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The Grand Turk

Turkish official rebuffs call for Idlib troop pullout

2017-10-16

[Al Jazeera] A Syrian government statement demanding ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish troops' withdrawal from the northwest city of Idlib is made to feed the domestic public opinion and should not be taken seriously, a senior MP with ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's ruling party has told Al Jazeera.

Damascus on Saturday urged "immediate and unconditional withdrawal" of ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish troops that have been deployed to Idlib to back the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA) fighters, who are implementing a "de-escalation zone" deal agreed by Moscow, Ankara and Tehran in September.

A Foreign Ministry statement carried on state media said the entry of ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish forces in Idlib "was a violation of international law and was not tied with the understandings that were reached between the guarantor states in the Astana process," referring to Russia, Turkey and Iran.

The Syrian statement was made "to save the government's face" in the eyes of the public there, Kani Torun, a senior MP and the deputy chair of the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish parliament's foreign affairs committee, said.

"At the end of the day, foreign troops have entered the Syrian land and this has to be explained to the Syrian public in one way or another."

Russia, Turkey and Iran have agreed in the Kazakh capital of Astana in September to set up de-escalation zones for six months in various parts of the country.

Posted by:Fred

#1 How long before the Turks join with the Iranians and Iraqis to wipe out the Kurds?

Posted by: AlanC 2017-10-16 08:40

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