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The Grand Turk
Bolton in Turkey to hammer out a deal for Syria's Kurds
2019-01-08
[Al Jazeera] US National Security Adviser John Bolton has arrived in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
to try to hammer out a deal for Kurdish fighters in Syria, as the United States prepares a military withdrawal from the country.

Bolton touched down in the Ottoman Turkish capital, Ankara, on Monday, and will be joined by US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford, having stated the US pullout is conditional on defeating 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), as well as Ottoman Turkish assurances on the security of the US's Kurdish militia allies.

President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's December 19 announcement of the withdrawal of 2,000 troops from Syria has heightened expectations that Turkey could launch a military operation targeting the People's Protection Units (YPG), which has spearheaded the US-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against ISIS.

"We don't think the Turks ought to undertake military action that's not fully coordinated with and agreed to by the United States," Bolton told news hounds in Jerusalem on Sunday.

He added Turkey must "meet the president's requirement that the Syrian opposition forces that have fought with us are not endangered.
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