...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
on Friday insisted Syrian regime forces should not be allowed in Manbij as US troops withdraw, as proposed by a US-backed Kurdish militia viewed as faceless myrmidons by Ankara.
The strategic northern city has been held by the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia since 2016 after they recaptured the territory from 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....
jihadists.
Turkey has repeatedly threatened to attack the YPG and said it would set up a "security zone" in northern Syria following a suggestion by Trump.
Last month, the YPG called on the regime to "assert control" over areas the militia was to withdraw from, including Manbij, to stop a "
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that the Syrian regime must take control of the country's north.
Turkey, which supports Syrian rebels and has called for Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
's ouster, has conducted two previous offensives in Syria against IS and the YPG in 2016 and 2018.
In March last year,
Turkey-US relations have been rocky in recent years over Washington's support to the YPG as well as the US failure to extradite a Pennsylvania-based Moslem preacher accused of ordering a failed coup in 2016.
Aksoy said
And one day before Cavusoglu's visit, a
Republican Senator
Lindsey Graham... the endangered South Carolina RINO, fellow maverick of Honest John McCain...
, a loyal Trump supporter, was in Turkey on Friday for meetings with
... 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...and Cavusoglu.