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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey, US discuss ways to enhance joint anti-ISIL fight |
| 2015-03-19 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Senior Turkish and U.S. diplomats have discussed ways to enhance cooperation in the fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the U.S. Embassy to Ankara has stated, reiterating that Washington does not foresee a role for Bashir al-Assad in the future of Syria. U.S. President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... 's special envoy General John Allen and his deputy Ambassador Brett McGurk were in Ankara to hold talks with Turkish Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioglu, read the statement issued by the embassy. Describing the talks as constructive, the statement quoted General Allen as welcoming ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's support in training vetted Syrian opposition, noting recent Turkish actions to increase border security and restrict the flow of imported muscle, and thanking Turkey for its generosity in hosting Syrian and Iraqi refugees. "General Allen reiterated that the United States' position on al-Assad has not changed. The United States believes that he has lost all legitimacy to govern, that conditions in Syria under his rule have led to the rise of ISIL and other terrorist groups, and that we continue to seek a negotiated political outcome to the Syrian conflict that does not in the end include al-Assad," it added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Have they brought up the point of Turkey to quit helping ISIS? |
| Posted by: chris 2015-03-19 02:59 |