[ April 19, 2024 ]
Republican Senator James Lankford is 100 percent correct. One of the world’s most brutal rulers should not be in possession of the world’s most advanced fighter jet. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used his already formidable military to ruthlessly butcher Kurdish villagers in his native Turkey. He has used his air force to harass and bully neighboring Greece and Cyprus. In March, 2018, Erdogan called for an “army of Islam” to attack Israel. Erdogan also provides military support to Hamas.
In addition, Erdogan has indicated that he will purchase the Russian S-400 air defense system. This is a total violation of NATO policy. What is the point of NATO if its members can collaborate with the Russian military? Recently, American pastor Andrew Bunson was jailed in Turkey on charges of colluding with terrorist groups. Oh really? If convicted (which is likely), this poor pastor will be sent to a Turkish hellhole for a long time. Call your Senators and demand that they support Senator Lankford’s effort to stop the butcher Erdogan from receiving the F-35 fighter jets.
“Senators aim to block F-35 sales to Turkey in defense bill,” by Travis J. Tritten, Washington Examiner, June 7, 2018:
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Three senators are aiming to block F-35 joint strike fighter jet sales to Turkey as part of the annual defense policy bill now poised for a vote in the Senate.
An amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act filed by Sens. Thom Tillis, Jeanne Shaheen, and James Lankford would take a harder approach toward Ankara than current House and Senate language, which require Pentagon reports that could delay sales.
The senators are proposing a prohibition on sales of the high-tech fighters and associated hardware unless President Trump certifies that Turkey is not threatening NATO, buying defense equipment from Russia, or detaining U.S. citizens….
Turkey wants to buy 100 of the aircraft, which are made by Lockheed Martin, and plans to also participate in production and sustainment of the aircraft and its engines.
U.S. lawmakers have slammed the NATO ally and its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for seeking to buy the S-400 Triumf air defense system from Russia despite sanctions on such sales.
Turkey has also increased tensions due to its 2016 detention of pastor Andrew Brunson on charges of colluding with terrorist groups.
A group of 66 senators including Tillis, Shaheen and Lankford wrote a letter to Erdogan in April calling the charges against the pastor an “absurd collection of anonymous accusations, flights of fantasy, and random character assassination.”…
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69 Comments
5 years ago
Stop this sale NOW… The would be sultan should get spad 13s not f-35s
5 years ago
Reply to
Kuffar
Agree. Left/Liberal and jihadis think the same.
Turkey govt allows organ harvest of prisoners and orphaned children killing them in the process http://tinyurl.com/mfpzzl8
And this country is NATO member ! Left/liberals are ok with organ harvesting by killing babies too !
5 years ago
Reply to
chris VN
With help from their spineless Left/Lib friends like Merkle , Macroni and other nutjobs in EU!
5 years ago
Reply to
chris VN
To be part of the EU, you must not allow capital punishment. So this should be interesting as Turkey goes hard line Islam. Capital punishment from the Muslim perspective is an aphrodisiac.
5 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
Right. That Perdogan will be sharing our F-35’s with his new friends, Russians.
5 years ago
Reply to
Kuffar
Did you see THIS?
Show Us the Money:
IRAN Demands EU Compensation
to Stay in Nuclear Deal
Then again, the EU might do it!
They are paying Turkey.
Turkey demands more money
to help EU tackle migrant crisis
(it’s blackmail)
http://www.sfexaminer.com/turkey-demands-money-help-eu-tackle-migrant-crisis/
Hmmmm….
EU ‘running out of money’
to stop migrants travelling from Africa
Fund used to pay African countries to deter migration to Europe needs emergency injection of cash, officials say.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/20/eu-running-out-of-money-stop-migrants-travelling-africa
What happens when the EU stops making blackmail payments? It will be a take over. Islam wins either way. They keep taking in Muslims while paying to stem the rate of the invasion. I can’t believe the EU is so insane. I just hope this blows up while Trump is President and we crack down here more on ISLAM.
5 years ago
Any reaction from, Bwitch, I mean Mitch O’Connell?
5 years ago
This POS provides aid to ISIS, imprisons anyone who doesn’t support THE Ottoman empire.
5 years ago
Isn’t Turkey having financial difficulties,account deficit of 7.1 bil.? Where’s $ to buy aircraft?
5 years ago
Reply to
robert v g
Turkey is blackmailing Germany to not have Muslims over run their country so I guess they have money again. How much? Who knows!
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Worryingly true. Merkel is not just enabling the muslim Hijra but now funding the Jihad.
This must be stopped.
Shout your concerns at your congressman and the president.
This move would be a catastrophic mistake!
5 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
It’e terrible what is going on.
We DO call our swamp rep..
They have a staffer answer the phone and write down our wrath. They I ask them to read it back. They do. Probably when I hang up they throw it in the trash can.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
If enough people do as you do they can’t help but take notice of the mood of the voters.
Whether they act upon it is entirely another question but we can only hope so.
5 years ago
I thought Trump was at war with ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ Well Turkey has reverted to a terrorist state run by a Muslim Hitler who has threatened war against European nations.
It’s insane to arm radical muslim states with the best high tech weaponry we have which will no doubt be used against innocent non-Muslims and to advance their jihad.
This would be like Israel giving nukes to Iran or Hamas. Stop all aid and military sales of weapons to all muslim countries, period, we are in a global war against Islam.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rick Reynolds
Presumably there is a remote kill switch or even better remote eject pilot and return plane to friendly air base switch.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rick Reynolds
You do know this deal was agreed to during the last administration?
5 years ago
Reply to
WM1
Obama wanted MUSLIMS to have the upper hand with technology and military equipment.
Quotes By Barack Obama about Islam and Mohammed
1. “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam”
2. “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer”
3. “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country.”
4. “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.”
5. “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”
6. “Islam has always been part of America”
7. “We will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities”
8. “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”
9. “I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam.”
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Obama was/is just like his daddy, the devil, who was a liar from the beginning and the father of lies…
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
@felix1999: “9.I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with islam.'” We may not be at war with them, but they are certainly at war with us…and everyone else they want to make war on…
5 years ago
Reply to
Rick Reynolds
I thought Trump was at war with ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’
He is but this happened under Obama. We also have the stumbling block of freedom of religion here. If Jeff Sessions would stop defending our corrupt DOJ, CIA, FBI etc maybe he could look into Islam.
I didn’t like Trump having an Iftar dinner but it was ONLY for foreign diplomats of Muslim majority countries. Not one Muslim from the U.S. was invited. Naturally Muslims in the U.S. boycotted the event even thought they were not invited to it. Trump is pitting Muslim country against Muslim country. Saudi Arabia doesn’t like Iran. Iran just admitted to funding 9/11. So I guess we need to be surfacy friends with some of them for a united front for the time that can happen… Islam is a problem…
Trump revives annual Iftar dinner tradition,
but snubs American Muslims
Two-decade-old White House event was cancelled in 2017; this year, it’s just for foreign diplomats
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-iftar-dinner-white-house-boycott-muslims-not-invited-1.4694348
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
In hosting an Iftar dinner Trump has pandered to muslums — no amount of spin is going to change that fact.
5 years ago
Turkish President Erdogan, like so many other Islamists, is reality impaired. In November of 2014 he declared that the Apollo missions – the US moon-landings – were hoaxes. Addressing a global warming meeting in Izmir, Erdogan said the USA must finally admit that astronauts never landed on the moon and the landing was staged in Hollywood.
This utterly ridiculous story seems to have sucked in numerous trolls, conspiracy whackos and ignoramuses to join the NASA and America bashing.
Another Erdogan delusion is that Muslim explorers preceded Christopher Columbus in the discovery of the Americas by more than 300 years. “Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Muslims discovered America in 1178, not Christopher Columbus.”
Clearly, Erdogan is a dangerous loon.
5 years ago
Reply to
Daniel FX Dravot
I am so sick of these liars. Magical horses flying around Jerusalem…right. Cultist morons.
5 years ago
I used to know a Korean Christian, he said his pastor and one of this sons went to Turkey to preach the gospel and were never heard from again and the Turkish authorities didn’t give a tinker’s damn.
5 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
That is very sad. I wonder how many others were murdered by them. I suspect there are many faceless heroes out there that we may never hear about.
5 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Islam…it’s who they are, so it’s what they do. Not surprised at all. Pastor Brunson’s unjust imprisonment, alone, should disqualify them from the purchase-along with their planning to raise an Islamic army against Israel. We are either pro-Israel or we aren’t.
5 years ago
This plane will be in the hands of Russians and Chinese 24 hours after it arrives in Turkey.
5 years ago
“The senators are proposing a prohibition on sales of the high-tech
fighters and associated hardware unless President Trump certifies that
Turkey is not threatening NATO, buying defense equipment from Russia, or
detaining U.S. citizens….” No, detaining of U.S. citizens is only for the U.S., under the N.D.A.A.
That’s ok. If Turkey can’t get the fighters straight from the U.S., they’ll buy them through one or two intermediaries who will buy them for them. And in two or twenty years, when the U.S. is in an air war with Turkey, we can go up against our own weaponry. Oh, how great that will be….
5 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Turkey will get them from France if we stop them here.
Turkey should be stopped from the sale of our planes etc..
5 years ago
Well, who wanted to give this moslem pig the F-35 ?
Was it hosanna O’Bama the magnificent ?
Who approved this deal ?
It was not President Trump !
Up your ass
Schmuck Chomper !
5 years ago
Turkey is no longer truly our ally, why must we be supporting them still?
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
They never were an “ally”. FFS, the Turks invaded, annexed and ethnically cleansed 40% of Cyprus in the 1970’s while the dying atheist West sat on its hands. In the 1950’s the Turkish state sponsored the Istanbul pogrom, which mostly targeted Greeks but also any unlucky Jews who were present. During the Korean War our Turkish “allies” engaged in the largest friendly firefight of the war w/ROK troops.
5 years ago
I can’t even believe this is on the table!! Surely, it must be a relic left over from the sodomite’s administration. That’s a BIG CLUE it should not be put there.
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
It’s from the Obama era. The swamp did nothing to stop it then. Will they do something now?
5 years ago
Erdogin is now the enemy . Throw him out of NATO sell him nothing. We may be fighting him soon. No jets of any kind to him.
5 years ago
Reply to
Buck
NATO haven’t the bottle to throw the Turks out. They are as weak as piss and should be disbanded as a defence organisation and we should start again.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
AGREE!!!! A zillion UP ARROWS!
NATO, the U.N., and the WTO are ALL corrupt beyond redemption.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Change is needed everywhere.
Hopefully it will happen soon but I won’t be holding my breath.
5 years ago
Reply to
Buck
What is this country doing in NATO in the first place and our ally to boot amazing .
5 years ago
Greetings!
Erdogan, the “antichrist” himself, does need any assistance, especially from “US”, to destroy his “enemies”! Any adversaries, potential antagonist or “assassin“ of Israel and the Israeli people is an enemy of America.
Regards
5 years ago
What’s next, giving them nuclear weapons? Oh, that’s right we already have some there and knowing Erdogan is a strong muslim supporter, he just might try to stop us from bringing them home with the aircrafts they were flown in on. Thanks Obama and Congress.
5 years ago
Reply to
William Wilhelm
Obama certainly caused allot of havoc – on purpose!
As we talk here, Ryan is cobbling together an AMNESTY bill that voters do NOT want as well as more VISAS etc.. He has nothing to lose. He’s leaving so it is one last FU to Trump on the way out the door.
Also note how FAST they are putting this AMNESTY bill together and a vote is expected next week! Since when did they create a bill and move so fast to vote and pass it? The bill being out totally defies the will of the VOTER. It makes BIG BUSINE$$ happy. Why they even have a KOCH brother as a staffer, no kidding, guiding them with what needs to be in the bill.
http://www.breitbart.com/2018-elections/2018/06/12/ryan-amnesty-vote-next-week/
The swamp wants TRUMP OUT! Whether it is through a phony Russian collusion thing or impeachment. If DEMS get control, they will try to impeach Trump. Impeachment is political. Passing bills like this deflates the GOP base for midterm voting. The GOPe doesn’t mind giving up the majority. Then the GOPe can go back to pretending they represent you as an underdog. Being in the majority exposes them for the traitors they really are.
5 years ago
Reply to
William Wilhelm
Yeah, Iran received 150 BILLION in cash from Obama to help develop nuclear weapons! His cash transfer was so THIRD WORLD and prevented a “snap back”. Yet we can’t seem to find the money for a WALL to protect OUR borders but the same people that approved his. Amazing! I have no proper words to state the depth of my disdain for the swamp.
5 years ago
Turkey is not an alley anymore thanks to Obama!
5 years ago
A licensed gun store would not knowingly sell a gun to a psychopath who openly threatens people’s lives so why is the USA considering selling such weaponry to this Mad man? If Trump allows this deal to go ahead then his last 2 mistakes will not be seen as just unwise but as something much more sinister.
Wake up Mr president the world is watching!
5 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
I have not heard of that situation.
Who was the mad man and what gun store was this?
A gun store does have legal discretion to not sell a gun even if they pass a background check. A link would be appreciated!
Just curious….
” If Trump allows this deal to go ahead then his last 2 mistakes will not be seen as just unwise but as something much more sinister.”
What “last two mistakes” are you talking about?
President Trump is wide awake! Unfortunately he is not a dictator. He has to work with the swamp. Issuing Executive Orders as Obama did, made it easy to undo them. Trump is trying to do it legislatively to make changes permanent.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Firstly. Are you at all serious! I wasn’t talking about any individual in particular buying a gun but a mad man. – Meaning – an obvious lunatic wiuld not be sold a gun from any credible store. Easy!
Secondly. Trumps first mistake was bombing Assad who was of no threat to our cause. And then just last week made the mistake of kicking many of us anti islamists in the teeth by calling Islam a peaceful world religion.
What is it that upsets you?
I’m a trump supporter and am looking forward to greeting him when he arrives in the UK but I’m not afraid to criticise and neither is he too big to be critiscised.
What’s the problem with that mate?
I’m curious.
5 years ago
As well as treasonous and suicidal…
5 years ago
If we sell fighters to Turkey we will simply be selling weapons to our enemy. Don’t do it!
5 years ago
Good. Stop all sales to the islamos. And kick the SLIME out of NATO.
5 years ago
No jets for goat bangers, let them use their flying carpets
5 years ago
It is a must that we don’t supply Turkey the F-35 fighter jets but also to kick-out Turkey from NATO! Erdogan is turning Turkey into a de facto islamist country!
5 years ago
Erdogen’s actions over the last year alone should get him kicked out of NATO. Why hasn’t the G7 stood up to him as they did Russia?
5 years ago
My senator is in the bag for islum and muslums. I doubt writing her would make any difference whatsoever except to add my name to the list of known islamofauxbs.
