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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Macron warns Turkey against ‘invasion’ of Syria
2018-02-01
Next step: a stiff diplomatic note on stiff notepaper, written with the black ink, not the blue.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview Wednesday that he would have a "real problem" with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
’s intervention against a Kurdish militia in Syria if it turned into an outright "invasion".

"If the operation became more than fighting a potential terrorist threat on the Ottoman Turkish border and turns out to be an invasion operation, we would have a real problem with that," Macron told Le Figaro daily.

The US and La Belle France have repeatedly expressed concern over Turkey’s 12-day cross-border offensive against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
last week threatened to expand.

Terror organization
Ankara views the YPG as a terror organization allied to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) inside Turkey but the US has been backing it as an ally in the fight against ISIS.

On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that if the operation turned into an "occupation" of parts of Syria, it would be "totally reprehensible".

His remarks came after Erdogan threatened to push further east along the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border, until there was "no terrorist on our border leading to Iraq". He also vowed to "clean up" the YPG-held city of Manbij east of Afrin, where the US has troops.

Macron said Turkey’s operation required Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and its allies to "have discussions and take decisions", without specifying what they might be.

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