| Oh dear. Does Erdogan Padshah want his own Janissaries to do his fighting for him? The whole thing is awfully passive voice, suggesting the Turks have no interest in dirtying their hands in what is ultimately their own self defence. |
...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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
murderous Moslems who have seized swathes of Iraq and Syria.
Davutoglu said the safe zone should be established on a long stretch of territory along Turkey's more than 900 kilometer (660 mile) border with Syria, from Idlib in the west to Hasakah to the east and including the besieged town of Kobane.
"Safety zones can be established in areas which have seen a flow of refugees," Davutoglu told a briefing in Ankara. "These safe zones are humanitarian, not military," he said.
Asked about where the safe zone should be, he mentioned the main regions of northern Syria but cautioned against seeing it as a single continuous area.
"Where did the refugees come to Turkey from? Jarabulus, Kobane, Tel Abyad, Idlib and Hasakah," he said.
"But it's not limited to these cities. I tried to limit them to the areas from which refugees come."
Davutoglu dismissed maps seen in newspapers which portrayed the security zone as a continuous line stretching right along the Turkish border with Syria.
"They haven't been drawn by us or based on any diplomatic consultations," he said.
Some 200,000 Kurds have fled to Turkey to escape the onslaught on the key Syrian border town of Kobane by IS jihadists.
Turkey is separately hosting over 1.5 million Syrian refugees who fled the civil war between Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators...
and rebels seeking his ouster.
Davutoglu did not make clear if the safe zone should house just refugees from the Kobane region or also those who fled from elsewhere in Syria earlier in the conflict.