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| The Grand Turk |
| Ankara to US: Stop arming Kurds who use American weapons against Turkey |
| 2017-11-10 |
| [RUDAW.NET] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... called on the United States to stop arming Kurdish forces in Syria as the war against ISIS there is drawing to a conclusion and the Kurds are alleged to be using the US-supplied weapons against Turkey. Turkey’s Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli explained his country’s position in a conversation with US Defense Secretary James Mattis on Wednesday on the sidelines of the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... meeting in Brussels. Noting that ISIS is nearly defeated in Syria, Canikli told news hounds on Thursday that he "clearly told" Mattis that "the shipment of weapons should now end," according to Hurriyet Daily News. He said he also provided photographic evidence to Mattis that weapons supplied to the Syrian Kurdish forces, the People's Protection Units (YPG), had been used in a recent attack against In their meeting "Secretary Mattis acknowledged the threats posed to Turkey, and reiterated that the US will continue to stand with turkey in its fight against the PKK and all terrorist threats," according to a US read out. Ankara has repeatedly complained that the United States has aligned with Death Eaters in their backing of the YPG in Syria’s ground war against ISIS. Canikli said he provided evidence to Mattis that the YPG was under the same command as the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) ‐ designated a terrorist organization by both Turkey and the United States. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Ummm...Guns don't kill Turks, Kurds kill Turks. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-11-10 11:55 |