... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
sought to build cooperation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. 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 Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...on Friday over military operations in Syria, as
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
attempts to create a border "safe zone" free of 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....
and the Kurdish YPG militia.
Erdogan, referring to Islamic State’s remaining stronghold, told a joint Moscow news conference with the Russian President "Of course, the real target now is Raqqa".
Turkey is seeking a role for its military in the advance on Raqqa, but the United States is veering towards enlisting the Kurdish YPG militia ‐ something contrary to Ankara’s aim of banishing Kurdish fighters eastwards across the Euphrates river.
Turkey considers the YPG the Syrian arm of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that has been fighting an insurrection on Turkish soil for 30 years. Washington, like Ankara, considers the PKK a terrorist group, but it backs the YPG.
Russian-backed forces of Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
are also operating in the north of the country, close to Turkish borders. Washington and Moscow are concerned fast-moving military developments could lead to serious festivities between Turkish forces and the YPG.
"It should now be accepted that a terrorist organization cannot be defeated with another one," Erdogan said, referring to the enlistment of YPG by the United States to fight Islamic State.
"As a country that has been battling terror for 35 years, terrorist organizations like ISIS (Islamic State), the YPG, Nusra front and others are organizations we face at all times."