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| The Grand Turk |
| Erdogan: US would side with Turkey if Russia does wrong, including PYD |
| 2015-10-09 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Despite an apparent divide between the two NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... allies on the role of Kurdish militias fighting jihadists in Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... sounded confident that Washington would side with Ankara over any wrongdoing by Russia - including any possible controversy over Kurdish fighters in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's neighbor. "I don't believe that the U.S. and Russia could be entirely on the same line concerning an issue involving Turkey," Erdogan said, when reminded that both Russia and the U.S. stated they would support the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria in its fight against jihadists from 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). "Above all, Turkey is an ally of the U.S. and a member of NATO. So can you imagine that these two states [the U.S. and Russia] would be on the same line in any wrongdoing against Turkey? It's not possible," he said late on Oct. 6, speaking to journalists en route from Brussels to Tokyo. Both Erdogan and Turkish officials have recently been insisting that the PYD's role supporting the U.S.-led coalition against ISIL does not give the group legitimacy, after a U.S. official said Washington does not consider the People's Protection Units (YPG), the armed wing of the PYD, a terrorist organization. Ankara continues to stress that the PYD is a terrorist organization because of its close links with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has escalated attacks against Turkish security forces since July. "Everybody should know that the PYD and the PKK have nested [together]. Russia says 'If Iraq invites us, we can also launch air strikes against Daesh there.' But Russia isn't even hitting Daesh in Syria," Erdogan said, using an Arabic acronym for ISIL. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 He is not our son of a b*tch. But our military's get along. |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2015-10-09 14:22 |
| #2 He's a son of a bitch but now that he's in trouble with Putin he suddenly wants to remind us that he's our son of a bitch. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-10-09 12:47 |
| #1 "If you like your NATO, you can keep your NATO" Recep. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-10-09 05:02 |