Posted on 02/01/2018 12:16:40 PM PST by C19fan
On Jan. 21, a day after Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch against Afrin in northern Syria, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim briefed media representatives about the campaign, putting special emphasis on one issue. The operation, he said, was being carried out with weapons and ammunition that were up to 75% Turkish made.
(Excerpt) Read more at al-monitor.com ...
Ankara uses Afrin campaign to showcase Turkish-made weapons
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Explains one reason they are not doing well, that and the purge of top military.
I have never used any but from what I have read and heard, they make some really nice small arms, and at good prices. Of course their stocks are “Turkish Walnut”.
I just finished a book yesterday on the history of Japan and their rise from an essentially feudal almost medieval country in the 1850s was nothing short of meteoric.
By 1900 they were a world power, putting a whipping on Russia. Their ships were copies of British and their rifles of the Mauser but still.
I think the Turks are putting out photos of destroyed German made Leopard II tanks as marketing for their own tank.
Ottoman version of brothers in arms.....
These Al-Qaeda terrorists are the actual Turkish army in assaulting Afrin..
Erdogan transferred thousands of al-Qaeda terrorists in buses from different areas to conquer Afrin..
CIA approved Al Qaeda, if they’re FSA fighters.
See the handiwork of Erdogan the Islamist and his NATO ally Army in Efrin
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3628255/posts
Mutlu Civiroglu; @mutludc
https://twitter.com/mutludc/status/959123765929107456
YPJ fighter Barin Kobani whose body was mutilated by Turkish-backed forces in Qurna village of Bilbil in #Afrin
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There are more links at the FR article at the beginning.
I saw that photo of Kobani.....freaking ISIS and Alqueda thugs are on the move with the Turk army which I suspect are just as ruthless.....
Kobani? back in 2014?
There are no ISIS or Turks there now.
We have an airstrip near too.
Recent photos are in Efrin.
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