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Erdogan threatens military action against US-backed forces fighting against the Islamic State

Dec 15, 2018 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

Not a friend. Not an ally. Turkey should be removed from NATO, and our international alliances reconfigured in light of the realities of the global jihad.

“Syrian Kurdish-led fighters take Hajin, last town held by ISIS,” by Bassem Mroue, Associated Press, December 14, 2018:

BEIRUT — U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led fighters captured the last town held by the Islamic State group on Friday, after three months of ferocious battles in the militants’ single remaining enclave in eastern Syria, activists and Kurdish officials said….

The Syrian Democratic Council, the political wing of the SDF, denounced Turkey’s threat of a military operation against the YPG and called on Syrians of all ethnic and religious groups to unite ahead of a possible Turkish attack.

Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan intensified his criticism of U.S. support for the Syrian Kurdish fighters, saying Friday that Turkey would clear the key northern town of Manbij. Over the summer, the two NATO allies had struck a “road map” to Manbij of the YPG, which Turkey considers a terror organization linked to an insurgency within its own borders.

The Turkish presidency released a statement Friday saying Erdogan spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump and they agreed on the “need for more effective coordination” in Syria. Erdogan reiterated “Turkey’s legitimate security concerns” regarding the YPG.

Erdogan argued the U.S. has not kept its promises to push the YPG east of the Euphrates River.

“If you don’t take them out, we will also enter Manbij,” he said. American troops are stationed in Manbij, which was cleared of ISIS in 2016, and Washington and Ankara recently started joint patrols around the town….

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  1. mortimer says

    Dec 15, 2018 at 11:38 am

    Erdogan is planning a GENOCIDE against the Kurdish people.

    The RACIST TURKISH REGIME of Erdogan pretends that there is a TURKISH RACE, when in fact, most Turks are highly heterogeneous, being descendants of 40 generations of SEX SLAVES RAPED by jihadist SLAVE MONGERS.

    This is what the Turkish law calls “TURKISHNESS”. “Turkishness” is actually SEX SLAVE HETEROGENEITY.

    • Brian hoff says

      Dec 15, 2018 at 10:47 pm

      What a racist Islamoprobic rant from a racist.

      • b.a. freeman says

        Dec 16, 2018 at 4:38 pm

        seriously, Brian? is this sarcasm, or do U really mean that? BTW, i assume that U mean
        “IslamopHobic”
        not
        “IslamopRobic”
        although, if U are being sardonic and i am being dense (a not-unusual circumstance, i fear), the latter is actually pretty funny!

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 16, 2018 at 5:01 pm

          b.a. freedman, “Brian hoff” posted here for many years as “DefenderofIslam”. There is nothing ironic about his comments here–he is just shockingly illiterate.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 16, 2018 at 4:59 pm

        I see that “Brian hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–thinks that taking a stand against sex slavery and genocide is “racist” and “Islamoprobic”.

    • J D S says

      Dec 16, 2018 at 3:25 pm

      Well put Mortimer..which holds true for mode Muslim countries…Their so called race is so mixed up they have no race …everything from slave rape breeding to in breeding….it’s a wonder that they are not so genetically broken that they have not reverted to tree dwellers.

  2. hurrdurr says

    Dec 15, 2018 at 12:05 pm

    The insane, ethno-fascist, genocidal Turkish regime is the most dangerous rogue state on the planet.

    The West’s alliance with this stain on humanity, along with similar Islamic shitholes such as Azerbaijan, cannot be forgiven.

    The West needs to immediately cease its wishy-washy defense of jihadists worldwide, starting by sanctioning, divesting, and blockading Turkey, Azerbaijan, the so-called ‘Palestinian authority’, Pakistan, Qatar, and Iran. It needs to wholeheartedly support the full and unimpeded sovereignty of Cyprus, Armenia, India, and Israel in the face of their respective jihadist onslaughts.

    One can only wonder how far and how terrible events must go before the powers that be realize this and start making policy that reflects reality.

    • Guy Forester says

      Dec 15, 2018 at 4:38 pm

      Without Putin backing him Erdogan is nothing but another Mussolini without Hitler. He is only a threat to his weak neighbors and his own citizens without Russian missiles, air defense, and nukes backing him up. Russia will tire of his antics quickly. We should have dropped this idiot like a hot rock ASAP (at least a hot potato is good for food when allowed to cool, plus a little butter, or chives, etc.).

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 15, 2018 at 9:51 pm

        +1

      • b.a. freeman says

        Dec 16, 2018 at 4:43 pm

        actually, Guy, erdogan could be used for a**wipe, so he *is* good for something; the problem is that he is also dangerous, and as hurrdurr notes, NATO must wipe this klingon off its collective a**.

  3. Indiana Tom says

    Dec 15, 2018 at 12:27 pm

    I think Erdogan is more concerned about the Kurds than ISIS.
    At one time, the Western Powers were going to give Kurds a homeland. That land kept shrinking as negotiations continued and went into nothing.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 15, 2018 at 9:52 pm

      Erdogan has also been playing footsie with ISIS since the beginning.

      • vlad says

        Dec 16, 2018 at 4:14 am

        And got richer from selling the OIL, that isis stole from Syria, billions of barrels

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 16, 2018 at 5:08 pm

          True.

  4. Texan Forever says

    Dec 15, 2018 at 1:31 pm

    If Erdogan messes with the US he will get his ass handed to him.
    .

    • b.a. freeman says

      Dec 16, 2018 at 5:38 pm

      he is already messing with us, Texan, which is what makes the current situation so frustrating. if one wished to find a real-world case of the blind leading the blind, one would be hard-pressed to find a better example than the reality-free State Department or the Department of Defense here in the u.s., both busily ignoring the danger from this monster. everybody whines about putin being a thug, and although he *IS* a thug, at least he pays attention to the nukes and military we have. jihadis like erdogan don’t pay any attention to them, and have every intention of destroying us. keep in mind that all he must do (or any pious muslim leader, for that matter) is to keep urging us to accept more muslims into our nation. every large group of muslims is guaranteed to have around 10% of its members be pious, which means 10% of the desire to kill kuffar (non-muslims), and our leaders *I*G*N*O*R*E* it!!!! we are led by FOOLS!!! and the bottom line is that erdogan and other pious muslims WILL win, because we aren’t trying to do ANYTHING to defend ourselves. worse yet, if citizens here who understand the danger attract enough attention, the left will also take notice and ruin their lives.

      WE ARE LOSING, and the nazis of the left are winning! a republic only works when most of the people obey most of the law most of the time, but the left makes a mockery of the law; they know that honest citizens will obey the law, yet they will accuse us of nit-picking violations at every turn, all while they constantly break and flout the law. as a free man, i REFUSE to break the law and take part in the destruction of our republic, but the republic is on its last legs, because the lying left has destroyed it by teaching bulls**t to our children. more than half of u.s. voters see no problem with disrupting speeches by people with whom they disagree, because they believe that “wrong speech” should not be allowed to be uttered (it’s wrong, so why allow it to be spoken?). leftist thought leaders point to “islamophobes” (an invented bulls**t word) and call them wrong, which thereby justifies silencing them – up to and including ensuring that they can never again hold ANY job ANYWHERE. yeah, that’s free speech … in any case, it’s too late to recover, and the republic is like wile e. coyote just after he has run off the edge of a cliff while holding a 16-ton anvil; the end is in sight, and it’s too late to prevent it. therefore, all while obeying the law, i encourage every free citizen who values freedom and respects others even should he disagree with them to set aside shelf-stable food and water, along with armaments and ammunition (where legal; some people’s republics in the u.s. don’t allow sheeple to own arms, so be legal and buy and store them in other jurisdictions, or acquire things that are legal, but *can* be used as weapons), so that once martial law is imposed and the muslim wars begin (along with roundups of “troublemakers” like those who write articles and post comments here), the civil war can begin, with patriots taking back control of our nation. BTW, when U capture a hard-core leftist or a pious muslim during the civil war, U should not kill him, but instead hold him for trial after the war. not all will actually be complicit, and unlike the supposed command of amalric at beziers (“kill them all; God knows his own”) concerning sects of christians, we should wait for the truth to come out. after all, it is the left and islam that hate the truth; *WE* should defend it and seek it out, and that means holding off until the war is over.

  5. SB says

    Dec 15, 2018 at 2:08 pm

    Three words: pound sand, bitch.

  6. Guy Forester says

    Dec 15, 2018 at 4:55 pm

    Another legend in his own mind.

    Obviously, the US has still not learned to stay out of these Muslim v Muslim battles. We have become nothing more than mercenaries for the loudest screamer and highest bidder. NONE of these countries are our friends or allies.

    When Nasser kicked off this nonsense in the 1950’s, even Eisenhower rolled over and played dead for these wannabe rulers of the world. As far as I am concerned, we lost our best opportunity to squelch this crap back when Arafat started his antics after the six day war. Once he had his goon squads hijack any aircraft with US citizens on board, LBJ should have had the Marines hunt this SOB down and bring him back in shackles to an ADMIRALTY court for piracy.

    Instead, LBJ was too busy destroying VN and our troops trying to make a name for himself. Just my opinion, for what that is worth (not much I suppose).

    • Watto35 says

      Dec 16, 2018 at 4:30 am

      Eisenhower’s biggest mistake was threatening the British and the French when we took the Suez Canal. If he’d backed us and paid us the situation now would be very different. No 1967 war, no Palestinian problem, no Lebanon problem and Saddam Hussein would have been more careful.

      • b.a. freeman says

        Dec 16, 2018 at 6:03 pm

        U are correct, Watto; the blind stupidity goes back for generations. at first, non-muslims quickly learned that islam was a pirate cult. muslims were the ones teaching its depravity, but after centuries of fighting a losing battle, the west finally managed to stop islam. the people who then bothered to study islam knew that it was evil, but didn’t see it as a threat, because the ottomans were weak and tottering by the beginning of the 19th century. because the information was not spread, the left was able to use pious muslims as a proxy army. once attacks by pious muslims on innocents become as common as buying bread, society will begin to collapse, and the government will be cheered by all when it declares martial law. during the enforced silence of martial law, the left, which *always* controls the government, regardless of what the leading party is called – EVERY government of the free world nowadays – will be free to assassinate any government official who is obstinate and attempts to block the secret imposition of a people’s republic, and the left will be in permanent control. and this goes for EVERY free nation today, i might add.

        at this point, the constitution in the u.s. offers some protection, but that protection is only as good as the enforcement by the government. more than HALF the voters supported ms. clinton in the last presidential election, and few, if any, protest the silencing of conservatives simply for being conservative (and therefore wrong by definition). if the majority of citizens don’t understand freedom or how to protect it, it will be easy for liars to seize control, even here; mr. obama and his officials flouted the law regularly, which means that in reality, americans are little more free than those living in britain; one might call those nations amrikistan and UKistan now.

        when the law is a “living” thing, it means what the rulers say that it means. that is how nazi germany, the communist USSR, the communist PRC, north korea, and pol pot’s cambodia, among many other nations, were ruled, and anybody who thinks that history and “dead white guys” are going to make commies change their minds are sadly mistaken. had the u.s. instead backed up the UK and france at suez, there would likely be far fewer problems today, although it would still be causing the majority of muslims pain. islam is a mind disease, and when its victims are quarantined within their own s**thole nations, the rest of us can live safely. unfortunately, the left must also be consigned to the s**tter of history, but the human race is still constipated by that load of s**t. and this time, the constipation may be fatal.

  7. Max says

    Dec 15, 2018 at 5:49 pm

    Only a fool would consider Erdogan a friend of the West. He is allied with the Russians, Iranians, Syrians, Venezuela and China. The only reason for him to remain in Nato is to pass Nato’s secrets to his real friends.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 15, 2018 at 9:53 pm

      True, Max. Turkey should have been kicked out of NATO long since.

  8. Jayell says

    Dec 16, 2018 at 1:48 am

    Is Turkey still in the queue to join the EU? If so, what a good job the UK is leaving! Erdogan seems to have got himself a bit of a reputation for presuming some sort of right to dictate what everyone else does within their own borders apropos islam and muslims within their borders that I hate to imagine what might happen if he and his lot got their feet under the table in Brussels. The black flag of ISIS would certainly fly over every capital city in Europe.

    • Rufolino says

      Dec 16, 2018 at 4:23 am

      As things stand now, it is extremely unlikely Turkey will be admitted to the EU.

      But in the future, as the Islamic influence in Europe grows, this may well change…and Turkey will be admitted.

      • Dave says

        Dec 16, 2018 at 5:16 am

        Who in their right minds would admit Turkey into the EU? Anything to do with Islam should be avoided. It is nothing but bad news.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 16, 2018 at 5:10 pm

        Agree with your analysis, Rufolino–spot on.

    • b.a. freeman says

      Dec 16, 2018 at 6:18 pm

      AFAIK, Jayell, turkey is indeed still on track to join the EU. sadly, it doesn’t look like anything will come of brexit; perhaps ms. may might allow some kind of name change for the membership, but she and her commie ilk will not allow the UK to really leave. after all, she is one of the smart people, and she knows better than the stupid stinking masses who had to attend public schools how to run things. she should not have to listen to them, she most likely believes, and consequently, will not do so. it’s *so* convenient when U can make the law whatever U want!

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