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The Grand Turk
Pentagon: We have no knowledge of Erdogan’s statements regarding Trump
2018-12-18
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US military commanders have been briefed on Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
's comments and decided not to comment on them, said Pentagon front man Col. Rob Manning on Monday.

The front man also said Erdogan spoke positions on held by US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
of which the Pentagon had no knowledge of at the current time, according to statements carried on US-backed Al Hurra channel.

Manning stressed that the Pentagon sees alarming risks if The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
decides to launch ground military incursions into Syria.

The Pentagon has expressed grave concern, saying unilateral military action by any party in northeast Syria - where US forces operate - would be "unacceptable".

Earlier in the day, Erdogan suggested that Trump was more receptive to Ottoman Turkish plans to move east of the Euphrates River than his own US Defense Department.

"We officially announced that we will start a military operation to the east of the Euphrates, "Erdogan said in a speech in the central province of Konya. "We discussed this with Mr Trump and he gave a positive response."

Turkey and the United States have long been at odds over Syria policy, where Washington has backed the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia against ISIS. Ankara considers the YPG a terrorist organization tied to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an outlawed group that has waged a three-decade insurgency in southeast Turkey.

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