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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey says Obama shares Syria concerns with Erdogan, affirms support |
| 2016-02-20 |
| [REUTERS] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's presidency said U.S. President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... had shared his concerns over the Syrian conflict and promised his support on Friday, hours after a tense exchange 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 over the role of Kurdish myrmidons. In a phone conversation that lasted one hour and twenty minutes, Ankara said Obama had told his counterpart President Tayyip Erdogan that Turkey had a right to self defense, and expressed worries over advances by Syrian Kurdish militias near Turkey's border. Washington did not immediately comment on the call, beyond saying Obama has given his condolences over Wednesday's bombing in the Turkish capital.. Earlier on Friday, Erdogan had said U.S.-supplied weapons had been used against civilians by a Syrian Kurdish militia group that Ankara blames for the deadly suicide kaboom this week. The State Department, which sees the Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters as useful allies against 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.... , said the United States had "not provided any weapons of any kind" to the group. The issue risks driving a wedge between the NATO allies at a critical point in Syria's civil war, as the United States pursues intensive talks with Syria's ally Russia to bring about a 'cessation of hostilities'. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Well, the Kurds do want to be on good terms with America. Thus, O needs to screw them over as he has other traditional American 'allies'. BTW, when is he scheduled to be in Cuba? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-02-20 08:24 |