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Turkey Building Homes in Syria for People Fleeing Idlib
2020-01-28
[AnNahar] 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...
said Sunday that work was underway to construct homes inside Syria for people fleeing the war-torn country's last rebel-held stronghold.

"In an area 30-40 kilometers deep in Syria close to our border, we have planned to build, not a tent city, but homes, and the construction has begun," Erdogan said.
That would be in the cities and villages where they recently drove out the Kurds. How generous of them.
"We want our Idlib brothers and sisters to take shelter in winter here," he told news hounds during a presser in Istanbul.

Ottoman Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on January 15 mentioned talks with Russia about a proposed "safe zone" but there has been little detail offered by officials or media.

But Ottoman Turkish NGO the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) said Thursday that work had started in a bid to build 10,000 homes for displaced residents in a village in the Idlib region five kilometers (three miles) from the Ottoman Turkish border.

IHH said 450,000 people had fled toward the border in the past five months.

Erdogan said he was frequently talking to Russian 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...
about "ensuring the safety of civilians" in Idlib.

He warned Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
last month that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
could not handle a new wave of refugees alone since the country already hosts over 3.6 million Syrian refugees.

Syrian regime attacks on southern Idlib have increased since December, leaving more than 358,000 people displaced, according to United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
figures.

Russian air strikes in the region killed eight civilians Thursday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

This was despite a ceasefire sponsored by Damascus ally Russia and rebel supporter Turkey earlier this month intended to halt the violence.
Related:
Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH): 2015-03-29 Turkish NGO rescues 2 Czech women kidnapped by al-Qaeda in 2013
Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH): 2014-08-12 Turkish Group Plans New Flotilla To Challenge Gaza Blockade
Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH): 2014-05-23 Turkish Aid Group Opposes Dropping Legal Action Over Israeli Raid
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