[MIDDLEEASTEYE.NET] Ottoman Turkish 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...
has asked western powers to support The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
to bring an end to the war in Syria, casting Ankara as a stabilising force that defends democracy against the Syrian government amid a wave of attacks on Ottoman Turkish-held territories.In an op-ed published on Monday on the 10th anniversary of the Syrian uprising, Erdogan said Turkey has called for an inclusive political system that could address the Syrian people’s demand for human dignity while hosting more than three million Syrian refugees and creating safe zones in areas seized from terrorist groups such as the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
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| They’ve been singing the same song from the beginning: give us the Kurdish territory along our border in Syria to shelter all those Sunni Syrians fighting to overthrow the Alawite Assad regime, incidentally displacing the Kurds from their homes. |
"[The] most sensible option is to throw [western powers] weight behind Turkey and become part of the solution in Syria, at minimum cost and with maximum impact," he wrote.
"Our specific expectations are obvious. Primarily, we expect the West to adopt a clear position against YPG, the PKK’s Syrian branch, which attacks safe zones and plays into the hands of the regime. Instead, adequate support must go to the legitimate Syrian opposition as an investment in peace and stability."
Erdogan’s statements came as Syrian government forces, backed by Russia, targeted civilian areas and oil tankers in Jarablus and al-Babin in northern Syria on Sunday night, with ballistic missiles and rockets fired from the government-held Kuweires airbase, according to a statement by the Ottoman Turkish defence ministry.
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