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Syria Meltdown: Turkey Threatens Attacks on U.S.-Backed Kurds
BREITBART ^ | October 16, 2015 | John Hayward

Posted on 10/17/2015 8:46:22 AM PDT by McGruff

Turkey has grown increasingly vocal, and even belligerent, in criticizing the Kurds and U.S. military support for their cause in Syria and Iraq. The situation took a disturbing turn when Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu threatened to attack Kurdish fighters in Syria if they are found to be passing American weapons back to Kurdish insurgents in Syria.

As if Syria was not in enough of a military and diplomatic meltdown already, a NATO member is considering bombing the vital U.S. ally on the ground against ISIS while American planes and drones are flying missions out of a Turkish airbase.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: kurd; kurds; nato; syriawar; turkey; turkeykurds
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To: PghBaldy

Obama backs the Kurds? That is new to me, but I am not well and forgetting things.

I wondered the same thing.


21 posted on 10/17/2015 1:42:24 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: McGruff

This has been a bad year for Turkey.


22 posted on 10/17/2015 5:08:36 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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