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Turkey cool toward Russia's regional anti-ISIL alliance
[Hurriyet Daily News] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... is not eager to embrace a recently-proposed Russian initiative to form a regional alliance to battle the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgic said any other plan regarding ISIL other than the ongoing international coalition effort is not on Turkey's agenda. Asked about the Russian proposal and the recent meeting between Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, Bilgic said Syrian issues were one of the topics with the Russian FM. "The international community already conducts a battle against Daesh [ISIL]. Turkey is part of an international coalition and provides concrete support to these efforts. Apart from that, we don't have any other methods or plan in our agenda concerning the struggle against Daesh," Bilgic said, speaking at a presser on Aug.7. Posted by: Fred 2015-08-08 |
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