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The Grand Turk
Turkey, US to begin op for ISIL-free zone in Syria
2015-11-18
[Hurriyet] Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioglu confirmed to Hurriyet on Nov. 17 that NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
 allies Ankara and Washington have agreed to stage a "joint operation" along The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's border with Syria, with sources saying this is the start of a previously announced bid to establish an "ISIL-free zone."
"When will you start this?"
"We haven't actually set the date to plan things, you understand, but as soon as we do we will definitively be able to say when we will commence planning the details of the commencement."
Sinirlioglu was responding to a question on statements by U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
, who had said earlier in the day that the two countries would start an operation to complete the securing of the northern Syrian border, which has been used in the past by 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) krazed killers.

Military and diplomatic sources told Hurriyet that Kerry was referring to "a cleaning operation" to be conducted in a 98-kilometer long zone on the so-called "Mare-Jarablus line," underlining that the campaign would kick-off soon.
Precisely the time period referred to above.
As the U.S. and Turkey together provide "air protection," armed forces from the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
 (FSA) will launch an offensive against ISIL.
Of course the head of the Moslem Brotherhood (Turkey) prefers the Moslem Brotherhood (Syria) to all others. They don't seem to be all that effective against ISIS, however, unlike any of the Kurdish groups.
Officials stressed that the Turkish Armed Forces will not put boots on the ground, though action will be taken against ISIL elements along the Turkey-Syria border.

The Turkish military will hit ISIL targets in Syria by strikes launched from Turkish territory, they said.
However will they be able to spare the time when they have Kurds to go after?
"We are pressing the button for the 'ISIL-free zone' that was publicly mentioned earlier," a senior Turkish official speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
 told Hurriyet.

"Seventy-five percent of Syria's northern border has so far been shut down.
Really shut down, or apparently shut down?
And we are entering an operation with the Turks to shut off the remaining 98 kilometers," Kerry said in an interview with CNN earlier on Nov. 17.
If Senator Secretary of State Kerry negotiated it, we can be in no doubt as to how it will turn out. We've seen the Iran negotiations, after all.
. The United States and Turkey hope that by sweeping ISIL from the border zone they can deprive it of a smuggling route that has seen its ranks swell with imported muscle and its coffers boosted by illicit trade, Rooters said in a Nov. 17 report.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Vaporwar
Posted by: Shipman   2015-11-18 18:11  

#1  So, targets for Putin/Assad.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-11-18 09:18  

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