Congress approves sale of attack helicopters to Turkey
Congress has approved the sale of three attack helicopters to Turkey for use in their ongoing war against PKK liberation fighters. The attack helicopters manufactured by Textron Inc. (TXT) unit Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. will be used to combat the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, starting as soon as June, according to the Istanbul-based newspaper.I think more Israelis would view the Turkish government as a terrorist organization than the PKK.
The U.S. Congress approved the sale amid pressure from Armenian and pro-Israel lobbies to block arms sales to Turkey following an earlier decision to station unmanned Predator aircraft at an American base in Incirlik, in the country’s south, the Star said.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked U.S. President Barack Obama during a Sept. 20 meeting in New York to use Predators and share intelligence to track the PKK. Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union list the PKK as a terrorist organization.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, PKK, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, SuperCobra helicopters, Turkey
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:43 AM
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"Once a sunni muzlim, always a sunni muzlim!" Hussein Obama.
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