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Friday, January 06, 2017

#TURKEY: Pres. Erdogan Says US Is Arming ISIS In Syria & Kurd Separatists Within Turkey

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Pres. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the United States of arming ISIS, as well as Syrian Kurds, which he believes are allied with Kurdish separatists within Turkey. Erdogan also took the Barack Obama administration to task for giving ammunition to the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party and its armed wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG). Turkey considers the PYD an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought Turkey for independence and autonomy in southeast Turkey since 1984. The US embassy in Ankara denied the Turkish government’s allegations.

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Sunday, June 07, 2015

#TURKEY: Pres. Erdogan Threatens Editor Of Paper That Exposed Alleged Ammunition Shipment To Syrian Rebels

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Pres. Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of a secularist newspaper, will "pay a heavy price" after the paper ran photos showing ammunition and mortar shells in a truck allegedly chartered by the nation's intelligence agency, supposedly headed for Syria's rebels. The government asserts the trucks carried humanitarian aid.

Saturday, October 04, 2014

#CANADA: Harper Says Canada Can Bomb Syria Only With Dictator Assad's Permission; Six Month Limit to Airstrikes

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PM Stephen Harper says Canada will bomb ISIS in Syria if it receives permission from the government of Bashar al-Assad, the same government the prime minister supported military action against after it used chemical weapons on its own people.