Amusingly, the Turks (and Linda Graham) want to get NATO involved. I’m gonna guess that this will meet with shrugs from all NATO members, including Uncle Sam. My bet? Trump has no wish to help Turkey annex Syrian territory, given its encroachment on allied Kurdish territory in Syrian Kurdistan.
NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg spoke with Turkey’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu by phone, the Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu reported. Erdogan’s spokesman Ibrahim Kalin, who plays a senior role in foreign affairs, also spoke to U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, AP reported.
Turkey has been calling for the international community to help halt the Russian-backed offensive in Idlib as the humanitarian crisis there worsens. The offensive has already sent hundreds of thousands of civilians fleeing towards the border with Turkey. Huge numbers of people are sleeping in tent camps in freezing temperatures.
“The world is sitting on its hands and watching the destruction of Idlib by Assad, Iran, and the Russians,” U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said in a statement. “I very much appreciate Turkey’s intervention in Idlib. It is now time for the international community to establish a no-fly zone to save thousands of innocent men, women, and children from a horrible death.” ]
I really wish the people of South Carolina would wise up and boot out that fraud.
He is greatly concerned with Turkey’s border with Syria, but wants ours left open and advocates for amnesty for those who already broke in so his friends across the aisle can have a permanent majority and turn the USA over to the UN.