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Erdogan: Pro-regime groups in Afrin issue 'closed'
[AA.TR]  ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...on Tuesday said the issue of pro-regime terror groups in Syria's Afrin was "closed for now". Pro-regime groups earlier on Tuesday, who tried to enter Syria’s Afrin to support YPG/PKK-ISIS against ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s ongoing operation in the region, withdrew before reaching the city following a series of warning shots. Speaking at a joint news conference alongside his Macedonian counterpart Gjorge Ivanov in Ankara, Erdogan said there was a movement towards Afrin by Shia militias which were interrupted after they were shelled. "But then they were forced to go back after artillery shooting, this file is closed for now," he said. "Yesterday, we have already agreed on these issues in talks with [Vladimir] Putin and [Hassan] Rouhani," Erdogan said. "Unfortunately, you know, these kinds of terrorist organizations have [sometimes] taken wrong steps with the decisions on their own." On Monday, Erdogan talked to Russian President Vladimir Putin  ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani over Turkey’s ongoing operation, the fight against terrorist elements and the latest developments in Syria, particulary Afrin and Idlib. "It is impossible to give them [any terrorist organization] a chance [in Afrin]. They would pay a heavy price for it," he added. Posted by: Fred 2018-02-21 |
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