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Turkey Strikes Kurdish Positions in Northern Syria
Voice of America (from AP) ^ | October 28, 2018 11:49 AM | Associate Press

Posted on 10/28/2018 12:45:38 PM PDT by Texas Fossil

ISTANBUL, TURKEY —

The Turkish army struck Kurdish targets in northern Syria east of the Euphrates River on Sunday.

Turkey's official Anadolu news agency said that artillery strikes hit positions belonging to the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, in Zor Moghar.

The village in northern Aleppo's countryside is across the Euphrates that separates Turkey-backed Syrian opposition forces and the YPG, which Turkey considers a terror organization linked to an insurgency within its own borders.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Kurdish Hawar news agency also reported the shelling, saying Turkish artillery targeted other villages east of the Euphrates as well. Hawar said there were no reports of casualties.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly warned of expanding military operations along the Syrian border to clear it of "terror."

The Observatory said the rare shelling in the villages near Kobani, a stronghold of the Kurdish fighters, came while Kurdish fighters were on high alert following Turkish threats.

(Excerpt) Read more at voanews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: erdogan; kurdistan; kurds; receptayyiperdogan; strikes; syria; turkey
There is no evidence that YPG/YPJ are terrorists. Turkey makes up whatever they need to justify their actions.

There was a meeting of Turkey, Russia, Germany, France in Istanbul yesterday concerning Syria.

Would like to have been a fly on the wall on that meeting room.

1 posted on 10/28/2018 12:45:38 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
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Syria Ping
2 posted on 10/28/2018 12:46:32 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Kurdish Separatists = Terrorists


3 posted on 10/28/2018 1:01:15 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Turkish Erdoganists=Muslim brotherhood


4 posted on 10/28/2018 1:12:24 PM PDT by Tailback
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To: Tailback

Muslim brotherhood = all muslims


5 posted on 10/28/2018 1:13:28 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

NO


6 posted on 10/28/2018 1:37:53 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: PIF

Kurds = YPG/YPJ

They have never advocated breaking up Syria. They are trying to negotiate with Damascus. And have from the beginning.

They want some autonomy.

Game is not over yet.


7 posted on 10/28/2018 1:40:27 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

He was asking why they are terrorists to Turks - I was replying how the turks see kurds


8 posted on 10/28/2018 1:41:31 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Tailback

Yep, Turkey = ISIS, Nusara (al Qaeda), FSA Jihadi Terrorists and Muslim Brotherhood Terrorists. Very bad cocktail.


9 posted on 10/28/2018 1:42:06 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: PIF

Oh, yes.

But the reality of how Turks see the Kurds? They want to kill them all literally or by cultural genocide.

It is Turks who have always practiced Massacre and Genocide upon anyone they chose to act. Even during the Ottoman Empire.


10 posted on 10/28/2018 1:44:04 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

The Turks are pigs and Erdogan is the chief pig.


11 posted on 10/28/2018 1:56:05 PM PDT by ZULU (Jeff Sessions should be tried for sedition.)
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To: ZULU

Yep. He is an Evil Islamist. Just like ISIS.


12 posted on 10/28/2018 1:57:24 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

The Sultan in Waiting.


13 posted on 10/28/2018 2:10:48 PM PDT by ZULU (Jeff Sessions should be tried for sedition.)
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To: Texas Fossil

yeah i know the history.


14 posted on 10/28/2018 2:36:10 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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