...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
to launch an offensive on northern Syria.
The suspected
The attack comes following renewed calls by
...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. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...to launch an operation in northern Syria aimed at expelling Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara considers to be the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Another suspected
On Friday, an alleged
Ankara has carried out two major military operations against Kurdish forces in Syria since 2018, and Erdogan in recent months has threatened to carry out a new offensive in Manbij and Tal Rifaat in Syria's north. Kurdish forces said that they have taken the threats seriously and begun making preparations.
Turkey said on Thursday that its cross-border operations southward into Syria will continue.
A recent trilateral summit in Tehran did not give Erdogan the green light to carry out its offensive, with Iranian Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
calling Ankara's planned offensive "detrimental" to both Syria and Turkey and saying it "will not achieve the expected political results from the Syrian government."
French President Emmanuel Macron also opposed a potential northern Syria offensive by Turkey and supported Iran's stance against the attack in a Saturday phone call with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi, Iranian state media reported.