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Eugene

(61,899 posts) Fri Dec 21, 2018, 10:05 AM Dec 2018

Turkey's Erdogan delays operation against Kurdish forces in Syria

Source: Washington Post

By Erin Cunningham December 21 at 8:47 AM

ISTANBUL — Turkey will delay a planned offensive against Kurdish forces in Syria's northeast, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday, citing talks with the U.S. president and other officials.

Erdogan said that he welcomed President Trump's decision — announced Wednesday — to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria, where they are partnered with Kurdish-led fighters to battle the Islamic State.

Turkey sees Kurdish forces both at home and in Syria as a threat to its national security and warned of an impending offensive to rout them from the Turkish border.

“We decided last week to launch a military incursion into the east of the Euphrates River and shared that information with the public,” Erdogan said at a meeting of the Turkish Exporters Assembly in Istanbul.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/turkeys-erdogan-delays-operation-against-kurdish-forces-in-syria/2018/12/21/ea505452-418f-4d98-bc7d-7ae527c46d18_story.html

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Turkey's Erdogan delays operation against Kurdish forces in Syria (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2018 OP

WTF does that mean? watoos Dec 2018 #1

He's doing this to call attention to Trump cowering to him underpants Dec 2018 #2

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The Latest: Turkey says pledges aided US Syria troop pullout Eugene Dec 2018 #3

This article is freaking Russian propaganda. watoos Dec 2018 #4

I thought I read that the Kurds were considering a release of Ink Addict Dec 2018 #6

Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2018 #8

erdogan putting a time table on genocide. lovely. Javaman Dec 2018 #5

watoos

(7,142 posts)

1. WTF does that mean?

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Dec 21, 2018, 10:12 AM

Dec 2018

Erdogan is going to let the Kurds (our allies) live a little bit longer.

underpants

(182,826 posts)

2. He's doing this to call attention to Trump cowering to him

Reply to watoos (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 21, 2018, 10:24 AM

Dec 2018

That's my take anyway

It's been reported that Erdogan told Trump to get US forces out of the way or else. This partially explains the sudden move by Trump.

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Eugene

(61,899 posts)

3. The Latest: Turkey says pledges aided US Syria troop pullout

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Dec 21, 2018, 10:41 AM

Dec 2018

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: Turkey says pledges aided US Syria troop pullout

an hour ago

BERLIN (AP) — The Latest on developments in and related to Syria (all times local):

2:25 p.m.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the United States decided to its withdraw troops from Syria after he reassured U.S. President Donald Trump that Turkey could eradicate the remnants of Islamic State group from the country with just logistical help from Washington.

Addressing a business meeting in Istanbul Friday, Erdogan said Turkey would work on plans to conduct operations to eliminate both IS and Syrian Kurdish militants from the region.

“We will be working on our operational plans to eliminate IS elements, which are said to remain intact in Syria, in line with our conversation with President Trump.”

“We will adopt an operational style geared toward eliminating (Kurdish militia) and (IS) remnants,” he added.

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watoos

(7,142 posts)

4. This article is freaking Russian propaganda.

Reply to Eugene (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 21, 2018, 11:17 AM

Dec 2018

The Kurdish militia are our allies. We worked with them to kill ISIS. We supported their ground forces with our air forces.

This article is saying that Turkey plans to kill our Kurdish allies.

Am I wrong about this?