On Friday
Turkish fighter jets attacked ISIS targets in Syria for the first time.
They also rounded up hundreds of suspects in
a coordinated crackdown.
The bombing
had been a major move by Turkey which was hesitant for a long time to follow
the US-led coalition.
According to
the acting Turkish Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish F-16 warplane
were based in Diyaebarik had attacked three IS targets with guided bombs at
dawn on Friday. It also attacked the
group headquarter and assembly point.
Nine ISIS fighters were killed and 12 injured.
Turkey is also
willing to led US-led coalition to use its Incirlik airbase and other airbase
in the south of the country to enable them to fly strikes against ISIS,
according to the foreign minister.
This
remarkable change of policy followed an attack on a Turkish soldier who was
killed and a suicide bombing which killed 12 people in the southern province of
Sunic which is as few miles from Syrian border.
It has not been
officially announced when the Inairlit would be available to the US but Turkish
media predicted it would August when the first allied attack will be flown from
the airbase.
Additional
airbases in the nearby cities of Diyarbak and Batman will be open to the planes
for emergencies.
A report
from the Turkish media that a deal was made including a no-fly zone in the
northern Syria, which Turkey demanded for a long time, was denied by the US.
This change
of Turkish policies could mean an attack on the Syria leader, Bashar al Assad,
which the US and the Syria rebels were hoping for.
That leaves
us with the question: “Why is the US so bent over backward to replace any
leader in the Middle East? It would be far wiser to join the President Assad’s forces
and destroy ISIS from that side. It would mean peace and not spreading the
crisis which could easily escalate now.
Why has the
US always to have their leader and country under the US control?
PM Davutoglu
confirmed on Friday that they detained around 300 people with suspected linked
ISIS and the Kurdish Worker Party (PKK) was just the beginning of a wider
operation.
It read: “The
state of the Turkish republic is adamant on fighting all terrorists without
distinction as it has always done, be it the terrorist organisation of Daesh
(ISIS), the terrorist organisation of the PKK or any other international
terrorist organisation.”
Late Friday night,
unconfirmed by Turkey, the Turkish media reported that warplanes had attacked
PKK camps in Northern Iraq.
Those air strikes
come as a deadly warning bringing Turkey into the Syria crisis.
Tension rises
not only in Turkey but across the world since also PM David Cameron of the UK
gave permission, without the MPs consent, to enter the crisis. It was discovered that RAF pilots flew bombing
raids under the US command. That action
of the Prime Minister brought the UK into the conflict of which the people were
and the majority of MPs voted against it but as always it will the people who
will get the revenge.
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