[OPINION] Turkey raising a new army against NATO

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[OPINION] Turkey raising a new army against NATO
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Abdullah Bozkurt

Against the backdrop of a dangerously expansionist and aggressive mood in Turkey with nationalist euphoria and religious zealotry reaching a new peak, the Islamist regime of President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan is planning to build an independent army to counter what it sees as an intervention by the West in general and the NATO alliance in particular.

That is what Erdoğan’s chief aide, Yiğit Bulut, told the audience in TV commentary aired on government broadcasting network TRT on Feb. 13, 2018. “In my opinion, the Aegean Army must be fortified with Russian and Chinese-made fighter jets because one day some NATO countries [read the United States] that provided arms worth $3 billion to the PKK [Kurdistan Workers’ Party] may very well consider attacking Turkey,” he said, stressing that a non-Western air force fleet would come in handy. He also claimed that one of the reasons Turkey has purchased Russian S-400 long-range missile batteries [at least on paper as of now] is attributed to such a contingency.

Read more at: https://www.turkishminute.com/2018/02/18/opinion-turkey-raising-a-new-army-against-nato/