Tuesday, June 30, 2015

: re: Turkey Uneasy as U.S. Support of Syrian Kurds Grows


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From: barry levine 
Date: Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 9:41 AM
Subject: re: Turkey Uneasy as U.S. Support of Syrian Kurds Grows
To: "letters@nytimes.com"


To the Editor:
   For years, the Kurds of Syria and Iraq have been America's staunchest allies. Erdogan's Turkey by contrast while profiting from American airbases at Batman and incirlik has refused to use those bases when we wanted them. So if Erdogan is angry, let him be angry. Turkey was a key ally against a Soviet Union that no longer exists.
       A free Kurdistan would give us airbases every bit as nice as Batman or Incirlik. And the Kurds don't shoot, imprison and torture their own citizens.
Barry Haskell Levine



http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/world/middleeast/turkey-uneasy-as-us-support-of-syrian-kurds-grows.html

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