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Erdogan speaks with Trump, says Turkey has no issue with Kurds
[Al Jazeera] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... 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...
 and his American counterpart Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
 have spoken over phone on the fate of Kurdish fighters that has triggered a war of words between the two NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
 allies.

Erdogan told Trump during Monday's conversation that he has no problem with the Kurds in Syria and that Ankara is only seeking to fight gangs in the war-ravaged country which threaten its national security.

The Ottoman Turkish leader discussed the planned US troop withdrawal from Syria and the establishment of a secure zone in northern Syria free of gangs, a statement from the Ottoman Turkish presidency said.

Erdogan has taken a strong exception to the Trump administration's dictates on Kurdish fighters especially US concerns on the safety of its Kurdish allies, who helped Washington in its fight against the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS).

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement: "The president expressed the desire to work together to address The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's security concerns in northeast Syria while stressing the importance to the United States that Turkey does not mistreat the Kurds and other Syrian Democratic Forces with whom we have fought to defeat ISIS."

According to the White House, Joint Chiefs Chairman Joseph Dunford is set to meet with his Ottoman Turkish counterpart Yasar Guler on Tuesday for further consultations.


Posted by: Fred 2019-01-15
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