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Preview: Colleague Jonathan Schanzer reports that the prospective Turkish air force occupying Syrian airfields is a fresh concern. More later.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Preview: Colleague Jonathan Schanzer reports that the prospective Turkish air force occupying Syrian airfields is a fresh concern. More later.
1926 TURKEY AVIATION

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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

0:06.8

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain

0:13.0

that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching

0:18.7

their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

Not in the mood for miserable weather?

0:25.8

Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.

0:28.7

Sun Express, nonstop sunshine.

0:32.0

This is John Batchel.

0:34.9

Colleague Jonathan Shanzer, just back from the Middle East,

0:40.1

from Israel, the UAE, looking at the political and national security situation because they're all tied up together. However, Syria, the unoccupied,

0:48.3

ungoverned space of Syria, a failed state. It is appearing from news reports

0:54.5

that the Turkish Air Force is moving into bases,

0:58.7

former Syrian Air Force bases in central Syria.

1:02.8

The risk is enormous of conflict in all directions.

1:06.8

Jonathan outlines the beginning,

1:09.0

but this is a major concern in Jerusalem, a member of NATO,

1:13.4

a member of NATO that hosts the last time I was told nuclear weapons, and also under the spell

1:22.0

of a man, Erdogan, who is a neo-Arminist, who sponsored Al-Shara, the man who's camped at Damascus,

1:30.6

claiming to be president of Syria, is Johnson-Shancer to explicate at first the peril.

1:40.6

Much more of this later.

1:42.5

This is everyone's understanding right now john that the turks have

1:46.5

been planning uh to uh to populate these bases uh whether by drone or even their own manned aircraft

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