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| The Grand Turk |
| State Dept: US will not allow Turkey to attack PYD in Syria |
| 2015-08-12 |
| [Rudaw] The United States will not allow ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to attack Kurdish People's Democratic Party (PYD) forces in northern Syria, US State Department front man Mark Toner told Rudaw Tuesday. The statement came after Feridun H. Sinirlioglu, an undersecretary in the Turkish foreign ministry, said earlier Tuesday that the US and Turkey had reached an agreement to create a buffer zone along the Turkey-Syria border under the supervision of US-led coalition air forces. Sinirlioglu added that according to the deal, if the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) or the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... enter this zone, they will be targeted by both US-led coalition forces and Turkish air forces. But according to Toner, based on the agreement with Turkish authorities, PYD forces should not be attacked in the proposed buffer zone. He emphasized that the US would not allow Turkey to attack the PYD in Syria. The PYD is an offshoot of the PKK, and its armed wing the Peoples Protection Units (YPG) have cooperated with the US and coalition air forces in battling ISIS in Syria. In late July both the US and Turkey accepted an outline for a buffer zone along the Turkey-Syria border. According to the terms of the deal, such a zone would raise the scope and pace of the US-led air war against ISIS. Turkish authorities announced that the anti-Bashir al-Assad Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... would take control of the buffer zone in order to protect internally displaced persons in the north of Syria. The zone will stretch about 98 kilometers (61 miles) near the Turkey-Syria border and go 45 kilometers (28 miles) into Syrian territory. It will include the town of Jarabulus in the province of Aleppo. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 So long as strikes stay in Turkey and Iraq? Or identified by a name other than PYD? "Oh, that strike in Syria was against the PKK." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-08-12 15:56 |
| #5 Sorry, but even the Obama Presidential Library will have no documents. Just videos of the One. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-08-12 14:37 |
| #4 It is my profound hope that a new administration will release all documents related to the moronic, if not criminal, US-Turkey (2009-2015) and US-Egypt (2011-2013) relations. Of course that "new administration" might not occur in my lifetime, but I can dream. |
| Posted by: Clomp Omagum5939 2015-08-12 11:15 |
| #3 ...well, if we were Russians, someone would have an 'accident'. But we're not. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-12 10:31 |
| #2 And how, pray-chance, will we stop them? Strongly worded letter? Personal visit by Obumble and his she-bitch? Hashtag war? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-08-12 10:02 |
| #1 All these different names... |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-08-12 09:54 |