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Erdogan says Turkey will destroy U.S.-backed Syria 'terror army'

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By Stuart WILLIAMS

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With USA weapons.

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Erdogan furthers his attack on democracy.

There are few moves by the administration I agree with, but this is one of them. The Kurds deserve their own country. They are one of the few people around the world without their own country. I believe our response is going to be that the Kurd territory is going to be carved out of lands from Syria and Iraq (wink-wink, nod-nod), but we shall have to wait and see. This is a good, humanitarian move. I believe it is to counter Russia's "wins" in Syria, and I fully support it.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan doesn't want to give an inch of land to Kurdish peoples who were living there for thousands of years. However, he and his the OIC was vocally and financially supporting permanent settlement for illegal immigrant Bengali Muslims in Rakhine State, Burma from Bangladesh. The OIC is supporting the Islamic terrorist group the ARSA in Bangladesh and Rakhine State, Burma. He and the OIC and Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein are crying loud when the Burmese military cracking down on the Islamic terrorist the ARSA which slaughtered Hindus, Buddhists and Christian and as well as Muslims. Now President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to destroy Kurdish Army YPG which was not a terrorist organization.

What a terrible and hypocrite President Erdogan was?

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Turkey meanwhile is also keeping a close eye on the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib which is almost entirely controlled by anti-government forces dominated by the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

It has urged Russia and Iran to rein in their Syrian regime ally and stop bombing the area, in a dispute that has led to rare public tensions with Moscow.

Some said the Syrian Kurds have a friend in Assad

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The row is the latest dispute between Turkey and the United States that goes beyond the YPG and Syria to include arguments over a New York court case, detained U.S. consulate staffers and the prosecution of Erdogan's bodyguards in the United States.

"A country -- which we call as our ally -- is insisting on having an army of terror along our border despite our objections, warnings and well-meaning advice."

They haven't been acting ally-ish for awhile - Turkey has been trying to play both sides

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