[quote]Turkey will sweep the Democratic Party Union (PYD) from Manbij, a key Syrian city close to the Turkish border that has been liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, Turkish President [URL="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tag/Recep%20Tayyip%20Erdo%C4%9Fan"]Recep Tayyip Erdoğan[/URL] has vowed.
“We are determined to clear the PYD from Manbij,” Erdoğan said on Oct. 26, addressing a meeting of muhtars (neighborhood heads) at a meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara.
“We will do whatever necessary if they do not return back across the other side of the Euphrates river,” Erdoğan said.
Turkey, which considers the PYD and its armed wing People’s Protection Units (PYD) as a terrorist organization linked to the [URL="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tag/PKK"]Kurdistan Workers’ Party[/URL] (PKK), says the group should not pass to the west of the Euphrates river and rejects any option of cooperating with PKK-affiliated groups in fights against ISIL either in Syria or Iraq.
“There is an effort to form a terror corridor along the border but we will not permit this,” Erdoğan said.
“Let’s make a joint fight against terrorist organizations. But Aleppo belongs to the people of Aleppo, we must explain this ... making calculations over Aleppo would not be right,” he added.
His comments came after forces allied to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned Turkey against any advance toward their positions to the north and east of Aleppo, saying any such move would be met “decisively and with force.”
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu also vowed that Turkey’s operation in Syria would continue despite attacks from Syria near al-Bab.
“Such attacks will not stop us from combatting Daesh. The Euphrates Shield operation will continue. The operation will continue until al-Bab. We will make this region a safe haven for those who want to return,” Çavuşoğlu said on Oct. 26, also accusing the forces of al-Assad and [URL="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tag/Russia"]Russia[/URL] of having no intention to target ISIL militants.
“We know that regime in Syria and its supporters are not attacking Daesh. And they do not touch the YPG. Their only concern is [attacking] the moderate opposition, those who fight against Daesh. And they want al-Nusra to withdraw from Aleppo just because they want to recapture Aleppo,” he said.
Elaborating on recent statement by Hashdi Shaabi forces in Iraq for involving in an upcoming offensive in Tel Afar, Çavuşoğlu said [URL="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tag/Ankara"]Ankara[/URL] would not remain deaf to any attacks on the Turkmen community in the region.
He also said Turkey still expects a delegation from Baghdad in order to talk to Turkish forces in the military camp in Bashiqa region. Turkey has invited Iraqi side and the latter, but there has been no date set for the meeting yet, he added.
As the Turkish-backed FSA fighters push south towards al-Bab, an ISIL-held town 35 kilometers northeast of Aleppo, they face confrontation with both Kurdish and pro-Assad forces, whose frontlines lie close by.[/quote]
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Can we all agree that Turkey is clearly helping ISIS, and needs to be treated as a threat to stability in the region, and that they should not only be kicked out of NATO, but Erdogan needs to be ousted from power asap?
And people still say Turkey are "the good guys".
[QUOTE=Sgt.Kickass;51267315]And people still say Turkey are "the good guys".[/QUOTE]
Who, the Turks?
No.
Fuck you, Erdogan, you racist piece of shit. Your treatment of the kurds, providing aid to ISIS, and your continued denial of the armenian genocide is fucking disgusting. Someone should do the world a favor and blow up the presidental palace.
[QUOTE=DogGunn;51267326]Who, the Turks?[/QUOTE]
Crogamer
and slowly the turks show their true agenda as to why they feel so compelled to involve themselves in fighting ISIS.
The Turkish government is scum.
[QUOTE=Sgt.Kickass;51267315]And people still say Turkey are "the good guys".[/QUOTE]
I've yet to hear anyone but NATO allies say that, and that's just so they can keep their shit on turk soil to nuke the commies that aren't there anymore
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;51267433]I've yet to hear anyone but NATO allies say that, and that's just so they can keep their shit on turk soil to nuke the commies that aren't there anymore[/QUOTE]
If I remember correctly didn't the U.S. take their nukes out of Turkey after the "coup"?
[QUOTE=DETrooper;51267478]If I remember correctly didn't the U.S. take their nukes out of Turkey after the "coup"?[/QUOTE]
After our government said it was bullshit, I didn't hear anything more of it.
Haha good luck they couldn't take sheik isa near Afrin, they sure as hell won't take manbij.
Is this going to be like how the Russians took East Germany from Nazi Germany?
yo where all the assassination attempts at erdogan at
[QUOTE=Trebgarta;51268179]Arabs live in Manbij, not Kurds.
[editline]27th October 2016[/editline]
Even ignoring that it is not even close[/QUOTE]
Fun fact, just because YPG/J and SDF are Kurdish groups doesn't mean they shun non Kurds. Many of the SDF around the area of Manbij are almost entirely Arabs.
Hell, I think I read that an American went to fight for the Kurds.
[QUOTE=Megadave;51268209]Hell, I think I read that an American went to fight for the Kurds.[/QUOTE]
There a dozen of western volunteers possible nearing into the 100s many of them vets from Iraq and Afghanistan. They usually don't put them in with front line units they're great for training their units and for PR.
On the one hand, it'd probably be the right thing to "liberate" Turkey from this madness and put Erdogan to sleep. But on the other hand, it might spook Russia if NATO starts fighting in Istanbul. They might go "ConstantiNOPE" and at best ask America to cool it, or at worst make a pre-emptive strike of some sort.
[QUOTE=ironman17;51268504]On the one hand, it'd probably be the right thing to "liberate" Turkey from this madness and put Erdogan to sleep. But on the other hand, it might spook Russia if NATO starts fighting in Istanbul. They might go "ConstantiNOPE" and at best ask America to cool it, or at worst make a pre-emptive strike of some sort.[/QUOTE]
You seem to think that Russia wouldn't be in on it with us.
What could be done, is that the United States and Russia comes to an agreement that the Aegean Sea is under threat of Islamic expansionism, and that anything west of Sakarya and Bordum is to be liberated for commercial reasoning, with the new country being renamed Byzantium.
From this, we make an agreement with Russia to allow them to rename Istanbul to Constantinople, and allow them to renovate the Hagia Sophia and bring it back as a church, while also giving them permission to spread the Christian faith in the country, or hell make it the official religion.
Russian politicians and lawmakers have already voiced support for something similar to this, and with how Turkey has been pissing off the whole of NATO, we might as well kick them out and tag team it with Russia.
(please note: this is a joke idea)
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