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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey's Cavusoglu demands removal of US envoy McGurk |
| 2017-05-19 |
| [Al Jazeera] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has called for the removal of the US diplomat coordinating an international coalition fighting the 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.... in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) group in Syria and Iraq, accusing him of backing Syrian Kurdish fighters. Ankara regards the Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units (YPG) as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) group, which has been fighting a decades-old armed campaign in southeast Turkey and is considered a "terrorist organization" by Turkey, the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Yet the US views the YPG, a central part of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as its main ally in the battle on the ground against ISIS. Earlier in May, US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... pledged to arm the group ahead of a planned attack on Raqqa, ISIS's self-proclaimed capital in Syria. |
| Posted by:Fred |