Turkey a priority for nominee to lead US forces in Europe

April 22, 2016

Army Gen. Curtis “Mike” Scaparrotti is the Obama administration’s choice as the next head of US European Command. U.S. President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the U.S. forces in Europe said Thursday that one of his priorities would be to deal with challenges facing Turkey. “You have an aggressive Russia that they’ve [Turks] encountered the escalation personally; counterterrorism; the ISIL threat; Syria and the refugee challenge” Gen. Scaparrotti told the Senate Armed Services Committee during a hearing on his nomination.

“It’s important that Turkey works hard to secure their borders; that they take part in the security operations that are ongoing to reduce the refugee flow” he said. “If confirmed, I will obviously make it one of my priorities to understand their challenges and what we can do to better help them in that regard.”

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