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Erdogan spokesman slams US military for backing Syrian Kurdish militia
[DAWN] Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's front man lashed out at the US military on Thursday after it re-tweeted a statement by a Kurdish-dominated alliance it backs in Syria saying it had no links to Kurdish faceless myrmidons fighting the Turkish state.The Syrian Democratic Forces, the main US partner on the ground in Syria in the fight against the holy warrior 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.... (IS) group, includes the powerful Kurdish YPG militia. ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... views the YPG as an extension of the PKK holy warrior group, which has waged a three-decade insurgency in Turkey and is considered a terrorist organization by Ankara, the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... "SDF confirms that it has no affiliation or ties to PKK," US Central Command said on Twitter, re-tweeting a statement by the SDF in which it said it was not part of the PKK and wanted a strong relationship with neighbours including Turkey. "Is this a joke or @CENTCOM has lost its senses?," Erdogan's front man, Ibrahim Kalin, replied. "Do you believe anyone will buy this? The US must stop trying to legitimize a terrorist group." US support for the YPG has been a major sticking point between Washington and Turkey, a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... ally and a member of the US-led coalition against IS. Posted by: Fred 2017-01-13 |
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