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The Grand Turk
Turkey "not intimidated" by Trump's "threats" by Syrian Kurds
2019-01-15
[ELUNIVERSAL] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
 said on Monday it was not "intimidated" by 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...
's "threats" to "devastate" the Ottoman Turkish economy in the event of Ankara's attack on Kurdish militias backed by Washington in Syria following the announced US withdrawal this country.

"We will not be intimidated by any threat, economic threats do not lead to anything," Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in reaction to Trump's warnings , AFP quoted.

This harsh warning from the White House tenant comes when Turkey has been threatening for several weeks to launch a new offensive against the People's Protection Units (YPG), a Kurdish gang that Ankara considers "terrorist" but which is supported by Washington. in its fight against the jihadist organization 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....
 (ISIS).

Trump warned on Sunday on Twitter that if this attack against the Kurdish forces occurred after the US withdrawal from Syria, the United States would "devastate Turkey economically."

However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
 the US president on the other hand made a call to the Kurds not to "provoke" Ankara.

"STRATEGIC ALLIES"
In addition to rejecting any "intimidation", the Ottoman Turkish minister, at a presser in Ankara, said that two "strategic allies should not talk on Twitter" and that "our (communication) channels are open."

The United States and Turkey are allies as member countries of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
. Cavusoglu added however that his country is not against a "security zone" between the Ottoman Turkish border and the positions in neighboring Syria of Syrian Kurdish fighters, an idea raised by Trump on Twitter.

The YPG constitute one of the main points of discord between Turkey and the United States. Indeed, the Ottoman Turkish government had assured this Monday that it would continue its fight against the Kurdish militia, despite the warnings of Trump.

Ottoman Turkish presidential front man Ibrahim Kalin said on Twitter that there was "no difference" between ISIS and the YPG militia and emphasized that he would continue to "fight against all of them."

Trump had announced in December that he would withdraw the 2,000 US troops deployed in Syria, raising concerns about the future of Syrian Kurdish fighters.

Turkey fears that the Syrian Kurds will try to create at the gates of their territory an embryo of Kurdish state capable of stoking the aspirations of the Kurdish separatists in Turkey.
Posted by:Fred

#1  "not intimidated"? Erdogan was almost immediately on the phone to Washington. In his conversation with the President he showed a willingness to downplay his usual mouthiness. He is aware that there are US military leaders aching to take the Ikhwan leader down a peg.
Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889   2019-01-15 07:20  

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