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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey: US airdrops to Kurds 'wrong' |
| 2014-10-23 |
| [ARABNEWS] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on Wednesday criticized as "wrong" the airdrops of ammunition and weapons by US planes to Kurdish fighters battling holy warriors in the Syrian town of Kobani. He said the weapons had fallen into the hands of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) -- a Syrian Kurdish group that Ankara does not support -- and also 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS). "It has become clear that this was wrong," Erdogan told news hounds in Ankara airport before departing for a trip to Latvia and Estonia. US cargo planes earlier this week dropped ammunition, weapons and medical supplies to the Kurdish fighters who have been battling the IS for control of Kobani for over a month. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said at least one of the loads dropped had been picked up by the IS. A video purportedly showing this has surfaced online. But Erdogan indicated that Turkey was equally troubled by the weapons falling into the hands of the PYD, whose armed branch the People's Protection Units (YPG) has led the fight against the krazed killers. "Some of the airdrops have fallen into the hands of the PYD and ISIS," he said, using a different name for IS. "It's impossible to achieve results with such an operation," he added. "Any support you would give PYD would benefit the PKK. And as Turkey we need to fight against this," Erdogan added. Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco... the Syrian air force has destroyed two of the three seized jets reportedly test flown over Aleppo by the Islamic State group last week, according to the country's information minister. Omran Al-Zoubi told Syrian TV late Tuesday that Syrian aircraft bombed the jets as they were landing at Jarrah airbase in the eastern countryside of Aleppo province. He said the holy warriors were able to hide a third jet, which the Syrian air force is now searching for. Al-Zoubi described the aircraft as old and suggested they were no longer useful as military equipment. Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco... Kurdish officials and doctors said they believed Islamic State holy warriors had released some kind of toxic gas in a district in the eastern part of Kobani. Aysa Abdullah, a senior Kurdish official based in the town, said the attack took place late Tuesday, and that a number of people suffered symptoms that included dizziness and watery eyes. She and other officials said doctors in Kobani lacked the necessary equipment to determine the nature of the chemicals used. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Nothing stops Turkey from 'directly' addressing the ISIS issue which would remove the Kurds from the fight. It's obvious they want the ISIS to do the dirty work that would get them cut off finally from the West. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-10-23 21:24 |
| #4 Let us truck it across the border then? No, well, as said above: "FUCK OFF" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-10-23 17:25 |
| #3 "Wrong" here in it's meaning of "not what we want". |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-10-23 07:41 |
| #2 There's so much wrong with the world caused by the sclerotic conditions remaining from WWI, WWII and the cold-war. Turkey being in NATO is a case in point. Heck, NATO is a case in point as is the UN. We've got to clean out the arteries of the old institutions and invent new ones that fit the world today. Of course, considering the quality of "leadership" in the world today I hold out little hope for improvement. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-10-23 07:39 |
| #1 Hey Turkey, 2 words. The same ones you used on us when we wanted border access back in OIF: Fuck. You. Payback is a bitch. After ISIS get settled, I hope every one of the weapons finds its way into Turkey and is used against your soldiers who enforce your bigoted government. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-10-23 00:51 |