: re: Strikes on Kurd Militias Elevate Tensions in Turkey

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From: barry levine
Date: Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:12 PM
Subject: re: Strikes on Kurd Militias Elevate Tensions in Turkey
To: "letters@nytimes.com"


To the Editor:
   Throughout the ColdWar, Turkey was a key U.S. ally, hosting our
airbases, peering into the Soviet Caucasus, sharing our peril through
the Missile Crisis. But this is the 21st century; the Soviet Union is
no more. If president Obama really believes as he has said that " it's
important to look forward and not backwards, and to remind ourselves
that we do have very real security threats out there" then he needs to
embrace and recognize and arm Kurdistan. It is the Kurds who are our
key allies in the fight against ISIS. If the Turks oppose them, they
oppose us.
Barry Haskell Levine


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/world/europe/heightened-tensions-in-turkey-after-strikes-on-kurdish-militants-in-iraq.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0