Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Wed 04/24/2024 View Tue 04/23/2024 View Mon 04/22/2024 View Sun 04/21/2024 View Sat 04/20/2024 View Fri 04/19/2024 View Thu 04/18/2024
2019-10-07 The Grand Turk
Turkey ‘increases’ forces along Syria border ahead of potential incursion
[PRESSTV] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
has reportedly reinforced army units at its border with northern Syria ahead of a cross-border incursion against US-sponsored and Kurdish-led holy warriors operating in the region.

The number of Ottoman Turkish military patrols on the frontier with armored vehicles "increased" in the border town of Akcakale, across from Tal Abyad in Syria, the private DHA news agency reported on Sunday.

Continued from Page 1



The Ottoman Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency had earlier said that at least nine trucks carrying armored vehicles and a bus with military personnel on board had reached Akcakale in Sanliurfa Province late on Saturday.

President His Enormity, 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. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
on Saturday renewed his pledge to start an "air and ground" offensive against the holy warriors of the so-called People’s Protection Units (YPG).

"We have made our preparations, completed our operation plans," Erdogan said at a meeting of the ruling AK Party in Kizilcahamam in Ankara Province. "We have given the necessary orders."

The US has long been providing the YPG with arms, calling them a key partner in the purported fight against the terrorist group of ISIS
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
. Many observers, however, see the support as part Washington's plans to carve out a foothold in the Arab country.

That support has also angered Washington’s NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
ally Turkey, which views the YPG as a terrorist organization tied to the homegrown Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The PKK has been waging a war inside Turkey for decades.

On August 7, Turkey and the US reached an agreement on the establishment of a joint operation center in northern Syria after Ankara threatened to launch an operation against YPG holy warriors and push them away from the Ottoman Turkish border.

Turkey seeks to establish a 32-kilometer "safe zone" in northern Syria, and has stressed that it wants the YPG cleared from the region.

Posted by Fred 2019-10-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [17 views ]  Top
 File under: Sublime Porte 

#1 May get to see how many TOWs and Javelins the Kurds saved.
Posted by Elmavimp Glinegum6967 2019-10-07 05:34||   2019-10-07 05:34|| Front Page Top

02:23 Grom the Reflective
02:11 Grom the Reflective
01:44 Beldar+Uneter3543
01:38 Grom the Reflective
01:29 Grom the Reflective
01:28 Grom the Reflective
01:26 Grom the Reflective
01:23 Grom the Reflective
01:21 Grom the Reflective
01:18 Grom the Reflective
00:59 Glenmore









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com