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Ankara uses Afrin campaign to showcase Turkish-made weapons
Al-Monitor ^ | January 31, 2018 | Zülfikar Doğan

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 ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: turkey; weapons
Turkey makes everything from small arms to main battle tanks.
1 posted on 02/01/2018 12:16:40 PM PST by C19fan
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Ankara uses Afrin campaign to showcase Turkish-made weapons

Explains one reason they are not doing well, that and the purge of top military.


2 posted on 02/01/2018 12:31:23 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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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.


3 posted on 02/01/2018 12:32:17 PM PST by yarddog
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I think the Turks are putting out photos of destroyed German made Leopard II tanks as marketing for their own tank.


4 posted on 02/01/2018 12:32:29 PM PST by C19fan
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To: PIF
Al-Qaeda jihadi terrorists are side by side with Erdogans special forces in Efrin..! This is the

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..


5 posted on 02/01/2018 12:37:35 PM PST by caww
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CIA approved Al Qaeda, if they’re FSA fighters.


6 posted on 02/01/2018 2:26:24 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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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

There are more links at the FR article at the beginning.


7 posted on 02/01/2018 4:08:42 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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Kurds forced to move caves to get away from Erdogans ISIS/Al-quida killers and his bombings....


8 posted on 02/01/2018 7:42:27 PM PST by caww
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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.....


9 posted on 02/01/2018 7:44:24 PM PST by caww
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Kobani? back in 2014?

There are no ISIS or Turks there now.

We have an airstrip near too.

Recent photos are in Efrin.


10 posted on 02/01/2018 7:48:03 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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