Posted on 11/21/2022 5:20:07 AM PST by FarCenter
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday he was mulling going beyond air strikes and launching a ground operation in Syria following a deadly rocket strike on a Turkish border town.
Erdogan also renewed warnings that those attacking Turkey will pay dearly, a day after Ankara's forces launched air raids on bases of outlawed Kurdish groups in northern Syria and Iraq.
"There is no question that this operation be limited to only an aerial operation," Erdogan told reporters on returning to Turkey from Qatar where he attended the FIFA World Cup opening.
"Competent authorities, our defence ministry and chief of staff will together decide the level of force that should be used by our ground forces," Erdogan said.
"We have already warned that we will make those who violate our territory pay," he added.
Erdogan spoke after a rocket strike from Syrian territory killed at least three people, including a child, in a border Turkish town.
That strike came a day after Turkey carried out air raids against the bases of Kurdish militant groups in northern Syria and Iraq which it said were being used to launch "terrorist" attacks on Turkish soil.
The overnight raids mainly targeting positions held by Syrian Kurdish forces in northern and northeastern Syria killed at least 31 people, according to the British-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), among those attacked, said Turkey launched new air strikes on Monday.
The Turkish raids, codenamed Operation Claw-Sword, came a week after a blast in central Istanbul killed six people and wounded 81.
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I wonder if our Ukraine warmongers want us involved in this as well…
Calling Mr. World Policeman, Mr. World Policeman, new quagmire in aisle Middle East.
We need to get involved in this, and we haven’t done anything in South America for some time.
I’m thinking an invasion, followed by a police action/nation building conflict in Venezuela.
Perpetual warfare is peace.
The smell of WW III is in the air and the communists and neocons are experiencing wargasms over the prospect of blood and treasure.
“All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.” GWB
We need to name an aggressor here so we stand with someone while we bomb the bejeebers out of someone else.
Everything worked out wonderfully for Libya…
The US trained a Syrian woman, Ahlam Albashir, to leave a bomb in a shopping district . She was trained in Syria by US forces.
Turkey, fwiw, has not given the green light to the Nordic NATO wannabes because they are harboring similar terrorists. Turkey has asked for extradition of said terrorists. The Nordic NATO wannabes have balked.
So Turkey gets the treatment when they don’t do as DC dictates.
Last week the head of the CIA met with his Russian counterpart in Turkey. Must have been an interesting conversation.
That includes Commie Putin and Commie Xi.
That would certainly be an interesting meeting to hear.
I don’t know why Turkey and the US are in NATO.
Over the last 52 weeks, the BIST 100 (Turkey’s stock exchange), is up 157.53 Percent. The rest of the World’s stock exchanges over the same 52-week period are negative. Does anyone who knows stuff, know why this is?
I wonder if our Ukraine warmongers want us involved in this as well…
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I can answer that without even checking to see if any of them show up. It’s an emphatic “Yes!”
Erdogan has fired central bank presidents and finance ministers to prevent interest rates from being raised.
In fact Erdogan’s policy has been to lower interest rates with the inflation rate in Turkey last I heard 80 or 90 percent.
If Turkey attacked Syria from the rear, would Greece help?
Obama put US troops in Syria close to a Russian base during is first European pipeline war. Zelensk was installed during obamas tenure.
If we get bidens regime change in Europe.. the globalists will gain control of vast Russian resources. These resources are required to o green.
Only china and Russia have vast resources required, but not committed to globalists.
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