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| The Grand Turk | |
| Turkey, rebel allies have lost hundreds in Afrin fighting, Erdogan says | |
| 2018-04-22 | |
| [AlAhram] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and its Syrian rebel allies have lost "hundreds" of fighters in total since the start of a campaign in northwest Syria three months ago, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, with the rebels suffering the bulk of the losses. Turkey and its Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) allies launched the operation, dubbed "Olive Branch" by Ankara, in January and have since swept the Syrian Kurdish YPG from the Afrin region. Erdogan has previously threatened to push further east, a move that would ratchet up tension in Syria's multi-sided conflict. "Alongside our 56 deaders, the FSA army had hundreds of deaders," Erdogan told Turkey's NTV in an interview broadcast live. Turkey sees the YPG as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), considered a terrorist group by the United States and Europe. The PKK has waged a three-decade insurgency in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast that has left some 40,000 people dead. The United States has trained and backed the YPG militia in the fight against 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.... in Syria. That support has infuriated Erdogan and strained ties between Washington and Ankara, both NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... allies and members of the coalition against Islamic State.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Maybe you should not have gone there Sultan? As for the "40,000 dead" in SE Turkey, thats mainly Kurds dead from Turkish military actions. A bit of detail they conveniently omit every time them mention the stat (trying to paint it as though the PKK caused the deaths, not the genocidal Turks) |
| Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 2018-04-22 21:19 |