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Erdogan: Turkish Forces Are In Syria To End Assad's Rule
RT News ^ | November 29, 2016

Posted on 11/29/2016 9:59:20 AM PST by Fennie

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the Turkish Army has entered Syria to end the rule of Syrian President Bashar Assad, whom the accused of terrorism and causing the deaths of thousands of Syrians.

"We entered [Syria] to end the rule of the tyrant al-Assad who terrorizes with state terror. [We didn't enter] for any other reason," the Turkish president said at the first Inter-Parliamentary Jerusalem Platform Symposium in Istanbul, as quoted by Hurriyet daily.

Erdogan said that Turkey has no territorial claims in Syria, but instead wants to hand over power to the Syrian population, adding that Ankara is seeking to restore "justice."

"Why did we enter? We do not have an eye on Syrian soil. The issue is to provide lands to their real owners. That is to say we are there for the establishment of justice," he said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: assad; erdogan; obama; russia; syria; trump; turkey
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1 posted on 11/29/2016 9:59:20 AM PST by Fennie
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To: Fennie

Yeah, that’s going to end well.


2 posted on 11/29/2016 10:01:37 AM PST by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: Fennie

Pot calling kettle black? What’s his long range goal?


3 posted on 11/29/2016 10:01:58 AM PST by The Westerner (None Dare Call It Treason)
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To: Fennie

The window for Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the Soros Billionaires Cabal in Syria is rapidly closing.

If Trump and Putin team up to take out “Obama’s Terrorists”, Erdogan’s dream of reviving some version of the Greater Turkish Empire is over.


4 posted on 11/29/2016 10:02:57 AM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Fennie

Sounds good but....................................


5 posted on 11/29/2016 10:03:39 AM PST by Logical me
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To: Fennie

Please, make it happen, Syria-Turkish war, may they blow each other to hell.


6 posted on 11/29/2016 10:04:27 AM PST by lavaroise (s)
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To: The Westerner
What’s his long range goal?

Poking the Bear. With Assad out Russia loses it's base in the Med.

7 posted on 11/29/2016 10:04:38 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Fennie

Turkey has no right to invade Syria. Other countries there who DO have permission to be there have a right to MOAB or nuke invading ground forces from Turkey!


8 posted on 11/29/2016 10:04:40 AM PST by Future Useless Eater (Congress: Add clarification that CO2 is a PLANT FOOD, not a pollutant covered by the Clean Air Act)
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To: Fennie

So Turkey is prepared to fight real Russian troops with real fur hats over Syria? That should be interesting.


9 posted on 11/29/2016 10:06:29 AM PST by thorvaldr
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To: The Westerner

Qatar promised ergodan trillions for allowing the pipeline thru Syria and turkey to Europe. Syria said no. It’s all about pipelines.


10 posted on 11/29/2016 10:07:14 AM PST by Future Useless Eater (Congress: Add clarification that CO2 is a PLANT FOOD, not a pollutant covered by the Clean Air Act)
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To: Fennie

Bad move.....Russia wasn’t too happy with you shooting down their plane.


11 posted on 11/29/2016 10:07:46 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Tijeras_Slim

With Turkey attacking Syria, Russia then is forced to attack Turkish forces. Turkey, a member of Nato then calls for Nato Article 5 (?) to have Nato comes to its aid and voila! WW4!


12 posted on 11/29/2016 10:09:29 AM PST by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: Fennie

Ergodan’s timetable for doing this now is the ISIS fighters in Alleppo were crushed yesterday


13 posted on 11/29/2016 10:10:17 AM PST by Future Useless Eater (Congress: Add clarification that CO2 is a PLANT FOOD, not a pollutant covered by the Clean Air Act)
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To: Fennie

We need to either withdraw from NATO, or kick Turkey out of NATO fast.


14 posted on 11/29/2016 10:10:22 AM PST by Dogbert41 (All the days of my life were written in your book before there was one of them!)
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To: abigkahuna

I should hope NATO would not come to rescue an invader who runs into trouble while invading a sovereign neighbor country


15 posted on 11/29/2016 10:12:14 AM PST by Future Useless Eater (Congress: Add clarification that CO2 is a PLANT FOOD, not a pollutant covered by the Clean Air Act)
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To: The Westerner
His long range goal is to recreate on some level Turkish dominance of the region and Sunni Islam that was lost with the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire following WWI. Assad is a client of Iran and Russia. The roots of Turkish enmity with both are centuries deep.

If this adventure puts Turkey neck deep in s#!+ and they try to invoke the NATO treaty things could get interesting very quickly.

16 posted on 11/29/2016 10:13:42 AM PST by katana
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To: Fennie

And Russian forces are in Syria to sustain it.


17 posted on 11/29/2016 10:14:15 AM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat)
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To: Dogbert41

Let it dissolve. That should have been done in 1992.


18 posted on 11/29/2016 10:14:44 AM PST by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: Fennie

Sounds like a total Cluster you-know-what.

There will be so many nations, factions and terrorist groups fighting they will need a scorecard to track who is fighting whom.


19 posted on 11/29/2016 10:17:57 AM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: The Westerner

Erdogan wants to be the Sultan or Caliph of the new Islamic Caliphate.


20 posted on 11/29/2016 10:18:13 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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