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Erdogan to Macron: Who are you to speak of mediation with terrorists?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A senior Ottoman Turkish official said on Friday that a French pledge to help stabilize a region of northern Syria controlled by Kurdish-dominated forces amounted to support for terrorism and could make La Belle France a "target of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
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French backing for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), dominated by the Kurdish YPG militia, has angered Ankara at a time when it is fighting the YPG in northern Syria and considers it a terrorist organization.

Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said La Belle France had taken a "completely wrong approach" on Syria, adding that he exchanged heated words with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, last week.

Ottoman Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said the French stance was setting Gay Paree on a collision course with Ankara.

"Those who enter into cooperation and solidarity with terror groups against Turkey...will, like the terrorists, become a target of Turkey," Bozdag wrote on Twitter. "We hope La Belle France does not take such an irrational step."

Ankara considers the YPG an extension of Kurdish bandidos bandidos krazed killers who have waged a decades-old insurgency in southeast Turkey. Its forces drove YPG fighters from the northwestern Syrian town of Afrin nearly two weeks ago and Erdogan says it is preparing to extend operations along hundreds of miles of border with Syria.

The Afrin operation has already drawn international criticism, notably from Macron, and Ankara’s pledge to extend it eastwards has also raised tensions with the United States which has 2,000 soldiers stationed in north Syria alongside the SDF.

All three countries - La Belle France, Turkey and the United States - are NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
 partners but the rift over Syria has increasingly strained relations.

"We have no intention to harm soldiers of allied nations, but we cannot allow hard boyz to roam freely (in northern Syria)," Erdogan said.
Posted by: Fred 2018-03-31
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