So as always, economic advantage has subsumed ethnic division as Turkey's relationship with the Iraqi Kurds blossoms.
That's why you see Ankara has decided that it's the Kurdish fighters from Iraq who can enter Syria to join the militia, not those from Turkey. Kurds in Turkey are still seen through the prism of the PKK, while the Peshmerga in Iraq are part of a semi-autonomous state with which Turkey can do business with.

Moreover,trained and armed by Western powers like U.S,U.K,Germany, the Peshmerga are seen as a far more reliable, and less threatening, ally.@sinan, @xenon54 might agree with me.

However, i think Turkey's government is treading a delicate line - attempting to calm its core nationalist voters at home while bowing to pressure from Washington/London and Paris to help the Kurds in Syria battle Islamic State.
Following this, i think that perhaps by partnering/training and allowing Peshmerga to move into Syria and fight against ISIS, Tyrkey has struck a compromise that will help placate all sides in this conflict. A well balanced Geo political game as we often say.
I LOVE GEO POLITICS.

Ther was a time that the Peshmerga wanted to join Turkey, our relationship is more then economical.

 

[Hack-Hook]

Sorry for my ignorance , whats the status of Turkey and Kurd relations . i thought Turkey labels Kurds as terrorists ! A little explanation will be helpful

well turkey consider Kurds as mountain Turks. guess no more explanation is needed.