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Turkey says military solution for Syria’s Idlib would be a disaster
[ARABNEWS] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s foreign minister said on Friday it would be disastrous to seek a military solution in the northern Syrian region of Idlib, a rebel-held enclave which the Syrian government says it aims to recapture. Idlib is a refuge for civilians and rebels displaced from other areas of Syria as well as for powerful Death Eater forces. It has been hit by a wave of air strikes and shelling this month in a possible prelude to a full-scale government offensive. Turkey has backed some rebel groups in the region and set up a dozen military observation posts. It is trying to avert an attack by forces loyal to Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Leveler of Latakia... , who is backed by Moscow. "A military solution here would be a disaster, not just for the Idlib region, but a disaster in terms of Syria’s future," Mevlut Cavusoglu told a news conference in Moscow with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. The two ministers met in Ankara 10 days ago and Cavusoglu then gave a similar message, saying it would be a "massacre" to bomb Idlib, even though there are gunnies there. "Where will some 3.5 million civilians go to?" Cavusoglu said on Friday. "It is important for all of us to neutralize these radical groups," he said. "But we have to distinguish the civilians from the terrorist groups." Idlib is controlled by an array of krazed killer groups, with Sunni Moslem gunnies believed to be the dominant force there. Lavrov told the same news conference that tens of thousands of gunnies were trying to obstruct Turkey’s efforts to separate them from more moderate forces. He said further talks on Idlib would take place in Moscow later on Friday involving the two countries’ defense ministers and intelligence services. Russian President Vladimir Putin  ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. 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 him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...is expected to hold talks with Cavusoglu later on Friday. Posted by: Fred 2018-08-25 |
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