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2019-01-15 The Grand Turk

US 'a highly unreliable' partner to Ankara: Turkish official

[Aljazeera] The United States has been "a highly unreliable partner" to Ankara as a result of inconsistencies in Washington's Syria policy, as well as its approach to Turkey and "terrorist" groups, a senior Turkish official told Al Jazeera.

"The problems and misunderstandings between the US and Turkey are results of the confusion and cacophony between the actors at different levels of the US administration and institutions," Yasin Aktay, who advises President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his AK Party, said on Monday in an interview.

Turkish and US officials have been trading barbs over Washington's support for Kurdish fighters in Syria and what will happen to the areas held by them in the north of the country after the planned US troop withdrawal.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top
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#1 "Et tu, Erdogan?"

Posted by magpie 2019-01-15 00:55|| 2019-01-15 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Talk about chutzpah!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-01-15 03:57|| 2019-01-15 03:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, we're long-time partners and allies *cough*4th ID*cough*

Seems to me, as long as the Kurds can play nice in Syria, both the US and the Russians might have a common interest in a de facto 'Greater Kurdistan', both as a barrier and as an annoyance to the Turks.

Posted by SteveS 2019-01-15 12:26|| 2019-01-15 12:26|| Front Page Top

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