As Fighting Rages, Turkey’s Erdogan Rejects Any US Plan to Arm Syrian Kurds Battling ISIS

CNSNews ^ | October 19, 2014 | Patrick Goodenough

[jazusamo]

Despite these differences, administration officials have repeatedly underlined areas of agreement with Turkey, describing it as a committed and “very valued member” of the anti-ISIS coalition.

Anyone got a bridge for sale, 0bama and Kerry are buying.

[Mouton]

The title should have said they rejected a personal appeal by fundraiser in chief. Our community activist has as much creds with our “allies” as I do with Putin.

[JohnBrowdie]

where’s that reset button?

[jazusamo]

I believe if the truth were known 0bama and Erdogan are in perfect agreement about ISIS, they support them.

[Tupelo]

RE: As Fighting Rages, Turkey’s Erdogan Rejects Any US Plan to Arm Syrian Kurds Battling ISIS

Only with Obolo in the White Hut can Turkey reject or veto any US plan to arm the Syrian Kurds.

[PAR35]

A president with (guts) would tell Erdogan ‘Either you go after ISIS, or we arm the Kurds, and won’t ask questions about where some of the weapons end up’.

PKK are bad guys, but so is Erdogan’s crowd.

[LeoWindhorse]

erdogan needs to be assassinated

[jazusamo]

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[House Atreides]

“...The main Syrian Kurdish group defending the strategic border town of Kobani against an ISIS assault is the Democratic Union Party (PYD), a secularist organization...”
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The fact that it is Kurdish is enough to want Turkey to see those defenders destroyed. The fact that they are also “secularist” just adds to the Turkish Islamist Government’s hatred of them and is, IMHO, one of the reasons why the Obama regime (with its stash of Muslim Brotherhood connected individuals in the White House & administration) has been so INCREDIBLY SLOW to allow the American military to provide EFFECTIVE assistance to those Kurds.

[jazusamo]

I couldn’t agree more, and the MB associated people in the WH is criminal in my view.

[ConorMacNessa]

Bingo!

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Fungi]

Erdogan is a snake in the grass. He hates the Kurds and will not be a part of any US effort. Turkey has historically been called “ the sick man of Europe” because of its incalcitrance in behaving by anybody’s standards among many other problematic qualities. And to think it is a member of NATO is a joke. Turkey would be a problem in any conflict and now you see why—Erdogan for one.

[SunkenCiv]

State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf confirmed that a U.S. official had several days earlier held a first direct meeting with a PYD representative. Although the PKK is a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, Harf said its links to the PYD would not deter the U.S. from meeting with the Syrian Kurdish group. She also said the U.S. was not now arming the PYD, but declined to “rule anything in or out” in that regard. “The PYD is for us equal to the PKK,” Turkey’s Anadolu state news agency quoted Erdogan as saying on Sunday. “It is a terror organization. It would be wrong for the United States, with whom we are friends and allies in NATO, to talk openly and to expect us to say ‘yes’ to such a support to a terrorist organization,” he added. “It cannot expect such a thing from us and we cannot say ‘yes’ to such a thing either.”

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“It would be wrong for the United States, with whom we are friends and allies in NATO, to talk openly and to expect us to say ‘yes’ to such a support to a terrorist organization,”

Well, if you are our friends and allies, then commit to getting rid of ISIS and commit against Islamic extremism.

[grania]

Turkey will never get the Kurds back to coexistence with Turkey. The image of Turkish troops on a hill, watching ISIS attack Kobane, was just too much.

This reinforces one fact....we are on the wrong side, doing SaudiArabia and Turkeys dirty work to oust Assad.

[Gritty]

where’s that reset button?

Last time I saw it, Putin had it. But maybe in fit of humor he gave it to Iran?

[Mark17]

“It would be wrong for the United States, with whom we are friends and allies in NATO

I spent some time at Incirlik. I was never under the impression that the Turks were even friends, let alone allies. I thought the worst part of being in Turkey, was dealing with Turks.

[marron]

The Turks and the Arabs are proving that the Kurds are right to demand independence.

[SunkenCiv]

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• Anger as wounded Kurdish fighters die stranded at Turkish border
• Mideast crisis widens as Turkey bombs Kurdish militants
• 'We've reduced ISIS to just two pockets of hold-outs' boast Kurds after bloody fightback
• At least 70 ISIS bodies dropped off at Syrian hospital, opposition says
• Kurdish forces in Kobane repulse new attempt by Daesh
• Kerry: Iran deal isn't 'out of reach' (the delusions continue)
• Iran draws hard line on nukes (year of sanctions relief leads to dead end)
• Bennett Blasts Kerry's Comments Blaming Israel for Rise of ISIS
• Cambodian Genocide Denier Noam Chomsky Claims US Created ISIS
• PLO Supports Kerry Claim That 'Israeli Occupation' Behind ISIS
• Israeli Bedouin physician killed fighting for IS in Syria
• Biden says Turkish President Erdogan admitted ISIL mistake
• Turkish President Erdogan demands apology if Biden uttered ISIL remarks
• Biden continues to apologize; first Turkey, now UAE

[SunkenCiv]

whoops.

• 'No discrepancy' over Turkey's role in fight against Islamic State: Kerry
• US Officials Hold Talks With [Syrian Kurd] PYD In Paris
• Anger as wounded Kurdish fighters die stranded at Turkish border
• Mideast crisis widens as Turkey bombs Kurdish militants
• 'We've reduced ISIS to just two pockets of hold-outs' boast Kurds after bloody fightback
• At least 70 ISIS bodies dropped off at Syrian hospital, opposition says
• Kurdish forces in Kobane repulse new attempt by Daesh
• Kerry: Iran deal isn't 'out of reach' (the delusions continue)
• Iran draws hard line on nukes (year of sanctions relief leads to dead end)
• Bennett Blasts Kerry's Comments Blaming Israel for Rise of ISIS
• Cambodian Genocide Denier Noam Chomsky Claims US Created ISIS
• PLO Supports Kerry Claim That 'Israeli Occupation' Behind ISIS
• Israeli Bedouin physician killed fighting for IS in Syria
• Biden says Turkish President Erdogan admitted ISIL mistake
• Turkish President Erdogan demands apology if Biden uttered ISIL remarks
• Biden continues to apologize; first Turkey, now UAE