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| Erdogan vows to ‘save Turkey from the terror of PKK’ in Eid message |
| 2016-09-12 |
| [RUDAW.NET] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , in his Eid message, vowed to "save ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... from the terror" of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). "We are determined to save Turkey from the terror of the PKK, working hand in hand with our security forces and our brothers in the region. PKK, just like FETO, doesn't have the power to fight against the determination and strength of our nation," he said, comparing the PKK to the Gulen movement, which Turkey calls the Fethullah Terrorist Organization (FETO). Erdogan added that Kurdish parties in Syria, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed forces the Peoples Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara considers branches of the PKK, will suffer the same defeat. "The same ending is awaiting PKK branches in the region, such as the PYD and YPG," he said. "Finishing the organization called ISIS [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.... ] in Syria as well as disabling it in our country is our obligation to our people," the president continued. "Operation Euphrates Shield is the first step to the completion of this duty. Nobody can stop us to do whatever is needed to destroy these organizations, which are threatening the future of our nation, regardless of who might be backing them." Turkey launched its military operation Euphrates Shield in northern Syria at the end of August with the assistance of local militias fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA). The operation aims to clear ISIS from the Syria-Turkey border areas and to stop Kurdish forces from advancing west of the Euphrates River. |
| Posted by:Fred |