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The Grand Turk
Erdogan to Trump: Turkey ready to take over Syria’s Manbij
2019-01-21
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
is ready to take over security in Syria’s Manbij, 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...
told 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...
in a telephone call on Sunday, the Ottoman Turkish presidency said in a statement.

Erdogan said an attack that left four Americans dead last week in Manbij was an act of provocation aimed at affecting Trump’s decision last month to withdraw US troops from Syria.

The attack occurred nearly a month after Trump confounded his own national security team with the surprise decision on Dec. 19 to withdraw all 2,000 US troops from Syria, declaring ISIS bad boy group had been defeated there.

ISIS grabbed credit for Wednesday’s attack.

Manbij is controlled by US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a militia allied to the US-backed Kurdish YPG, which last month invited Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
into the area around the town to forestall a potential Ottoman Turkish assault.

Ankara deems the YPG faceless myrmidons linked to the Kurdish PKK movement that has waged a decades-long insurgency on Ottoman Turkish soil.

Erdogan and Trump agreed to accelerate and continue discussions between their chiefs of staff regarding a safe zone in the area, the statement said.

Posted by:Fred

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