Obama Warns Turkish PM Pver Stance On Israel, Iran: Report

[Purveyor]

Source: Agence France-Presse

President Barack Obama has warned the Turkish prime minister that Ankara's position on Israel and Iran could lessen its chances of obtaining US weapons, a report said Monday.

The Turkish leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, wants to buy American drone aircraft to attack separatist Kurdish rebels after the US military withdraws from Iraq at the end of 2011, Britain's Financial Times newspaper reported.

The rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has bases in the mountains in the north of Iraq, near the Turkish border.

"The president has said to Erdogan that some of the actions that Turkey has taken have caused questions to be raised on the Hill (Congress)," a senior administration official was quoted as saying in the daily paper.

These questions centred on "whether we can have confidence in Turkey as an ally," said the official.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Obama_warns_Turkish_PM_over_stance__08162010.html

[JDPriestly]

1. I should hope that Obama follows through on this. Hope this is not just

hot air.

Erdogan is setting Turkey back in terms of its social development.

[harun]

2. Erdogan will stand up to Obama as he should. There's a new sherrif

in the Middle East and AIPAC isn't able to stop it.

[pjt7]

3. We can't afford to lose Turkey

if we are serious about a power place in the ME.

[bemildred]

4. Oh yeah, that'll work.

:eyes:

[amandabeech]

5. Problems with Turkey will probably be more important in our relationships with the ME

and followers of Islam in general than any comments Obama might make welcoming an Islamic community center to the general vicinity of the 9/11 site.

I would expect that many in the Middle East will see (or imagine) the hand of Isreal behind U.S. hesitation here. After all, the Isrealis and the Turks have hit a rough patch in their relationship.

[Hardrada]

6. I hope he tells Barack to STFU.

Some people wise up and quit being pawns and stooges for the Zionist States of America.