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    Turkish president threatens to ‘drown’ US back Kurds in Syria

    Turkish president threatens to ‘drown’ US back Kurds in Syria

    This shows how dysfunctional NATO is. Turkey is moving towards Russia. A NATO ally....

    Turkish President *Recep Tayyip Erdogan reacted in anger Monday to a proposed U.S.-trained force that could lead to Kurdish militiamen being stationed on the Syrian side of Turkey’s southern border, threatening to “drown” the force before it is born.

    The U.S.-led coalition confirmed Sunday that it is training recruits for a planned 30,000-strong force that will maintain security on Syria’s borders with Turkey and Iraq, as well as along the Euphrates River valley.


    But its manpower will be drawn from the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces, Washington’s favored proxy in the fight against the Islamic State and a major source of contention with Ankara, which views Syria’s Kurdish fighters as an extension of a Kurdish group in Turkey that has battled the central government for decades.


    Speaking on Monday at the opening of an Ankara soda *factory, Erdogan said it is his government’s duty “to drown this terrorist force before it is born.”
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    This what we defend with NATO?

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    Turkey was, and is, well suited to observe things we need(ed) to observe.They have always been and odd, $#@!ly ally.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Turkish president threatens to ‘drown’ US back Kurds in Syria

    This shows how dysfunctional NATO is. Turkey is moving towards Russia. A NATO ally....

    What? A national leader upset with outside meddling on or near it's on soil No way!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    Turkey was, and is, well suited to observe things we need(ed) to observe.They have always been and odd, $#@!ly ally.
    They have a lot of cannon fodder. I think that is why they were admitted to NATO.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Turkish president threatens to ‘drown’ US back Kurds in Syria

    This shows how dysfunctional NATO is. Turkey is moving towards Russia. A NATO ally....
    Some time ago, we were discussing Kurdish independence and it's effect the Middle East. Many here supporting the Kurds being able to govern themselves, to declare independence. It was spoken to then, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, virtually every nation in the Middle East opposes Kurdish autonomy forget Kurdish independence. It came as a surprise to me we had so many people supporting the Kurdish movements of autonomy. Seeming to support interfering in other nation's affairs, wanting to underwrite a Kurdish Cause in defiance of every neighboring country such as the 4 mentioned.

    Normally the one calling for intervention, you see my surprise. Being out-Neocon'd.......why....that didn't sit well. I wasn't calling for intervention....and we have all these supposed isolationist and "America always interferes" types wanting the US to aid Kurdish independence. Odd that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ransom View Post
    Some time ago, we were discussing Kurdish independence and it's effect the Middle East. Many here supporting the Kurds being able to govern themselves, to declare independence. It was spoken to then, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, virtually every nation in the Middle East opposes Kurdish autonomy forget Kurdish independence. It came as a surprise to me we had so many people supporting the Kurdish movements of autonomy. Seeming to support interfering in other nation's affairs, wanting to underwrite a Kurdish Cause in defiance of every neighboring country such as the 4 mentioned.

    Normally the one calling for intervention, you see my surprise. Being out-Neocon'd.......why....that didn't sit well. I wasn't calling for intervention....and we have all these supposed isolationist and "America always interferes" types wanting the US to aid Kurdish independence. Odd that.
    I don't see an independent Kurdistan.
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