Mosul

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I understand how the Kurds feel, but the Turks are going to lose their shit over this.

Erdogans Turkey is the real enemy here. According to a leaked report of the German government, a major sponsor of islamist terrorist organisations. I hope this report has consequences. It's all over the German and Austrian news right now, but I didn't have the time to look up an international link.

QFT.

Erdogan is basically just an Islamist dictator at this point, constrained by the last vestiges of Turkey's ailing and disappearing democracy. It's pretty much a given that he's been quietly supporting extremist elements within Turkey's sphere of influence for years now, and it's probably why the US and other NATO allies were secretly hoping for the coup to oust him.

A failed state in the next 10 years cast out by the west. Erdogan hates Putin too, so maybe Turkey will become the next Iran? I feel desperately sorry for the secularists, some of whom I know.