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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Ankara offers new Raqqa plan to US excluding YPG
2017-04-16
[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Isik has paid a quick visit to Washington in order to propose a new plan over an operation to liberate Syria’s Raqqa from jihadists without making use of Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) forces.

Isik came to Washington on the grounds that Ankara’s message on the topic was not comprehended well enough by the new government after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit to Ankara two weeks ago.
If you shout louder it will help that stupid President Trump understand, Minister Isik. I hope you also brought a notarized list of the Gulenists embedded like ticks among America's politicians and bureaucrats. The president will be astonished.
Meeting U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis in Washington, Isik put forth a new plan for the liberation of Raqqa from 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 (ISIS) turbans that does not comprise the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its military wing, the YPG, both of which The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 regards as terrorist organizations due to their ties with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Not the president? Well, I imagine he was having a busy day.
Turkey and the U.S. are at odds over the designation of the YPG and PYD and despite Turkey’s efforts to designate the two groups as terrorists, the U.S. sees the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is mainly comprised of YPG forces, as effective partners on the ground in their fight against ISIS.

Speaking at a panel organized by the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research after his meeting with Mattis, Isik said the meeting was a "friendly negotiation."
In other words, our friend the Turkish defense minister did not get what he came for.
Posted by:Fred

#1  I would rather deal with the kurds and desinate the turk government the terrorist org.! Especially Erdrogan.
Posted by: chris   2017-04-16 09:00  

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