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Re:Facebook Said to Block Pages Critical of Muhammad to Avoi... by mda on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @09:02AM (#8953015)
" It's not a secret that Turkey is helping IS in the Kurdish regions" No this is again BS. Why would Turkey has any benefit from a bunch of murderers? BTW SA is not a Nato member you just can not put Turkey and SA in the same bucket.
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Re:Facebook Said to Block Pages Critical of Muhammad to Avoi... by toyg on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @10:41AM (#8953563)
> Why would Turkey has any benefit from a bunch of murderers?

Because they keep splitting Kurdish territory, weakening Kurdish positions that are instrumental if Kurds are ever to get full statehood -- which would would immediately result in claims over currently-Turkish territory as part of independent Kurdistan. Enemy of my enemy...

> BTW SA is not a Nato member

Not strictly-speaking, but in practice it's one of the staunchest US allies in the region, on par with Israel. The US built a lot of installations there in the last 20 years, then relinquished them to SA and proceeded to sell them Nato-grade weaponry. If shit started to fly with Putin tomorrow, Saudi Arabia would be on NATO's side, no question.

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