{"id":71789,"date":"2017-04-30T12:46:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T16:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71789"},"modified":"2017-04-30T12:46:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T16:46:28","slug":"erdogan-threatens-kurds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71789","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan threatens Kurds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This Friday, April 28, 2017 still taken from video, shows U.S. forces patrolling on a rural road in the village of Darbasiyah, in northern Syria. U.S. armored vehicles are deploying in areas in northern Syria along the tense border with Turkey, a few days after a Turkish airstrike that killed 20 U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters, a Syrian war monitor and Kurdish activists said Friday. (AP Photo via APTV)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/center><\/p>\n

Chief Tango sends us a link from the Associated Press<\/a> which reports that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who used the war against ISIS as an opportunity to attack Kurds, is threatening to further those attacks, instead of participating in the defeat of ISIS.<\/p>\n

Last week, Turkey struck at YPG positions inside Syria, killing 20 fighters and media activists, according to the group, prompting Kurdish parties to call for a U.S.-enforced no-fly-zone over northern Syria.<\/p>\n

U.S. troops were seen Saturday in armored vehicles in Syria in Kurdish areas in a show of force apparently intended to dissuade Turkey and Syrian Kurdish forces from attacking one another. Kurdish officials describe the U.S. troop movement as “buffer” between them and Turkey.<\/p>\n

Video from northern Syria showed the U.S. patrols parked alongside Kurdish units flying the YPG flag.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Erdogan is no ally in this war, he’s an opportunist. By all accounts, the Kurds are the last best chance for Iraq in the region. Erdogan is doing his best to negate that chance. He is meeting Trump in Washington on May 16th. Maybe the US president can set him straight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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