[Hurriyet Daily News] President Recep Tayyip Erdogan... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
vowed to prevent the establishment of a Kurdish state in northern Syria, while Iran warned
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
over military intervention into its neighbor.
"I am addressing the whole world: We will never allow a state to be formed in northern Syria, south of our border," Erdogan said at a Ramadan event organized by Turkish Red Islamic Thingy in Istanbul late June 26.
"We will keep up with our struggle whatever the cost is. They are trying to complete an operation to change the demographics of the region. We will not condone," he said.
Turkey's pro-government media outlets have recently been claiming that Syrian Kurdish fighters who fought ISIL engaged in "ethnic cleansing" targeting Syrian Turkmens.
Erdogan criticized those who supported the "#TerroristTurkey" hashtag on Twitter after 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....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) launched on June 25 its second offensive to capture Kobane, a Kurdish town near Syria's border with Turkey.
"If you have honor and pride, how can you label a country as terrorist although it hosts people who fled Kobane?" Erdogan asked, before slamming accusations that Ankara supported ISIL as "slander."