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Ankara’s ebbing dream in Afrin
[AlAhram] On 20 January, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
 launched military operations in Afrin, in Syria’s northwest, dubbed Operation Olive Branch. Ottoman Turkish forces entered the Kurdish militia-controlled Afrin enclave despite repeated calls by Washington for Ankara not to intervene. Turkey subsequently threatened to expand its operation to the Syrian town of Manbij, northeast of Aleppo, where US forces are deployed with the YPG (People’s Protection Units).

Erdogan ramped up his verbal assault 6 February, declaring he would be forced to "bury" them and warned that although "they tell us ’don’t come to Manbij,’" Turkey "will come to Manbij".
Posted by: trailing wife 2018-02-18
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