Being reported today by "The Daily Star", a publication out of Lebanon.

"ANKARA: Turkey will refuse to allow a US-led coalition to attack jihadists in neighbouring Iraq and Syria from its air bases, nor will it take part in combat operations against militants, a government official told AFP Thursday.

" Turkey will not be involved in any armed operation but will entirely concentrate on humanitarian operations," the official said on condition of anonymity.

The decision echoes the country's refusal to allow the US to station 60,000 troops in Turkey in 2003 to invade Iraq from the north, which triggered a crisis between the two allies...

Turkey now sees itself a victim of ISIS with Islamist militants holding 49 Turks hostage, including diplomats and children, abducted from the Turkish consulate in Mosul in Iraq on June 11.

Ankara is therefore reluctant to take a stronger role in the coalition against ISIS militants in apparent fear of aggravating the hostage situation.

"Our hands and arms are tied because of the hostages," the official told AFP.

Turkey can open Incirlik Air Base in the south for logistical and humanitarian operations in any US-led operation, according to the official who stressed that the base would not be used for lethal air strikes.

" Turkey will not take part in any combat mission, nor supply weapons," he said."

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-...x#ixzz3D163uu2K

Gotta wonder if the reason for not participating is as stated or if the Ankara government is quietly in sympathy with ISIS. Though founded as a secular state Turkey's leadership has more and more voiced pro-Islamic sentiments of late. You also have to wonder how this decision will impact Generalissimo Obama's Grand Strategerie in the campaign against ISIS.