Posted on 10/28/2015 2:00:35 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has confirmed that the Turkish military has attacked Kurdish fighters in northern Syria.
The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) said Turkey shot at its forces in the town of Tal Abyad on Sunday.
The YPG has been a key ally of the US in fighting the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in Syria.
Turkey fears advances by the YPG near its Syrian border could fuel separatist sentiments amongst Kurds in Turkey.
The attacks come amid increasing tensions in Turkey ahead of elections.
"We said the [YPG-aligned Democratic Union Party] PYD will not go west of the Euphrates and that we would hit it the moment it did," Mr Davutoglu told Turkish ATV television late Monday.
He gave no further details.
It is not the first time the YPG has said Turkey has attacked them. In July they said Turkey had shelled them in the Kurdish-held village of Zormikhar, which Turkey denied.
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Who is the other NATO party? NATO has reduced itself to mere janissaries for Moslems for the past fifteen years. I see the same issue you do, but I believe it is working as intended.
Also, Erdogan is doing exactly the same thing for which Goering was going to be hanged. But Turkish genocides are never genocide genocides, to borrow from the moral philosopher Whoopie Goldberg.
Damn Turkeys.
tErdogan stinks!
There is a chain of strange events around deliveries and non-deliveries of US weapons to Kurds. Those weapons are currently pointed toward ISIS... and toward Turkey, not without a reason (as you mentioned.) One can say that NATO (US) bullets are killing NATO (Turkish) soldiers. Guess who is paying for all that...
IMO, Turkey is one of those countries that should not be in NATO, for a large number of reasons. But... it served the need of the day (in 1960s) to conscript the Turks, no matter how heavy is the baggage.
I did some digging and see that now. You are quite correct, and I thank you for answering me. I wonder if President Eisenhower ever imagined we would allow things to get this upside down. I doubt it.
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