{"id":901,"date":"2008-07-24T07:01:04","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T04:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=901"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:24:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:24:23","slug":"kurds-ask-for-us-bases-to-be-built-near-iran-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/07\/24\/kurds-ask-for-us-bases-to-be-built-near-iran-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurds ask for US bases to be built near Iran border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As part of a long-term security agreement with Iraq, US forces could be stationed in Kurdistan.<\/strong> [sic.]<\/p>\n<p>The Iraqi government and the head of northern Iraq&#8217;s regional Kurdish administration, Massoud Barzani, have suggested to military officials that US forces be permanently based in Kurdistan. [sic.]<\/p>\n<p>Mr Barzani has said a permanent US military presence in the Kurdistan region would defend Iraq from internal and external risks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On hearing the request, US Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama said it would be appropriate to redeploy US troops there in the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Obama is known to believe troops stationed in the Kurdistan [sic.] area are not in any great danger.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently no US airbases in Kurdistan, [sic.] although there are two Air Force facilities in neighbouring provinces.<\/p>\n<p>The US military has denied any intention of building a US air base, but Kurdish sources have said if the US military decides to establish a permanent presence it will be closer to the Iraqi-Iranian border.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/story.birminghamstar.com\/index.php\/ct\/9\/cid\/420d9e49bcaa69d0\/id\/385329\/cs\/1\/\">BirminghamStar.com<\/span>, <\/strong><small><strong>22nd July, 2008<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a long-term security agreement with Iraq, US forces could be stationed in Kurdistan. [sic.] The Iraqi government and the head of northern Iraq&#8217;s regional Kurdish administration, Massoud Barzani, have suggested to military officials that US forces be permanently based in Kurdistan. [sic.] Mr Barzani has said a permanent US military presence in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":643583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34],"tags":[1280,165],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iraq","category-usa","tag-pkk","tag-turkmen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}