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The Grand Turk
Turkey sentences ex-British soldier to 8 years in prison for joining YPG in Syria
2018-09-16
Gaining yet another hostage against a Western nation, and demonstrating where Sultan Erdogan Tayyip Recep the First’s preferences lie with regard to Sunni jihadis beyond his borders.
[AlMasdar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 has sentenced an ex-British soldier to eight years in prison for joining the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria.

According to a report from the AFP News Agency, Joe Robinson, 25, was placed in durance vile
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
 by the Ottoman Turkish security forces while he was on holiday inside of the country.

Robinson was accused of fighting with the YPG in Syria before he took a brief holiday in Turkey.

The British national reportedly aided the YPG in their fight against the so-called 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (ISIS) in Syria.

The YPG is considered an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and an enemy of the Ottoman Turkish state.
Minor update from Rudaw at 8:10 p.m. EDT:
Robinson did not attend the trial for health reasons, DHA said. He is currently on bail and planning an appeal.

His Bulgarian fiancée, arrested along with him, was also sentenced to nearly two years in jail for “terrorist propaganda,” but she is currently in Britain, DHA said.

According to British press reports, the 25-year-old Robinson is a former soldier who served in Afghanistan in 2012 and went to Syria in 2015 to work in the YPG's health unit.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Erdogan has got to go, be it a truck bomb or the bullet of an assassin, or preferably a bloodless coup.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2018-09-16 14:37  

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