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The Grand Turk
Syria conflict must not spark Russia-NATO crisis: Turkish PM
2015-10-08
[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Oct. 7 he does not want the conflict in Syria turning into a crisis between Russia and 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...
nor into a Russian-Turkish dispute.

But The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, a member of the alliance, will not compromise on the security of its borders or air space, Davutoglu said at a school opening in Istanbul in comments broadcast live by state TV. Russia has breached Turkish air space since launching air strikes in Syria last week.

Only two of Russia's 57 air strikes in Syria have hit 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 (ISIL), while the rest have been against the moderate opposition, the only forces fighting ISIL in northwestern Syria, Davutoglu also said.
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