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Russia says Turkey supplies Islamic State via Syrian town of Azaz
Reuters ^ | February 16th, 2016 | by Dmitry Solovyov

Posted on 02/16/2016 7:07:42 AM PST by Mariner

Turkey has vowed it will not let the Syrian town of Azaz fall into the hands of Kurdish forces because it lies on a supply route used by Ankara to support Islamic State, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

Turkey accused Russia on Monday of an "obvious war crime" after missile attacks in northern Syria killed scores of people, and warned the YPG Kurdish militia it would face the "harshest reaction" if it tried to capture Azaz near the Turkish border.

"Some of our partners have literally implored us 'not to touch' a corridor which is a bit shorter than 100 kilometers on the Syrian-Turkish border around Azaz," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in official comments, mentioning Washington and its allies also operating in Syria.

"Obviously, this is aimed at ensuring continued daily supplies to Islamic State, Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist groups with weapons, ammunition and food from Turkey via this area, and also to allow it to serve as a passageway for terrorists," she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: agitprop; astroturf; paidrussiantrolls; putinsbuttboys; russia; russianstooge; russianstooges; vladtheimploder
Turkey is increasingly boxed in and desperate...begging the US to stop them before they do something stupid.

We're not answering the phone.

1 posted on 02/16/2016 7:07:42 AM PST by Mariner
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To: Mariner

I love that turkey lost it’s ISIS supplied oil pipe line:-) We need turkey like a hole in the head!


2 posted on 02/16/2016 7:09:59 AM PST by Harpotoo
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To: Mariner

Who says the crISIS manufactured by Comrade Chairman FlexObumble isn’t paying off?

Without Obama’s “flexibility” - Vlad wouldn’t have had an excuse to “intervene” here, or in Ukraine, or..


3 posted on 02/16/2016 7:11:12 AM PST by HLPhat (Preventing Global Cooling one tank full at a time!)
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To: Mariner

Where did all those new Toyota trucks come from?


4 posted on 02/16/2016 7:13:30 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Marco "Stepford" Rubio.)
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To: HLPhat
"Without Obama’s “flexibility” - Vlad wouldn’t have had an excuse to “intervene” here, or in Ukraine, or.."

Are you suggesting the US should have reacted militarily to those moves by Russia?

5 posted on 02/16/2016 7:14:38 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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"Where did all those new Toyota trucks come from?"

Japan, via Istanbul.

6 posted on 02/16/2016 7:15:27 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: Mariner
The Kurds have "been at war" for eons. They want their own country. Unfortunately, their "area" abuts TURKEY, SYRIA, IRAN and IRAQ.

Though tough, fierce folks, they won't ever get their country as THEY want and they won't take anything less than ALL they want. So, the fighting continues.
It was the same 35 years ago when we lived in the middle east. Not much seems to have changed.

7 posted on 02/16/2016 7:17:02 AM PST by cloudmountain
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No. I’m saying Russia wouldn’t have had an excuse for these military moves if Comrade Chairman Flex-O-Bumble hadn’t manufactured the crISISes for Russia to “responds” to in the first place.


8 posted on 02/16/2016 7:18:18 AM PST by HLPhat (Preventing Global Cooling one tank full at a time!)
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To: Mariner

Exactly.

Good morning.

Happy to be on the same side today.


9 posted on 02/16/2016 7:21:17 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Marco "Stepford" Rubio.)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Where did all those new Toyota trucks come from?

Toyota sure gets around.
When we lived in the KSA decades ago, we would occasionally fly down to Jeddah from the Eastern Province. One could CLEARLY see the Bedouin encampments from the air. Mind you, we were in an old Fokker one time and thus flew LOW.

We WERE scheduled to fly on the ARAMCO jet but, without warning, our ARAMCO jet TOOK OFF, without us. We learned soon that old Sheik Yamani needed it IMMEDIATELY and we were left with the old Fokker. It had pulled up a few minutes earlier and we all LAUGHED at the old bucket. Little did we know.
So off we went.
A dust storm had started up and the winds and sands were BLOWING. It was like out of a movie. The pilot was yelling: WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST!! My husband hung on to my shoulders and came on WITH me.
I remember the NOISE. Boy, was that old Fokker NOISY.

ANYWAY, the Bedouin camps had tents and TOYOTA pickup trucks, right next to their black tailed sheep and a few goats . It was hilarious. They also had some pretty fancy looking radar or some type of communication stuff.

It was OBVIOUS the the Bedu had choices of where and how to live and SOME of them wanted the desert life...even if it was just for a while.

You KNOW I couldn't have made THAT up. It was surreal.

10 posted on 02/16/2016 7:29:11 AM PST by cloudmountain
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Where did all those new Toyota trucks come from?

Seems like those Toyotas came from the US at the hands of the DEPARTMENT OF STATE .

The Mystery of ISIS' Toyota Army Solved

11 posted on 02/16/2016 7:29:17 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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(forgot this excerpt)

The mystery of how hundreds of identical, brand-new ISIS-owned Toyota trucks have made it into Syria is solved. Not only has the US and British government admitted in the past to supplying them, their military forces and intelligence agencies ply the borders of Turkey, Jordan, and even Iraq where these fleets of trucks must have surely passed on their way to Syria – even if other regional actors supplied them. While previous admissions to supplying the vehicles implicates the West directly, that nothing resembling interdiction operations have been set up along any of these borders implicates the West as complicit with other parties also supplying vehicles to terrorists inside of Syria.

http://journal-neo.org/2015/10/09/the-mystery-of-isis-toyota-army-solved/


12 posted on 02/16/2016 7:33:27 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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13 posted on 02/16/2016 7:54:21 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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I wonder at what point will Russia take out the Turkish artillery that is firing into Syria and hitting Kurdish positions?


14 posted on 02/16/2016 8:58:25 AM PST by Truth29
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"Where did all those new Toyota trucks come from?" Japan, via Istanbul.

Hiluxes, I presume. All across the MENA they use them, usually as "technical". Our own special forces use the Toyota Tundras, which are the versions sold in the US. Both reasons why I want to get a Tundra. Sturdy, reliable, inexpensive, good gas mileage, and modifiable.
15 posted on 02/16/2016 11:02:05 AM PST by baltimorepoet
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"I wonder at what point will Russia take out the Turkish artillery that is firing into Syria and hitting Kurdish positions?"

Not unless Turkey hits Russian forces.

That's why Russia is about to drive under the barrage in broad daylight.

16 posted on 02/16/2016 12:08:14 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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