Posted on 10/28/2015 4:04:54 PM PDT by keat
Turkey will "do what is necessary" to prevent U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish rebels from declaring autonomy in the town of Tel Abyad near the Turkish border, including conducting further military operations, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday.
NATO member Turkey is part of the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants in Syria, but it sees advances by autonomy-seeking Kurds, led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD), as a threat to its own national security, fearing they could stoke separatism among Turkish Kurds.
Turkish jets recently hit the Syrian Kurds' armed People's Protection Units (YPG) targets twice after they defied Ankara and crossed west of the Euphrates River.
"This was a warning. 'Pull yourself together. If you try to do this elsewhere - Turkey doesn't need permission from anyone - we will do what is necessary,'" Erdogan said, signaling he could defy Washington's demand that Ankara avoid hitting Syrian Kurds and focus its military might on Islamic State targets.
Erdogan, in remarks broadcast live on the Kanal 24 television station, also accused the PYD of carrying out "ethnic cleansing" in the area and said Western support for the Syrian Kurdish militias amounted to aiding terrorism.
Backed by U.S.-led air strikes, YPD fighters captured Tel Abyad in June from Islamic State, and this month a local leadership council declared the town part of the system of autonomous self-governing "cantons" run by the Kurds.
"The PYD is committing ethnic cleansing here (of) Arabs and Turkmen," Erdogan said. "If the Kurds withdraw and don't form a canton, there's no problem. But if the mindset continues, then what is necessary will be done or we face serious problems.
"We are determined to (combat) anything that threatens us along the Syrian border, inside or out."
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Turkey = ISIS
Come on Putin. Defend the Kurds. Take out a Turkish fighter jet.
Take out Erdogens new palace to give him a head’s up.
So oil trading with ISIS can continue.
I wish the U.S. would “hit” Erdogan, with a drone strike
tErdogan
Turkey is retrogressing back into Islamism under the Islamist Erdogan The Turks hate the Kurds and both admire and do business with ISIS. And THAT is the truth.
Russia is blowing up our stuff. Iran and Syria are blowing up our stuff. ISIS blows up our stuff. And now Turkey is blowing up our stuff.
Why can’t they send some stuff to me. I would love to blow up some stuff. And shipping would be cheaper.
Anyone getting a clue yet what’s really driving this whole war?
Turkey = ISIS.
As far as international leaders are concerned, Erdogan is one of obama’s best friends.
It’s an admission that the policy is NOT about the right of “Turks” to be Turks and rule themselves, but about not allowing the same to be true of the Kurds. The Turks might get equally aggressive with the Kurds in Iraq & work with a Shia led Iraq if the Kurds in the northern province sought real political autonomy and Baghdad wanted to consider it grounds for military action against it.
Kick....them....out....of....NATO.
An oil pipeline that Russia wants from what I gather and the House of Saud sees that as an economic threat.
It would be such a welcome development if the Turkish military took out that gaggle of islamists running Turkey. They are truly the enemy.
The Turkmen hate the Kurds and they hate ISIS too. About a year ago one of their national monuments, a tomb ocated just across the border in Syria, was being threatened with destruction by these 7th century savages.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/06/turkeys_new_neighbor.php
This has gone from a regional struggle to something entirely different due to Russia’s strong desire to keep its warm water naval facility in Tartus.
And Obama is perceived as weak. It’s going to go on until the Russians think Bashar al-Assad’s government is firmly back in the driver’s seat.
Oh yeah, because of their barbarism in the Beslan school hostage outrage, their own Afghanistan and many other contacts with the ROP, the Russians hate ISIS. And muslims generally for that matter.
The musselmen killed 3,000 of us in one fell swoop on 9-11-01, something our Fearless Leader—who is not (ahem) a muslim—would like to have us forget. And have killed and maimed more of us since that date.
The Russians are waxing their skiis. Let `em work.
0vomit described Erdogan as his best fiend in the region!
By abandoning Kemalism Erdogan has destabilized his own country
Going to be big trouble in Ankara and soon
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