Posted on 05/11/2017 6:58:54 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The U.S. military will move forward "very quickly" with plans to distribute weapons and ammunition to Kurdish YPG fighters battling the Islamic State in Syria despite opposition from NATO ally Turkey, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday.
"We've got a certain amount of supply in the country already that was used to equip the Syrian Arab Coalition and some of that may be distributed very quickly," Air Force Col. John Dorrian, a spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led campaign against ISIS, told Pentagon reporters.
Dorrian said he did not have an exact timeline detailing when the Kurdish fighters would receive the weapons, but said any equipment provided by the United States would be "metered out" and aligned with specific tasks involved in the operation to retake Raqqa, the de facto capital of ISIS's self-proclaimed caliphate.
The weapons going to the YPG will include machine guns, mortars, small arms, and ammunition, Dorrian said.
President Donald Trump approved arming the Syrian Kurdish militia this week to support the U.S.-led offensive in Raqqa.
The decision received immediate pushback from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who regards the YPG as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or the PKK, which is considered a terrorist group by both Ankara and Washington. Erdogan accused the Trump administration on Wednesday of siding with terrorists.
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Ping.
Not sure where we're at. Turkey and Russia are not friends.
And I'm sure as hell skeptical about our intelligence.
Finaly Turkey is no friend of ours. Never was and never will thy are great at killing off races of people like the Armenians, Kurds etc. When we asked for useage of there roads they said screw you but for 50 years we supplied them with free aircraft, ships , and munitions.....Screw them they are no allie...
The majority of Turks are muslim......right..(?) So, it goes without saying...they screw everyone and everything....
Make sure we give those lady snipers enough ammunition, to do their intended tasks.
Train them on one of those Greek islands and send them back armed.
I grew up with some kids from Cyprus that hated the Turks real bad.
They would curse them just about every day and this was in NYC in the 1980’s
They need anti tank weapons and maybe some stingers.
We need to give them equipment to shoot down Turkish aircraft.
Good. Give the Kurds Javelins, up to date TOW 2s, and provide air cover.
The Kurds need us. I am glad we are finally helping them.
Betcha we started getting arms to the Kurds weeks ago.
Here we go again. The PKK is a communist organization and is one of the leaders in the drug traffic trade.
Some of these groups are supporters of Assad.
They better make sure who the hell is what.
We should have started arming them 30 years ago. I lived in Izmir in the ‘70s. The Turks were never our friends. When the General Staff was purged a few years ago, there went the last vestige of hope for a democracy, as from the time of Ataturk the secular state rested on the generals.
Go forth, armed YPG Kurds!
Turks are islamofascists, the Kurds are about the only force that has had any success against isis and the other jihadi groups. Arm them and support a Kurd state formed from parts of Turkey, Iraq, and Iran. The Turks are/have been major allies to isis.
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