Posted on 01/08/2016 1:25:42 PM PST by Trumpinator
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu accused the head of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition party of treason on Friday for using a trip to Moscow to condemn Ankara’s shooting down of a Russian warplane over Syria.
Selahattin Demirtas, co-head of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), met foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Wednesday and criticised Ankara for shooting down the warplane near the border with Syria last month. Moscow denies it had entered Turkish airspace.
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Why a Pro-Kurdish Russia Infuriates Turkey
Geopolitical Diary
December 23, 2015 | 00:12 GMT
On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will be welcoming Selahattin Demirtas, the leader of the Peoples' Democracy Party, Turkey's most important Kurdish political party. According to Demirtas — who announced the meeting on Saturday from the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, the main battleground for Turkish and Kurdish forces — the Peoples' Democracy Party will establish an office in Moscow. The politician claims he can do what Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cannot: mend Turkey's relationship with Russia. What is left unsaid, however, is that Demirtas wants to show Erdogan that the Kurds are a political force that cannot be sidestepped in elections or crushed in the streets. This meeting, the highest-level diplomatic encounter between Russia and Turkey since relations soured last month, comes after the Kremlin refused point blank to reconcile with Ankara.
Payback is acoming!
Just wait until the Kurds gets Javelins and manpads...
My dyslexia kicked in, and I thought it was about Mark Kirk.
I was having some fun with the title. Bored in an airport.
Saudi Arabia, Israel, Iraq, Syria, Kurdistan, Greece...
All lining up behind Putin.
Jordan will be next. Then Egypt.
Glad to see there are leaders that can work though problems without giving away the ranch and 150 BILLION.
Either way, there’s a turd involved.
Say that one three times fast...
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