Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today issued an angry condemnation after US envoy to he ISIS War Brett McGurk visited the Syrian Kurdish city of Kobani, asking how he could trust the US while they associate with the “terrorists in Kobani.”
Erdogan went on to warn that the US is ultimately going to have to choose whether its partner is Turkey or the Syrian Kurds. The State Department didn’t directly address this, simply saying they view the Kurdish PKK as “a terrorist organization.”
The US has long said that of the PKK, but is overtly backing the Kurdish YPG in northern Syria. Turkey insists that the two are essentially the same group, and at times Erdogan and other top Turkish leaders have also claimed the PKK and YPG are the same as ISIS.
Erdogan’s government has loudly opposed YPG gains into ISIS territory across northern Syria, and warned they consider the Euphrates River a “red line” which the Kurds must never cross, even though that border area is all controlled by ISIS. The YPG has talked up attacks on this area, and Turkey has threatened to intervene against them.
Kurds, every time.
Will the US blink? Israel wants Assad gone, the US will stick to regime
change.
Erdogan: US Must Choose Between Turkey and Syrian Kurds
OK. Goodbye Erdogan, you murderous asshole. Hello, Kurds!
Sure Mr. Erdogan. Our President will flip a coin. What are you calling, heads or tails? Kidding aside, you are way out of line.
If he said the United States must choose between Turkey (a NATO ally), and Israel it would be news.
Erdy seems to be of the self imposed high opinion of himself that he gets to dictate anything to anyone.States who openly sponsor terror do not get to dictate anything. He should just be thankful NATO is on his side for his crimes or he would be locked up in a Russian prison by now or sleeping with the fish.
Oh don’t worry ISIS supporter Erdogan, the U.S. doesn’t have you in their plans once they carve out a piece of land illegally from Syria. These neo-con maniacs do what they want and when they want. Like Saddam, you wrongly assumed that they were friends of yours. Nope, you are cannon fodder.