Posted on 08/25/2016 9:07:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Turkey has threatened further intervention in northern Syria unless Kurdish-led forces fully withdraw east of the River Euphrates within a week.
On Wednesday, Turkish forces helped Syrian rebels take the border town of Jarablus from so-called Islamic State.
Turkish Defence Minister Fikri Isik said on Thursday the operation had two goals - to secure the border area and ensure the Kurds "are not there".
Ankara fears Kurdish gains in Syria will fuel an insurgency at home.
As Mr Isik spoke, a column of some 10 Turkish tanks and a similar number of armoured vehicles reportedly crossed the border near Jarablus.
It was not immediately clear if the deployment was aimed at securing the town or helping members of the rebel Free Syrian Army push further into IS-held territory
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Look for Obama to hang the Kurds out to dry.
Well I guess that Obama has officially thrown the Kurds under the bus.
I wonder if the Turks will now escort a new garrison of jihadis (with a different black flag) into Manbij?
Funny how the Turks never fought this hard against ISIS.
What happens when a NATO country invades another sovereign nation without any authorizations?
Is there article -5 for NATO to go along?
No surprise that Obama is knifing the Kurds in the back.
They were, after all, America’s allies.
They fought alongside America at a time when Turkey refused to permit US forces to stage out of Turkey during the liberation of Iraq.
NATO needs to drop Turkey like a bad habit.
“Look for Obama to hang the Kurds out to dry.”
He already did.
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/07/02/did-obama-block-arab-allies-from-directly-arming-the-kurds/
Turkey needs to be shut down. Give Kurds any and all traditional lands. Arm them to kill any Islamic terrorist, Turkish or otherwise, that might threaten them. Fund Kurds for every dead Islamic terrorist.
The USA’s newest JV proxy team, known as the “SDF” or “Syrian Democratic Force” ... we got to back them, they must be democratic because its in their name...is a smattering of militias of various ideologies but mostly YPG Kurds who are being trained advised (and armed) by US troops now on the ground in Syria (I missed the Congressional oversight hearings on that deployment, as apparently did the entire GOP congress) .
Having a strengthened US-backed YPG/SDF establish a de facto Kurdish state in Northern Syria along the Turkish border is a non starter for Erdogan. The Turks seem to have revitalized some of the USA-formed “FSA- Free Syrian Army”, another group of dirt bags who have been almost totally ineffective except at killing Syrian police and kidnapping and shelling (and gassing) villagers they consider “loyalist” to Assad,
Erdogan, while wooing and using the FSA as partners for cover in invading Syria, is willing to let bygones be bygones with Assad for now over a shared imperative of not permitting the USA to devise a partitioned Syria with a Kurd “republic” under de facto US military and intelligence control, as a springboard for further destabilization of both countries
Turkey wants the Kurds to get back east of the river so they can keep the supply corridor open for ISIS and the moderate beheaders. With the help of the US.
We’re playing on every team in the region. It won’t work.
Obama told them to back off and get outa town.....cuz our other good guys in Turkey are coming to kill you.
Confusing?? I read about it yesterday. I believe Kerry was in Turkey. The whole thing is absurd.
NATO or otherwise, Turkey should be bombed.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-turkey-idUSKCN10Z07J
Definitely getting messier.
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