Posted on 04/20/2017 7:28:53 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Former US President Barack Obama deceived Turkey by failing to abide by an agreement about the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview with Al Jazeera broadcast on Wednesday.
“With President Obama, we had a mutual agreement about the PKK – but Obama deceived us. I don’t believe the Trump administration will do the same,” Erdogan said in regards to American support for the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), a group Ankara claims is affiliated to the outlawed PKK.
The Turkish President has called several times on his new US counterpart to ditch support for the YPG, a group hailed as being the most effective force fighting the extremist Islamic State (IS) group in Syria.
“The YPG is an arm of the PKK. We must put an end to this,” Erdogan said. “We can’t destroy one terrorist group with another one. We are strategic partners with the US.”
Meanwhile the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is led by the YPG, have encircled the last major cities, Tabqa and Raqqa, in IS’ hands and are awaiting a final plan to storm the latter.
A US military official in March said the SDF did not pose a threat to Turkey.
Speaking to Rudaw, US Colonel John Dorrian, said US troops on the ground in Manbij were there to “to make sure there is no security incident and to make sure there is no persistent YPG presence in the city, or anything that would threaten Turkey because we are also committed to Turkey’s security.”
Erdogan and Trump are set to meet at the NATO Summit in Brussels on 24 May.
Erdogan the Islamist is not compatible in NATO. He is dying to invade more of his neighbors and kill more Kurds with no actual cause. He is Fascist Islamits dictator now.
This will not end well.
Man it seems like the Kurds are the only decent people over there - hence why they are hated and persecuted. Turkey like the Germans and Russians is a known genocide practitioner.
There are certainly a large number of bad players in the Middle East. Fact.
Trump should tell Erdogan: You attack the YPG in Syria and you attack me.
I’d love to see a coalition of Russians, Greeks, Armenians and Kurds burn Turkey to the ground and then have Istanbul be renamed to Constantinople.
Turkey Ping
I understand your urge.
Doubt it happens, but what rules Turkey is pure evil.
Genocide again approaches the area.
Totally agree. And Putin? I don’t think he has to be told.
I am still praying for sanity to prevail and both Russia and the US put the lid on Erdogan the Islamist’s desire to commit genocide.
Man it seems like the Kurds are the only decent people over there - hence why they are hated and persecuted. Turkey like the Germans and Russians is a known genocide practitioner.
Obama deceived EVERYONE on the planet - been doing it all his life and is still at it in hiding but still directing his commie deep state burrowed deep within the cesspool titled DC.
Yep.
Just imagine what the Iran deal really is!
I think that Erdogan has plans to conduct a “slow roll” genocide of the Kurdish people.
Boy is he in for a surprise.
Just heard a report on the John Batchelor radio show that Turks are still demonstrating against the stealing of the referendum vote - despite a media blackout and ongoing arrests.
Does not surprise me. If the get 100’s of thousands in the streets, Erdogan cannot simply arrest them. It happened in Egypt and Sisi stepped in. It could still happen in Turkey (Kemalists). (not holding my breath after the fau coup).
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