Posted on 02/19/2018 2:31:59 PM PST by BenLurkin
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Russia’s Vladimir Putin that Damascus would face “consequences” if it struck a deal with the Kurds, CNN Turk reported on Monday.
Both Mr Bozdag and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu delivered a similar message later in the day. “If (the Syrian army) comes in to defend the YPG, then nothing and nobody can stop Turkish soldiers,” Mr Cavusoglu told reporters in Jordan.
Elsewhere in Syria, pro-government forces were also reported to be preparing a ground assault on the rebel-controlled Eastern Ghouta area, on the edge of Damascus.
Syrian activists said dozens of civilians had been killed over the past 24 hours in government attacks, in one of the deadliest days in the Eastern Ghouta since Syrian forces stepped up their campaign to retake it earlier this month.
On Monday Syrian state Sana news agency said “popular forces” would arrive in Afrin “to support its people’s stand against the Turkish regime’s attack”. A senior Kurdish official, Badran Jia Kurd, told Reuters news agency that government soldiers would deploy to some border positions.
But later YPG spokesman Nouri Mahmoud said: “There is no agreement. There is only a call from us for the Syrian army to come in and protect the borders.”
If a deal were to be struck, Turkish troops could find themselves confronting not only Kurdish fighters in Afrin, but the Syrian army too, correspondents say.
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Just when we were told this war was over. I give it all at least, 2-3 years more.
And I will support the Kurds.
Turkey is feeling mighty frisky.... threatened Greece , yesterday, the Kurds, and Syria......the leadership is mentally ill.
Fake news?
I don’t think Erdogan’s crazy.
He is ambitious.
Assad`s militia vanguard reinforcements enter Afrin today to roast Turkey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A3pDvfNtRoAfrin
You are a couple of days behind the curve. The Kurds and Syrians cut a deal over the weekend. They are on the same side until they can take care of the Turkish invaders. And yes, that puts them on the same side as their sworn enemies the Iranians, except where they are fighting each other.
http://www.dw.com/en/syrian-army-to-help-kurdish-forces-repel-turkish-offensive-in-afrin-reports/a-42638366
Know the Syrian government and the Kurds are united in the fight against Isis, al-qaida, and turkey. They decided during the war against Isis that the Syrian government was much better friends to them then terrorist who would replace the Syrian government.
I would never want to see the destruction of so many innocent lives but Justice would be so greatly served if Syria War 2 bomb the ever-living hell out of Istanbul and Ankara
Were to. Not war 2.
Turkey starts a dust-up with Russian forces on Syrian soil, NATO is not obliged to back up Erdogan.
Quick moving news. Thanks!
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