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The Grand Turk
Turkey warns France against supporting Kurdish YPG militants
2018-12-26
[PRESSTV] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
has warned La Belle France against supporting US-backed People's Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria, in the wake of 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...
’s decision last week to withdraw American troops from the war-ravaged Arab country.

"If La Belle France is staying to contribute to Syria's future, great, but if they are doing this to protect the (militants), this will bring no benefit to anyone," Ottoman Turkish-language Hurriyet daily newspaper quoted Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu as saying on Tuesday.

Turkey considers the YPG a terrorist organization and an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been fighting for an autonomous region inside Turkey since 1984.

Cavusoglu further noted that Ankara has "the power to neutralize ISIS alone" amid speculations that the US exit from Syria would influence the military campaign against the Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
terrorist group.

The top Ottoman Turkish diplomat then criticized French "support" of the YPG, which he said was "no secret."

Posted by:Fred

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