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Turkey rejects Russian claims, says hit only ISIL targets in Syria
[TODAYSZAMAN] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 has hit only radical terrorist 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions in Syria since the start of a cease-fire last weekend, the Turkish Foreign Ministry front man said on Wednesday, rejecting Russian claims of transporting weapons-loaded trucks into Syria.

Foreign Ministry front man Tanju Bilgic said at a briefing with news hounds in Ankara that Russian claims of weapons being sent to Syria hidden in aid convoys from Turkey are not to be taken seriously and were designed to cover Russian war crimes.

He also said Russian and the government forces have been carrying out bombardments since the truce began.

Moscow's Defense Ministry has said that four journalists were lightly injured along the Syria-Turkey border as a result of heavy artillery fire on Tuesday, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that journalists from China, Canada, Bulgaria and Russia were maimed in the village of Kinsibba, which was being shelled from the town of Bidama and elsewhere along Syria's border with Turkey. Kinsibba is under the control of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
 forces.

The ministry described the conditions of the maimed journalists as fair, according to the news agency. Shortly before, Syria's state news agency said several members of a group of foreign journalists were maimed by mortars fired from the Turkish side of the border and that the area targeted had recently been seized from rebel forces.

Turkey has been shelling the north of Syria near Azaz for the last few weeks, targeting the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing, the People's Protection Units (YPG), saying that it is a national security measure and Ankara will not let the terrorist PYD, which is an affiliate of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) cross the west of Euphrates River.

Russian Foreign Ministry front man Mikhail Bogdanov said Russia will raise recent Turkish shelling of Kurdish positions in Geneva during a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura.
Posted by: Fred 2016-03-03
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