U.S. Asks Turkey to Stop Attacks on Kurdish Fighters

[ganesh623]

May be my brain is not that resolved, but honestly i have lost the picture of who is fighting against whom in that part of the world.

 

[-SINAN-]

That's not gonna stop the siege of Aleppo by Resistance Front and fall of Tal Rif'at , Mare and Azaz by Kurds .

Tell the fascist Erdogan to keep nagging like a widow cos that's all he can do .

If YPG won't withdraw, MBRLs will rain on them.

 

[500]

American shall threaten Turkey with all the embargo of supplying TA-129 helicopter engine and all F-16 engine spare.

I will see how some pakistanis going to support PA buys TA-129 or brag about how advance this helo is compare to China Z-10 helo.

Do u realize that such idiotic threats will not only destroy billions US military sales in Turkey, but also severely damage 100s billions US military sales all over the world? Grow up

 

[mustafa erkan]

The US should use mass starvation by economic blockade. That would stop turkish aggression

We can can easily protect our economy from an economic crisis with Qatar's and SA's money.Also our economy is really strong against negative effects.

fascist Erdogan

Your leaders and Putin killed too many Muslims with Assad in Syria and you say Erdogan is fascist.
We accept millions of refugees and stand against to dictators (not only Assad also Sisi etc.) what makes me really proud of being a Muslim and being a Turk.
All these poor Syrians are coming to Facist Erdogan's country and we help them what ever we can do.Muslims people see this and also Allah knows everything.You go on at your way and we will go on at ours that is it.

 

[The SiLent crY]

If YPG won't withdraw, MBRLs will rain on them.

Tal Rif'at is going to fall with Russia's powerful and constant air support and after that Mare will be between ISIS and the Kurds meaning that it's militarily fallen . Only Azaz will be left which will either be liberated or flattened .

Aleppo and Latakia are lost . Turkey should save Idlib before it's late .

 

[mustafa erkan]

So, in my opinion, Turkey should just leave NATO and forget about US.

That will happen in the future I think but Nato need us now , as we need them against the increased Russian threat.Time is not come yet.

 

[Beast]

Do u realize that such idiotic threats will not only destroy billions US military sales in Turkey, but also severely damage 100s billions US military sales all over the world? Grow up

Not when US interest in Syria is threatened. Pakistan also has billions of sale for 60 F-16 in the 1990s and US still sanction them for nuclear test.

You are naive to think Turkey can really make everything themselves. Russian hate Turkey to core and Western Europe has close ties to US. Who can Turkey turn to for arms?

 

[TaiShang]

Year of the Monkey Sees New Monkey Business in Syria

Pepe Escobar

Far from a 'cessation of hostilities' in Syria, the real hostilities may just be getting started

The Syrian charade now proceeds under a vague “cessation of hostilities” – which is not a ceasefire – to be implemented within a week. Further on down the road, as this is the real world, “hostilities” will inevitably resume.

As Lavrov stressed multiple times, “we made proposals on implementing a ceasefire, quite specific ones.” And yet Washington and the Saudi-Turkish combo relented. A frightened, cornered House of Saud – with its remote-controlled “moderate rebel” gaggle being routed on the ground – even started spinning the ludicrous notion of sending ground troops, a.k.a. a bunch of mercenaries, to “help the US effort” against Daesh (ISIS/ISIL/IS).

The monkey business reached such a level of un-sustainability that Russian premier Dmitry Medvedev felt compelled to tell an interviewer from Germany’s Handelsblatt, “The Americans and our [Arab] partners must think hard about this: Do they want a permanent war?”

Sultan Erdogan and the House of Saud certainly do – because their Syrian regime change dreams are in tatters. But the lame duck Obama administration’s case is way more complicated.

True to its trademark, clueless foreign policy mode, there’s not much left for Team Obama except spinning.

The proverbial unnamed “US officials” spin on overdrive on Western corporate media that this postponed “cessation of hostilities” is a Russian trap – as Washington wanted an immediate ceasefire (no wonder; CIA remote-controlled “moderate rebels” are also being routed.) European and Arab vassals spin that Damascus and Moscow are “torpedoeing the peace efforts.”

And yet Kerry caved in – to realism, actually. Lavrov must have made it very clear the two non-negotiables for Russia; win the Battle of Aleppo, still in progress, and seal the Syria/Turkey border against any manifestation of the Jihadi Highway, “moderate” or otherwise.

Do the Munich Spin

There’s a nifty historical echo about the war in Syria being negotiated in parallel to the Munich Security Conference – traditionally dedicated to global security. But the most pressing question is whether this new Munich Pact will actually hold.

What’s certain is that Daesh (ISIS/ISIL/IS) and al-Nusra Front, a.k.a al-Qaeda in Syria, will keep being targeted by both Russians and Americans even after the “cessation of hostilities”.

The “4+1” coalition – Russia, Syria, Iran, Iraq, plus Hezbollah – will also keep targeting every outfit remotely connected with Jabhat al-Nusra (and they are legion).

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) will for its part intensify its attacks against Daesh (ISIS/ISIL/IS). Call it the “all roads lead to Raqqa” syndrome. As soon as the Syria/Turkey border is sealed – with crucial input by the YPG Kurds – the march to Raqqa will be inevitable.

This is the ground scenario for the next few days. So no wonder the Saudi-Turkish combo is absolutely desperate; if they as much as try to support their “moderate rebels” with their aerial assets, they will be reduced to ashes by the Russian Air Force.

Enter extra Exceptionalistan spin, according to which NATO is “exploring the possibility” of joining the US-led from behind coalition against Daesh (ISIS/ISIL/IS).

This is nonsense; the Pentagon is already implicated. Major powers at NATO such as France and Germany want to extricate themselves from a Syrian crisis, not to get into a ground war. The whole charade amounts to Turkey’s Sultan Erdogan desperately trying, over and over again, to get NATO into the fray, even if it that takes a lethal provocation of Russia; after all his dream – now in tatters – of creating a “safe zone” on the Turkey/Syria border refuses to die.

That Hostile Sultan

Behind the whole “cessation of hostilities” charade, there’s a stark fact; the lame duck Obama administration does not seem to want to escalate those proverbial “tensions” with Moscow to an irreversibly critical level (Pentagon/NATO Cold War 2.0 obsession is another story.) The skies above Syria won’t offer a prelude for a US-Russia total war.

But that doesn’t mean the Pentagon will desist from trying.

The Pentagon’s Ash “Empire of Whining” Carter and Britain’s Michael Fallon will be meeting with GCC and Turkey brass in Brussels. And guess who’s the head of the Saudi delegation: Warrior Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the actual House of Saud supremo as it stands (considering King Salman drifts on and off), as well as defense minister and responsible for the Saudi debacle in Yemen.

The Warrior Prince is absolutely livid that his remote-controlled “rebels” are being shellacked on the ground by the SAA and the Russian Air Force. Yet Yemen will be nothing compared to the drubbing his “Special Forces”, a.k.a. mercenaries will suffer under experienced SAA, Iranian and Hezbollah fighters.

The plot thickens. Both sides will deny it, but there are back-room channels being used by the House of Saud and Moscow to clearly demarcate areas to be run by the SAA and some acceptable “rebels” under the framework of fighting ISIS/ISIL/Daesh. This proves Saudis and Russians can join their efforts as long as it’s against hardcore jihadism.

With deranged Sultan Erdogan, on the other hand, any possibility of a deal is beyond remote. Especially after the PYD northeastern Syrian Kurds — which Ankara regards as “terrorists” — opened a representative office in Moscow this past Wednesday, at the invitation of President Putin.

So keep an eye on this “cessation of hostilities”. Because the real hostilities may be just about to begin.

 

[T-Rex]

If YPG won't withdraw, MBRLs will rain on them.

Keep up the good work! BTW, don't forget to target the forces of the Asad regime.