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August 12th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Special to WorldTribune.com
ANKARA — Turkey has disassociated itself from the U.S. war against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Officials said the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled out cooperation with the United States in the war against ISIL in northern Iraq. They said Ankara feared that ISIL would execute the 49 hostages seized from the Turkish consulate in Mosul in June 2014.
Turkish Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz
“We are not providing any kind of support,” Turkish Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz said.
In an address on Aug. 9, Yilmaz said the U.S. military was conducting air strikes on ISIL positions without Turkish help. He said the U.S. fighter-jets were stationed on naval warships in the Gulf.
“The United States, using its own means, with its military aircraft launched from warships [in the Gulf area], bombing ISIL positions that the United States sees as a threat,” Yilmaz said.
On Au g. 10, Kurdish forces were said to have recaptured two northern Iraqi towns near Irbil. The Kurdish operation was said to have been aided by Iraq Air Force strikes and supply missions.
Officials did not say whether Washington asked Ankara for help in the current U.S. military campaign in Iraq. They said the U.S. Air Force was not using its assets at the Turkish air base in Incirlik, a short distance from Iraq.
“Neither the United States nor the Iraqi government should conduct an operation that would put the lives of our citizens taken hostage in danger,” Erdogan said.
The Turkish daily Sabah said Erdogan relayed this message in two telephone conversations with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden. The newspaper said Biden sought information from Ankara on whether it would try to free the 49 hostages. Erdogan was said to have asked Biden to coordinate with Ankara any operation against ISIL in the area of Mosul.
“The health and fate of the hostages are far more important than anything else,” Mehmet Ali Sahin, deputy chairman of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party, said. “If the United States thinks that they can fix things by bombing the area now, it is impossible.”
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