{"id":92029,"date":"2019-10-18T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92029"},"modified":"2019-10-18T08:50:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T12:50:59","slug":"the-continuing-story-of-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92029","title":{"rendered":"The Continuing Story of Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-78135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Redtail-hawk-and-redwing-2009-Web-view-copy-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Redtail-hawk-and-redwing-2009-Web-view-copy-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Redtail-hawk-and-redwing-2009-Web-view-copy.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Turkey agrees to a cease-fire, but says the Kurds must vacate the border area.<\/p>\n<p>Full article is here:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/10\/17\/turkey-agrees-to-5-day-cease-fire-in-syria-pence-says\/\">https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/10\/17\/turkey-agrees-to-5-day-cease-fire-in-syria-pence-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone want to take any bets on how long before Turkey ramps it up again?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, me neither. They want to re-establish the Ottoman Empire, which they lost under the Sykes-Picot agreement. Remember that one? They never recouped their acquired turf after that.\u00a0 I have no issues with this, other than my cynical view that it will last about as long as it takes Pence to board his plane and return to Foggy Bottom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey agrees to a cease-fire, but says the Kurds must vacate the border area. Full article &hellip; <a title=\"The Continuing Story of Turkey\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92029\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Continuing Story of Turkey<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92030,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92029\/revisions\/92030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}