Erdogan: Turkey will 'give as good as it gets' against Kurdish forces

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Erdogan: Turkey will 'give as good as it gets' against Kurdish forces



"Turkey will give as good as it gets"

ANKARA: -- Turkey’s president has insisted that the country’s military will not stop shelling Kurdish positions in Syria in response to cross-border fire.

It follows concern at the UN over the attacks on Kurdish YPG militia targets.

On Tuesday the Security Council called on Turkey to abide by international law. But that brought a typically robust response from President Erdogan.

“Turkey will give as good as it gets”, he said in a speech broadcast live on Turkish television.

“Today our rules of engagement may be just about responding to an armed attack against our country, but tomorrow if necessary those rules can be expanded to cover every threat against our country. Nobody should doubt that. We will never allow the formation of a new Qandil on our southern border,” he said, referring to the mountains of northern Iraq where the outlawed PKK has bases.

He added that the United States should decide whether to support Turkey or the Kurdish insurgents.

The speech followed Erdogan’s criticism of Russian and Syrian forces on Tuesday on what he called “brutal operations” aimed at creating a corridor for Kurdish fighters. The militias from the YPG and its PYD political wing are terrorist organisations, he said.

The president had already accused Russia of war crimes after missile attacks that hit hospitals and other targets killed scores of people.

Moscow has denied having the capacity to make such strikes from its Caspian Sea fleet, as it claimed Ankara had suggested.

“The Caspian flotilla does not have a single boat capable of launching such ballistic missiles,” Russian Defence Ministry Igor Konashenkov said.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-02-18

[Jdietz]

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[FritsSikkink]

he doesn't want to loose his earnings from IS oil

[SOUTHERNSTAR]

A NATO country committing genocide ?

[Lukecan]

he doesn't want to loose his earnings from IS oil

Same lies were being told about Saddam prior to the Iraqi invasion that he supports al queda. What happened now? Al queda controls iraq after US "liberated" the country.

[SgtRock]

Erdogan is in for a severe shock when he realises that there is no NATO backup.

[Baerboxer]

A NATO country committing genocide ?

Why not, Turkey has done so before. And still refuses to admit that one.

A dangerous opportunist with delusions of returning Turkey to past grandeur as a Moslem empire republic.

[Rancid]

There is virtually no mentioning now in the MSM about the composition of ISIS and Al-Qaeda forces fighting in Syria, about the foreign Jihadists estimated to come from at least forty countries, and numbering several tens of thousands. In fact, the MSM talks about Saudi Arabia and Turkey committing more resources to fighting ISIS. Who does the MSM think it’s fooling? In fact, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are the principal arms purveyors and quartermasters of ISIS and their Al-Qaeda allies. The former is an intimate US vassal, the latter a NATO member. An American report indicates that «US allies have [just] delivered a massive shipment of ground-to-ground ‘Grad’ missiles to rebels in Syria». From http://www.voltairenet.org

Apparently these Grad missiles are very non specific when aiming them. Has also been suggested that these are the cause of civilian buildings being hit, yes fired by ISIS and not the Russians.

[donnybay]

Inch by inch we are heading for all out war in the ME