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2019-10-23 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkey will resume Syria assault if US promises not met, warns Erdogan
[DAWN] Kurdish forces are continuing to withdraw in northeast Syria but The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
will resume its military assault there once a United States-brokered ceasefire expires on Tuesday if promises given by Washington are not kept, President Tayyip Erdogan said.

A five-day pause in Turkey's cross-border military offensive to allow the withdrawal of Kurdish YPG fighters from the border area expires at 10pm (local time) on Tuesday.

Turkey says Kurdish YPG militia forces must leave a "safe zone" it wants to establish along its border with northeast Syria. Ankara views the YPG as gunnies with links to Kurdish bully boyz operating in southeast Turkey.

"The withdrawal is continuing," Erdogan told news hounds at Ankara airport before flying to Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
on Syria.

Posted by Fred 2019-10-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top
 File under: Sublime Porte 

#1 How did this become the US meeting demands. Trump tell them too fuck off.
Posted by chris 2019-10-23 01:12||   2019-10-23 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm getting tired of scraping Yip-yip the First/Last off my shoe.
Posted by Mercutio 2019-10-23 09:39||   2019-10-23 09:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Turkey Syria offensive: Trump orders Turkey sanctions to be lifted
Posted by Skidmark 2019-10-23 12:39||   2019-10-23 12:39|| Front Page Top

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