Does Cultural Diversity And Past Conflicts Play An Essential Role In The Current State Of Turkey

The country of Turkey has a very rich history dating back over 4000 years dating back to 2000 B.C. beginning in central Asia and becoming an independent nation in the early 1920s; seas tightly nestle Turkey to the north and southwest, more importantly are the bordering countries to the southeast. The countries of concern as well as constant violent skirmishes both small and large scale are Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Today, these countries represent terror, forced religious beliefs and economic instability. The United States Army as well as joint forces operate daily within the country of Turkey employing ground support, civil infrastructure support, and strategically placed long range Air Defense Artillery Weapons. In the following discussion,

The diversity began prior to the formation of the country with Turkish historical diversity derived from the ancestral members of Turkey originating from the Great Hun Empire, the Uygur Empire, the Avar Empire, to name a major few of the many different parts of Asia cumulated under one nation (Turkish, 2017, pg. 1). Upon establishment of an independent nation under the rule of Mustafa Ataturk, democratic views replaced the ancient and most practiced Arabic traditions of the previous empires, ranging from common law rules, legal rights, education, and religion practices mirrored off western ideals (Turkish, 2017, pg. 1). Alone this laid the foundation for future conflict both within the country and in the predominantly Arabic structured neighboring states. Internal conflict throughout time has been demonstrated by the emergence of the Nationalist Movement Party, Kurdish Workers Party, and minority population of the Kurds within Turkey (Primoz, 2013, para. 3). Subsequently, this created an internal conflict that surged to the forefront of global alliances and spilt over into the integration of armed forces as an issue of concern. Consequently, overviewed, from military perspective it forecasted a portion of the operational environment to be noted, placed as fact and assumption that upon execution of any operations; the U.S. Army will have to

The 3RD Battalion, 2ND Air Defense Artillery unit plays a vital role in the war started against terror in coordination with the airspace allowed by Turkey government officials both political and military in 2003, within the north and central regions of the country (Pierpaoli, 2017, para. 3). It was not until 2015 that Turkey was forced to allow U.S. Operations to be permitted in through the southern Turkish Airbases (Pierpaoli, 2017, para. 6). In turn this allowed U.S. forces to operate with semi-diluted risks within the previous operational variables descripted above, by opening up larger more efficient routes for logistics and in-fills as well as ex-fills into the volatile areas of Iran, Syria, and Iraq. To be exact in further detail this action was a follow-up between previous political efforts by the then Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama in early 2009 to establish a means to cross into the borders swiftly; in order to work toward peace in the middle east as a collective joint force (Obama, 2009, para.