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Posted on 03/15/2017 9:48:31 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday said in a speech in which he criticized the Dutch government, that Turkey will still attack the town of Manbij, which was previously liberated from ISIS by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
“We won’t allow a terror state, controlled by the PKK and YPG, to be established in northern Syria,” he said.
“After Jarablus, Dabiq and Al-Bab, now it’s Manbij’s turn,” he added.
Moreover, the Turkish president said following his meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday, that Turkey wants to work with Russia and the US-led coalition in Manbij, requesting help to remove the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) from Manbij.
“We, as Turkey and Russia, want to cooperate with the coalition forces there,” he said. “If the Coalition powers are with us, we can take out YPG from Manbij.”
“Our people [Turks] in the Netherlands] are under attack. That’s why we should attack Afrin, Kobane, Qamishlo, Manbij, and Tal Abyad” pro-Turkish government reporter Yilmaz Bilgen said on Saturday.
Speaking to ARA News by phone from Qamishli, Sihanouk Dibo, the presidential adviser to the Democratic Union Party (PYD), said that it is unlikely that Russia or the US-led coalition will stop their support to the SDF in Manbij.
“It seems there is one policy in the international community,” he said. “They are all against terrorism and support the SDF and Syrian Democratic Council project.”
Moreover, Dibo confirmed that until now the Syrian Kurdish representative office in Moscow led by Rodi Osman has not been closed.
Nawaf Xelil, a Kurdish analyst and former official from the Democratic Union Party (PYD), told ARA News that the Erdogan-Putin meeting should be understood in the context of Turkey’s difficulties in al-Bab, where they and their allies were bogged down for months.
“In my opinion, the Americans and Russians will not allow Turkey [to assault Manbij], because all Syriacs, Arabs and Kurds are united in the Syrian Democratic Forces,” he reasoned. “Turkey knows the United States will not change its plans.”
Xelil added that “the SDF are now on the banks of the Euphrates River […] 8 kilometers from Raqqa, and they have cut the roads between Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor,” the Islamic State’s (ISIS) largest urban strongholds.
In contrast, the Kurdish analyst believes that Turkey is being considered as ineffective, placing itself “in a bad situation, with bad relations with its neighbors and the West.”
“Turkey is in a weak position, it has bad relations with Iraq, Syria, Iran, Germany, and now also Holland is telling Turkey to not make propaganda there [for the April presidential referendum],” Xelil told ARA News.
Recently, the Netherlands did not allow the Turkish Foreign Minister to campaign for the Turkish presidential referendum on Saturday, and also deported a Turkish minister from the country.
“The countries in the European Union, such as Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Norway are unhappy with Turkey and it’s Middle East policy,” Sihanouk Dibo said.
“Previously, a UN report showed how the AKP is against the Kurdish people in North Kurdistan. The UN stance is that Turkey’s policy is wrong,” he added. “They should accept the federal project in northern Syria.”
I have been told that the Rojava Peshmerga who have entered Rojava region of Syria feel and have acted on the same attitude. The so called Rojava Peshmerga were largely trained by Turkish MIT (intellience) and are loyal to Turkey more than to Kurds.
There is a current effort, which the US is in the middle of, to expose and kill the remaining Ezidi in Shingal Mountain area. Turkey's excuse? To remove PKK.
Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia....
Should be target coordinates for US ICBMs....
And, we should let them in on that little fact.
100 years ago the Turkish genocide of Armenians. Today, Turkish genocide of Kurds?
What exactly is the process for cutting Turkey loose from NATO? How exactly are they our partner in anything? We’ll find a new airbase, lets move out of Incirlik...
Effectively, Turkey is vowing to attack Syria. Since Syria allows/supports the Kurds attacking/remaining in the regions which Turkey and their FSA are attacking.
So NATO allows/enables this invasion of a sovereign nation, by Turkey with no authority.
Some things never change.
Saw Rick Steves ‘travel hype’ the other day and he was in Turkey... You’d think it was the garden of Eden and the US is a sewer compared.
I’m real sick of his BS
If muslims aren’t killing Jews and Christians they are perfectly content to kill other muslims.
Left to their own devices they would just keep killing everyone until the only two humans left in the world were two mulims.
Then one of them would kill the other one.
The Kurds were always the best of the lot n Iraq s I’m a little confused as to whom the enemy is.
Kurds are not all Muslim. It depends on where they are as to the extent of that statement.
In Iraq, very high percentage of Muslim, except for Nineveh which was largely Christian. Note, the Peshmerga there refuses to arm the Christians.
In Shingal Mountains not high Muslim content. The Iraq Peshmerga don’t want the Ezidi’s armed. They would kill them all if allowed. We don’t appear to understand that.
In N Syria it depends on the community, but a fairly large Christian and Zorasterian content. They also leave atheists alone. And the numbers are increasing in both groups. Rojava is under sectarian rules there now. Syria in general, until ISIS, were not as oppressive to Christians, especially in the Kurdish area even before the war.
I’ve been thinking about the Armenians too. Wonder if they’s like to have some arms.
It was not invited and was in the beginning done in the name of killing ISIS. Which does not resonate, since Erdogan is an Islamist and with Obama & Hillary armed and trained Al Quaeda and ISIS precursors. Until very recently
Turkey also made a deal with ISIS for control of Al Bab. They only held a small part of the city and were bogged down for months there.
In that deal it is said a ME Oil nation paid large sum of money and ISIS left (some of the ISIS simply changed badges and joint the Terrorist surrogates of Turkey)
This is a mess. Largely caused by Gulf Oil money, Obama, Hillary and Erdogan.
I wish Flynn retained his job; I’m sure he would have done it well... but... he certainly lobbied for Turkey and I read that piece where he defended Turkey, very strategic as well. That’s some problem that needs fixing. I don’t agree with him on that.
The Kurds need to be given their own autonomous region. They will fight and continued to fight for that part of Turkey they believe is their’s.
Demographically, they are due to become the majority in Turkey.
With help from McCain, Graham and Rubio.
Assad helped kill American soldiers in Iraq under Bush’s war, Assad is one of the biggest ISIS collaborators around.
He calls us invaders because he doesn’t want us to see his sweetheart deals with ISIS.
Yes, Assad is an evil man. His father destroyed Lebanon. He is allied with Iran, don’t come any more evil. He is supported by Russia.
ISIS has been trying to take Assad down, ME Oil money was financing it, Obama, Hillary and Erdogan were parties to it.
Assad did not Support ISIS. (Arab militias he did)
Yes
Yes. Kurds and Ezidis.
David Duke praises Assad; a lot of this we hear really is just Russian propaganda.
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