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| The Grand Turk |
| Erdogan spokesman calls for new anti-Daesh strategy |
| 2016-04-10 |
| [AA.TR] Turkish presidential front man Ibrahim Kalin has called for a new approach in the anti-ISIS strategy, which would enable Muslim and Western countries to work together. Addressing the conference titled "Rethinking Violent Extremism in the MENA Region" in Istanbul Saturday, Kalin said: "The current strategy, which has focused primarily on ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Europe and the U.S." Kalin said the war in Syria feeds ISIS and other terrorist groups. "The longer we let this war continue, the deadlier ISIS terrorism will become. ISIS reached its current level of network and impact primarily because of the war in Syria and Iraq," he said. According to Kalin, there are no good or bad terrorists. "Regardless of ethnic, religious or political motives, terrorism is terrorism everywhere. It is neither logical nor moral to treat ISIS as a terrorist organization that struck in Gay Paree and Brussels, but not the PKK that struck in Ankara twice over the last two months," he said. He highlighted that PKK terrorism could not be justified in the name of fighting against ISIS in Syria. "As the recent Ankara and Istanbul attacks show, ISIS and the PKK, although coming from opposite ideological-political backgrounds, are united in their terrorism directed at Turkey," Kalin said. ISIS has been linked to a number of other suicide kabooms in Turkey. In addition to the Jan. 12 Sultanahmet blast that claimed the lives of 12 German tourists, the group also carried out the March 19 attack in Istanbul, which killed three Israelis and an Iranian. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 a new strategy would start with recognition of an independent Kurdish State then that State could be sent arms to defend itself from ISIS then we could loosen the ROE that prevent more effective destruction of ISIS by the US lots more would fall into place after those biggies |
| Posted by: lord garth 2016-04-10 08:20 |
| #1 Let me guess "kill more Kurds"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-04-10 06:36 |