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The Grand Turk
Erdogan accuses US of arming Kurdish forces in Syria for free
2018-04-23
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish president claimed that roughly 5,000 trucks, all loaded with weaponry, were dispatched to northern Syria.

Speaking to the Ottoman Turkish NTV news channel on Saturday, Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
claimed that the US and its allies are refusing to sell weapons to Ankara while choosing to provide them to Kurdish forces and most notably, for free.

"We cannot buy weapons from the US with our money, but unfortunately, the US and coalition forces give these weapons, this ammunition, to terrorist organizations for free," he said. He reiterated that the threat predominantly originates from what he called "strategic partners."

Erdogan went on to say that Washington goes continues to arm holy warriors in Syria, sending in convoys full of weapons there. For instance, according to him, the US sent 5,000 trucks loaded with weapons to northern parts of the embattled country.

The US looks upon the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) as an ally in Syria, and to be more precise, a constituent part of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The SDF has allegedly been trained, equipped and monitored by the Americans.

Last December, 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...
approved providing $393 million worth of weapons to what Washington calls partners in Syria ‐ the YPG being one of them. Shortly thereafter, the US announced its intention to set up an all-Kurdish battalion comprising about 30,000 people, which was supposed to be deployed along the Ottoman Turkish border.

The move was met with the utmost fury by the Ottoman Turkish side, and on January 20, Ankara launched a military operation codenamed Olive Branch, tasked with ousting SDF troops from areas in northern Syria near the Ottoman Turkish border. Ankara recognizes the group to be affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is considered a terror organization by the US, the EU and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
Posted by:Fred

#8  About that covert supplying of ISIS certain parties in Turkey played.....
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-04-23 18:51  

#7  That would be secondary to keeping his grasp on power.
Posted by: gorb   2018-04-23 18:08  

#6  Recep, ole buddy, if you had not waged a Stalinist purge of your officer corps and stayed out of Kurdish Syria, you wouldn't be getting your butt handed to you on a platter.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2018-04-23 18:04  

#5  #2 got flushed.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-04-23 10:18  

#4  Well #2 up and vaporized.
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606   2018-04-23 08:13  

#3  Well #2, maybe deep state was hoping he would try the White House again, and not get so confused and end up at the Waffle House instead.
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606   2018-04-23 07:31  

#2  Indeed Charles. The YPG is a far more lethal and different Kurdish foe than the PKK or the Peshmerga.
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606   2018-04-23 07:17  

#1  Somebody is losing more armor then he's admitting.
Posted by: Charles   2018-04-23 04:47  

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