[AA.TR] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
will remain resolute in its fight to clear all forms of terrorism from Syria's Manbij and al-Bab, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
said on Friday.
The Kurds ejected ISIS from Manbij. They were going to head for al-Bab next. The goals are Ottoman, not anti-terrorist.
Speaking during an inauguration ceremony in the southeastern province of Sanliurfa, Erdogan said that Turkey's ongoing operation to take control of the northern Syrian towns of al-Bab and Manbij from the terror organization continued.
Criticizing the U.S.-led coalition forces, the president said Turkey has been left to combat ISIS alone in the region, without any help of its allies.
"They started the djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
operation to put Turkey in trouble and decelerated it, and then they delayed the Raqqa operation. ISIS is there. You were saying ISIS was an element to fight against. Why don't you fight against the group?"
"They saw that Turkey was achieving results and then they changed their plans. We will not stop until we clear Manbij, al-Bab and other regions from terror," Erdogan said.
He said that Turkey would do everything necessary to "ensure that our brothers in Iraq and Syria have peace. If we have no [military] support, we will continue with our own means," he added.