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Turkish President Erdogan Blasts Vladimir Putin: 'Don't Play with Fire'
PJ Media ^ | 11-27-2015 | Michael van der Galien

Posted on 11/27/2015 7:14:27 AM PST by Michael van der Galien

A few days ago, Turkish F16-jets shut down a Russian jet. Ever since, tensions between Turkey and Russia have been on the rise.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has publicly threatened Turkey, and has taken action against Turkish citizens inside Russia. Some construction companies owned by Turks have been raided, trucks delivering flowers have been sent back at the border, and the Russian government has warned Turkish food producers that their goods may no longer be welcome in Russia.

At the same time, Putin has spoken out against Turkey's Islamist ruler, President Erdogan, by accusing him of supporting terrorism. The Russian president said in a joint press conference with French President Francois Hollande yesterday that Turkey has supported all kinds of Islamist groups in Syria, ISIS being one of them.

President Erdogan has now shot back. He warns Putin not to "play with fire," adding that Putin and Assad, not Turkey, are supporting ISIS:

"Putin says ‘those who have double standards on terrorism are playing with fire.’ I totally agree with him. Indeed, supporting the [Bashar] al-Assad regime in Syria, which has killed 380,000 people, is playing with fire. Striking opposition groups that have international legitimacy with the excuse of fighting against Daesh [an acronym of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL] is playing with fire. Using an incident in which Turkey’s righteousness is accepted by the whole world as an excuse to torment our citizens who were in Russia to attend a fair is playing with fire. Irresponsibly hitting trucks in the region that are there for trade or humanitarian reasons is playing with fire. We sincerely advise Russia not to play with fire." He went on to say that the United States has documented the oil trade between ISIS, Russia and the Syrian regime.

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TOPICS: Russia
KEYWORDS: isis; russia; terrorism; turkey
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To: Michael van der Galien

It’s amazing to see but Russia and Putin actually have the moral high ground on this one. Obama and Erdogan are supporting ISIS terrorist under the guise of helping Syrian rebels against Assad. This will not end well for anyone but at least mother Russia is taking it to the head choppers.


21 posted on 11/27/2015 7:44:30 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Navy Patriot

God rebuke that fool Erdogan. Before he can do any more harm.


22 posted on 11/27/2015 7:46:09 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Michael van der Galien
I don't think Putin is playing. He seems to be serious about 'fire'.


23 posted on 11/27/2015 7:48:05 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

You’d think EVERYBODY would be burying hatchets in the interest of sending ISIS to the ash heap of history.

But that’s not how the devil defends himself.


24 posted on 11/27/2015 7:48:10 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Da Coyote

Yeah like they did in Aghanistan.


25 posted on 11/27/2015 7:49:12 AM PST by kabar
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To: Michael van der Galien

Turkey, under the guidance of Erdogan and his allies, are becoming increasingly Islamist and more militant and virtually all of the more secular former senior military leaders have been replaced. While Western media and the Obama administration may not recognize or report that fact, Putin certainly does and it will undoubtedly influence his policy vis-à-vis Turkey.


26 posted on 11/27/2015 7:52:34 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Erdogan will find out he is the one playing with fire.

But he has NATO behind him doesn't he? Even if he did it's still playing with fire.

27 posted on 11/27/2015 7:56:55 AM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: ManHunter

Putin might have to launch a super blitz and warn Obama and NATO to stay away. That could be the sanest thing in the world to say, and I say it with some shame about where it puts America, but we knew Obama was a stinker.


28 posted on 11/27/2015 7:57:51 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Eddie01
NATO is or was in lock-down. Sheltering in place.

NATO ain't coming to help nobody.

Turkey bombs the Kurds. The Kurds used to be our allies.

We should be bombing Islamist Turkey for attacking our allies.

Could these people running our government F$%# up a bread sammich?

...rhetorical...

29 posted on 11/27/2015 8:03:02 AM PST by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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To: Tau Food

In the end, Russia will side with Russia.


30 posted on 11/27/2015 8:03:38 AM PST by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
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To: Michael van der Galien

Bring back Constantinople!

Do that, Pooty-Poot, and Russia will finally get some of that respect it wants from the West.


31 posted on 11/27/2015 8:05:08 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Tau Food
The truth is that both Putin and Obama want our countries to cooperate with one another in defeating ISIS

I think you would hard pressed to actually prove that statement...

I find very little evidence Obama actually wants to defeat ISIL...

Obama is mostly as they say "all hat and no cattle"

He talks but does almost nothing...

In my book, Obama is sympathetic to ISIL as long as they help get rid of Assad...

32 posted on 11/27/2015 8:05:58 AM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Popman

The French were more than pissed recently when they relied on US targeting for an airstrike. What they ended up hitting were empty, abandoned buildings, not command and control centers or active munitions warehouses. 0bama is providing cover for ISIS


33 posted on 11/27/2015 8:09:02 AM PST by wrench
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To: luvbach1
Putin is playing with fire, which is why all he can do is talk tough.

The Turkish Armed Forces collectively rank as the second largest standing military force in NATO, after the U.S. Armed Forces, with an estimated strength in 2015 of 639,551 military, civilian and paramilitary personnel. Turkey is one of five NATO member states which are part of the nuclear sharing policy of the alliance, together with Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. A total of 90 B61 nuclear bombs are hosted at the Incirlik Air Base, 40 of which are allocated for use by the Turkish Air Force in case of a nuclear conflict, but their use requires the approval of NATO.

Anyone familiar with how Turks perform in battle know that they are some of the fiercest soldiers in the world. The Russians want no part of them.


34 posted on 11/27/2015 8:09:21 AM PST by kabar
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To: Seruzawa
In the end, Russia will side with Russia.

I hope so.

35 posted on 11/27/2015 8:17:40 AM PST by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: Tau Food

In the end, Russia will side with the West.0

The West is Europe .... and Russia is already siding with the West when it comes to the issue of the various Islamic factions, Islamic aggression and ISIS

The problem is does Turkey and the US (Obama) really side with the West?...... when it come to ISIS and Islam.....

Problem being they Turkey and the US (Obama) are seen as secretly supporting ISIS and Islamic state tyrant vs Assad who is essentially secular.

we have Islamic state run by Islamic tyrants... Iran and what Isis is trying to create .. the Islamic revolutionary Republic’s

And we have secular states, (Assad’s Syria) even though they’re primarily Islamic

the Europeans and Russians prefer secular non expansion tyrants in the Middle East

versus

Expansionist Islamic state tyrants of the Middle East at countries like Turkey and Obama seem to support

Assad has no designs outside of his own borders ...

ISIS and Iran do... they both have designs for an Islamic one world government... the caliphate


36 posted on 11/27/2015 8:17:55 AM PST by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patriots are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: Michael van der Galien
Turkish President Erdogan Blasts Vladimir Putin: 'Don't Play with Fire'

What? I did not set you on fire. Yet.


37 posted on 11/27/2015 8:18:33 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Michael van der Galien
Erdogan is just another lying Muslim, like our lying Muslim-In-Chief.

You almost have to feel sorry for the Muslim peasants if this is all they get from their leaders is lie upon lie.

We've been schooled for near 8 years on what it's like by our lying Muslim.

38 posted on 11/27/2015 8:29:32 AM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: Michael van der Galien

I would like to see Constantinople a Christian city once again.


39 posted on 11/27/2015 8:30:25 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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To: tophat9000
Russia

Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.)

note: estimates are of practicing worshipers; Russia has large populations of non-practicing believers and non-believers, a legacy of over seven decades of Soviet rule

40 posted on 11/27/2015 8:32:05 AM PST by kabar
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