Posted on 10/13/2015 7:53:35 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Turkey has warned the United States and Russia it will not tolerate Kurdish territorial gains by Kurdish militia close to its frontiers in north-western Syria, two senior officials said.
"This is clear cut for us and there is no joking about it," one official said of the possibility of Syrian Kurdish militia crossing the Euphrates to extend control along Turkish borders from Iraq's Kurdistan region towards the Mediterranean coast.
Turkey fears advances by Kurdish YPG militia, backed by its PYD political wing, on the Syrian side of its 900 km (560-mile) border will fuel separatist ambitions among Kurds in its own southeastern territories. But Washington has supported YPG fighters as an effective force in combating Islamic State.
"The PYD has been getting closer with both the United States and Russia of late. We view the PYD as a terrorist group and we want all countries to consider the consequences of their cooperation," one of the Turkish officials said.
Turkey suspects Russia, which launched air strikes in Syria two weeks ago, has also been lending support to the YPG and PYD.
"With support from Russia, the PYD is trying to capture land between Jarablus and Azaz, going west of the Euphrates. We will never accept this," the official said.
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Perhaps the Rooskies couldn't get them to start?
:-)
Buckwheat won't supply them anything but SPAM!
If the supply lines to ISIS are “ hindered” Turkey may end up hosting some very unhappy campers who have got accustomed to weapons cash drugs and sex slaves not to mention being minor warlords of the towns they are now losing in battle
Don’t think for a moment that ISIS is anything but paid mercenaries
With thousands of these scumbags in its “ training camps” Turkey could end up having its very own “ arab Spring”
Reuters | Sat Jun 27, 2015
Turkey’s Erdogan says will ‘never allow’ Kurdish state: media
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Saturday as saying Turkey would never allow the formation of a Kurdish state embracing its south-east and parts of northern Syria, comments likely to anger Kurds as a peace process with Ankara stalls.
Turkey has looked askance as Syrian Kurds have made military advances against Islamic State militants in neighboring Syria, fearing that could lead to the creation of an autonomous Kurdish state there and further embolden Turkey’s own 14 million-strong Kurdish minority.
“We will never allow the establishment of a state in Syria’s north and our south. We will continue our fight in this regard no matter what it costs,” local media quoted Erdogan as saying during a dinner late on Friday.
“They want to complete the operation to change the demographic structure of the region. We will not turn a blind eye to this.”
(...)
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0P70QB20150627
It's pretty much accepted that Iraq should break up. But what about Turkey? How can they have any claim to being a country with their history and current actions of annihilating minorities?
And we have FIVE pubbie candidates that believe we should enforce a no fly zone to protect these freaks in turkey.
Snarly, murko, crispy creme, been carson and now gramnesty?
These muzzies in turkey are in nato and think we or anyone else must join them in their misadventures? NO.
Turkey has no standing as to where the Kurds are outside Turkey.
And it sounds like Turkey is starting a war of aggression outside their borders. So if they attack the Kurds, and Russia attacks them, Turkey cannot claim NATO mutual protection.
Turkey has already attacked the Kurds in Syria, several times.
They established the “Safe Zone” inside Syria by attacking the Kurds who were about to cut ISIS off from the Turkish Border after kobani.
The Kurds (Kurdish: کورد Kurd) are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a contiguous area spanning adjacent parts of southeastern Turkey (Northern or Turkish Kurdistan), western Iran (Eastern or Iranian Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Southern or Iraqi Kurdistan), and northern Syria (Western Kurdistan or Rojava).[47] The Kurds have ethnically diverse origins.[48][49] They are culturally and linguistically closely related to the Iranian peoples[48][50][51] and, as a result, are often themselves classified as an Iranian people.[52] Kurdish nationalists claim that the Kurds are descended from the Hurrians and the Medes,[53] (the latter being another Iranian people[54]) and the claimed Median descent is reflected in the words of the Kurdish national anthem: "we are the children of the Medes and Kai Khosrow".
“Turkey seems far more concerned with keeping the supply lines to ISIS open from Turkey, than they do with stopping them. “
It’s a pipeline for ISIS all the way to the Black Sea. And once across, they have 3 countries that they can choose from which to enter.....
And Ukraine is one of them.
Turkey can go to hell. The Kurds are our only reliable ally in the region (other than Israel.)
Time to free Kurdistan.
“”We view the PYD as a terrorist group and we want all countries to consider the consequences of their cooperation,” one of the Turkish officials said. “”
OR WHAT?
Tuck Furkey. Billy Hayes was right about that country.
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