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Congress makes Afrin part of Turkish province
Ahval ^ | Mar 31 2018 | none stated

Posted on 03/31/2018 11:26:27 AM PDT by Texas Fossil

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However, according to international law, the province must continue to follow Syrian law as it remains legally part of Syria.

And many young Afrin women are kidnapped, raped, disappeared, and sold as sex slaves. But Turkey is in charge, what could possibly go wrong?

1 posted on 03/31/2018 11:26:27 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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Syria Ping
2 posted on 03/31/2018 11:27:05 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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Turkey annexes Afrin. I guess this is just another form of NATO expansion.

Wow.

3 posted on 03/31/2018 11:30:56 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Islam delenda est.)
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...elected a 35-person assembly made up of 24 Kurds... Ethnic Turks loathe Kurds, surprised at the "diversity" of the assembly. But yeah, what possibly could go wrong?
4 posted on 03/31/2018 11:37:58 AM PDT by hughesm1 (The left is at war with natural law, human nature.)
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To: Texas Fossil

I have a nagging sense that the struggle for Afrin is not over.


5 posted on 03/31/2018 11:39:03 AM PDT by ichabod1 (I'm tired of living in the kinder gentler soviet union.)
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I am surprised. I thought Turkey would just kill them all like they did the Armenians (1.5 million.) Maybe they thought this would be cheaper. John Bolton understands the situation so mwybe he can advise Trump to dump Tourkry from NATO. That experiment didn’t work.


6 posted on 03/31/2018 11:45:40 AM PDT by richardtavor
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This robbery will never be forgotten, but at least the Kurds have a place they can call their own, for a time.


7 posted on 03/31/2018 11:58:47 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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The Armenians were just one of the last victims (and maybe the most numerous) but the Turks had a long history of enslaving and killing people. Erdogan is just getting back to their roots.

I wonder which version of Islam will be favored in this province--Afrin Liberation Theology?

8 posted on 03/31/2018 12:00:36 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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I am sensing American treason towards the Kurds, with Turkey, Russia and Assad having given their mutual agreement to Turkey’s annexation of a northern swath of Syria, leaving Syria’s Kurds in the hands of Erdogan, and all of it given a wink and & nod by Trump.

Meanwhile we are going to keep throwing away our lives and treasure on helping the child-rapist Afghans.


9 posted on 03/31/2018 12:06:48 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Former Proud Canadian

The Ottoman Empire is reassembling.


10 posted on 03/31/2018 12:29:49 PM PDT by arthurus (1Ili)
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Türkiye was a vital piece of the bulwark facing the USSR. When the USSR went away Türkiye should have been gıven a nice party then bid adieu.
11 posted on 03/31/2018 12:33:22 PM PDT by arthurus (4)
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To: Texas Fossil

so if Turkey can’t go West and join the EU it plans on Going South ,LOL


12 posted on 03/31/2018 12:33:31 PM PDT by butlerweave
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In hindsight, maybe we should have just let the USSR have Turkey.


13 posted on 03/31/2018 12:34:02 PM PDT by dfwgator
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I thought Turkey would just kill them all like they did the Armenians (1.5 million.)


That would have forced Trump’s hand.


14 posted on 03/31/2018 12:38:50 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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None of this is surprising....Turkey has made it's intentions known for sometime in what they want..by force of necessary.

As for the kidnapping and rape of girls and women....that is unfortunately the muslim mindset of conflicts in the middle east who operate with medieval islamic mindsets.

15 posted on 03/31/2018 12:44:36 PM PDT by caww
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No. That would have given the USSR an open road to flood through the Middle East. I don’t think Israel could have survived that.


16 posted on 03/31/2018 12:50:12 PM PDT by arthurus (l;)
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And, how, exactly, is Turkey a “friend” of Israel?


17 posted on 03/31/2018 12:54:05 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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Antakya is the capital of Hatay province- which Turkey stole from Syria in 1939...

How appropriate!


18 posted on 03/31/2018 12:54:10 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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Astute observation. They were a necessary evil when NATO was formed, but never contributed mucu, except for allowing our missiles and the bases. Now, we can launch missiles from anywhere in the world and there is less need for Incirclik...


19 posted on 03/31/2018 1:33:42 PM PDT by richardtavor
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Thank you McCrazy for arming your favorite “moderate” jihadists which destabilized Syria


20 posted on 03/31/2018 2:01:21 PM PDT by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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