It is a little unnerving when another nation forms troop lines that (population wise) is almost equal to the US troop level in Iraq......Is Turkey going to pounce?
2007-07-10 11:44:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
That's the million dollar question. I hate to sound wishy washy, but it is a 50-50 chance they will do it. There are many reasons for and against Turkey to invade, but one of the biggest factors is that when you amass troops in those numbers, there is a sense of inevitability that almost forces them to be employed. Look at WWI, Desert Shield, the Second Iraq War, and numerous others. Usually countries don't mobilize like this just to bluff. So maybe it is a 60-40 chance in favor of invasion.
What a mess. You think Iraq is bad now, just wait.
2007-07-10 11:56:46 · answer #1 · answered by Chance20_m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turkey has been self serving for a long time now...Just like the way they grab Northern Cyprus...thinking there was oil in the east end of the Mediterranean Sea. Turkey will call the Regional Government in Northern Iraq (AKA the Iraqi Kurds) a terrorists state because they will be funneling guns and resources to their Kurdish Brothers in the Hills of Southern Turkey.
They will use that as a reason to invade and crush the Kurds worse than Saddam ever tried. While they are there...they will take the Northern Iraqi oil fields and turn Kirkuk into a Turkish Province...claiming that this was Turkish Land stemming from the Ottoman days.
Turkey is a member of NATO, so what is the US suppose to do. Nice Job George Bush...soon as you retire, the region where we depend on for oil and energy is about to become totally politically unstable. Just like in world war I, the Kings will lose their thrown in this region of the world and most likely be replaced with theocracies like IRAN or some military dictatorship like Saddam.
We need to get the hell off of OIL in a hurry...because that area is about to buffoon out.
2007-07-10 18:57:42 · answer #2 · answered by East Lansing Brat 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The could move the fence posts, the border markings with Iraq, in a few miles towards Baghdad and nobody would notice. Turkey would then become a larger country, that's good for their status in joining the E.U., and Iraq would become incrementally smaller, that's good for the U.S. troops.
Gradually, they could do this every Saturday night for the next couple of years until finally, all the extremists are rounded up into the last crappy gas station in Iraq.
At this point the rest of the world asks them for a refund.
2007-07-10 18:56:35 · answer #3 · answered by Lawrence E 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Turkey is just protecting itself from the Kurds. They want to come in and fight them, but being an ally of the US they have yet to. If the US does nothing to fix the problem of the Kurds crossing over there could be real problems.
2007-07-10 18:50:04 · answer #4 · answered by apple juice 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Turkey has been crossing Iraq's borders for some time now.
They want to prevent kurds from entering Turkey.
2007-07-10 18:47:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably a bit of both I would imagine, the Turk's have suffered for so long and still are suffering, they have every right to defend themselves from terrorists committing such horrible act's of violence on innocent folk's..
Go the young Turk's.
2007-07-10 18:56:51 · answer #6 · answered by ~Celtic~Saltire~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's just their border patrol.
2007-07-11 04:24:49 · answer #7 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋