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Turkish Military Begins Major Offensive Into Syria in Fight Against ISIS

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/w...n-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

The joint offensive on the city of Jarabulus, one of the last border strongholds of the Islamic State, began hours before Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, the Turkish capital. The timing seemed aimed at easing tensions between the two countries raised by the failed coup in Turkey last month.

The operation, clearing the way for Syrian rebels to take the border town, represented a significant escalation of Turkey’s role in the fight against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL. But it also seemed as much about containing the territorial ambitions of Syrian Kurdish militias, which Turkey sees as its primary enemy in the conflict and which were poised to move against Jarabulus.
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Wonder what is next?
 
TheGoverness said:
Chaos.
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Greetings, TheGoverness. :2wave:

Deliberately planned chaos! Erdogan is sympathetic to ISIS, and we still don't know the truth behind the coup that failed, but thousands of citizens were rounded up for taking part in the attempt to oust Erdogan, who has become a dictator, according to reports I have read! What is the truth?
 
polgara said:
Greetings, TheGoverness. :2wave:

Deliberately planned chaos! Erdogan is sympathetic to ISIS, and we still don't know the truth behind the coup that failed, but thousands of citizens were rounded up for taking part in the attempt to oust Erdogan, who has become a dictator, according to reports I have read! What is the truth?
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No idea. I'm even hearing that the attempted coup was planned by Erdogan himself in order to take more control over Turkey.

But all I know is I want him gone. He's ruined Turkey.

He can call himself a President, but we all see what he really is: a cruel dictator.
 
Just so we are clear...ISIS is the bad guys or the good guys in Syria this month?
 
polgara said:
Deliberately planned chaos! Erdogan is sympathetic to ISIS, and we still don't know the truth behind the coup that failed, but thousands of citizens were rounded up for taking part in the attempt to oust Erdogan, who has become a dictator, according to reports I have read! What is the truth?
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That's sorta the truth. Very Putinesque. I don't know if I would say that Erdogan is sympathetic to ISIL, so much as his antipathy towards the Assad regime has (in the last few years) been stronger.
 
Deuce said:
Yes..
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Whew. Good. No...wait...IS that good? Erdogan is a bad guy...right? And Assad?

Man this stuff gets confusing.
 
Somehow I have the feeling that only the Kurds will suffer from this operation.
 
cpwill said:
Its an interesting question - especially in light of Erdogan's post-coup visits to Russia and Iran.
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Well he does not want Kurds on his border.
 
Holy ****, this has gotten intense. Rebel and Turkish forces have attacked the positions of anti-Islamic State Kurdish forces. The Kurdish fighters have managed to destroy several Turkish tanks.



This could spell the end of the alliance between the Syrian Kurds and the United States against the Islamic State.
 
I am not a military mastermind myself, but who puts tanks in a plain without forming a perimeter using troops?
 
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