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The Grand Turk
The Latest: Erdogan: Safe zone to have 12 observation posts
2019-10-19
[Ynet] 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...
says The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
's military will set up 12 observations posts along the border in northern Syria if a planned safe zone is established.

Speaking to foreign journalists in Istanbul on Friday, Erdogan said the safe zone would stretch from the city of Manbij to the Iraqi border.

"The safe zone we have expressed is not just between Ayn al-Arab (Kobane) and Tel Abyad," he said.

The Ottoman Turkish leader also told news hounds that 195 out of some 750 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....
gunnies who he said were set free by Syrian Kurdish fighters as Turkey launched its push into Syrian territory have been re-captured. Ottoman Turkish nationals among them would be imprisoned and tried in Turkey, Erdogan said.

Asked to comment on reports of atrocities committed by Turkey-backed Syrian forces, Erdogan said the Turkish army and intelligence service were investigating them.
Posted by:trailing wife

#6  the muzzinot line...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-10-19 13:33  

#5  Speaking to foreign journalists in Istanbul on Friday, Erdogan said the safe zone would stretch from the city of Manbij...
the Euphrates River in the East
... to the Iraqi border...
the Atlantic Ocean of our western satrapy of Al-Andalus.

Then one of his aides loosened the big turban pinching his head and Erdogan realized he was exposing his inner conqueror to the world.
Posted by: magpie   2019-10-19 12:08  

#4  I know let's resurrect the Ottoman Empire. Kick the Russians and Iranians out and put every fiefdom under the Turkish flag (except for Israel of course). Peace in the ME at last!
Posted by: jpal   2019-10-19 10:08  

#3  FOBs
Posted by: Frank G   2019-10-19 09:26  

#2  ^ with guns pointed in both directions....
Posted by: Mercutio   2019-10-19 08:32  

#1  Observation posts aka guard towers.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-10-19 08:03