Posted on 08/25/2017 9:14:45 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
US Secretary of Defense James Mattis pledged support to Turkey in its ongoing fight against rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) during talks with the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish and US officials said today.
The daylong visit was intended to help smooth fraught relations between the two NATO allies. The biggest thorn is the United States’ partnership against the Islamic State with the PKK’s Syrian franchise, the People’s Protection Units (YPG). Erdogan expressed anger over that alliance to Mattis during a half-hour meeting at the presidential complex. Mattis, in turn, repeated assurances that the US partnership with the YPG is solely tactical and confined to the campaign against IS.
Sources familiar with the substance of the talks confirmed reports in the Turkish media that Mattis had also discussed assisting Turkey against PKK militants based in the Qandil Mountains on the Iraq-Iran border and in the mainly Yazidi-populated Sinjar region on the Iraq-Syria border. The sources told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity that US support would be “mainly on the intelligence and targeting side.” They dismissed claims by the Turkish press that US troops would carry out a joint ground offensive against the PKK in Sinjar. The Kurdistan Regional Government, a top US and Turkish ally, would also welcome US action to uproot the PKK from Sinjar.
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Daddy Bush drove most of the patriots out of the CIA decades ago. The easiest vet someone is to see if they are associated with the CIA or State. Friends of enemies...
Question the source of this bad news
I also did.
This was interesting news, just released.
Al-Jaafari rejects Turkey’s request to fight the PKK
http://en.hawarnews.com/al-jaafari-rejects-turkeys-request-to-fight-the-pkk/
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might contradict what was said.
Well, the OSS was disolved. CIA could be too.
Who has more weight, head of homeland or Sec of Def. does McMaster say what to do and Mattis says how?
Let me see; Erdogan boosts military cooperation with Iran, and a mere week later the traitorous, globalist, deep state Mattis pledges to support Erdogan against the Kurds.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-iran-military-idUSKCN1AX1AK
WAKE UP TRUMP - Mattis is really on someone else’s team, not ours. WE did not elect you to have guys like him in charge.
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