Trump’s team maintains that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s insistence on attacking the Syrian Kurdish fighters — whom he fears will ally with a Kurdish militant group to carve an independent state out of the Syria-Turkey border region — leaves him responsible to prevent the..…
Additionally, Turkey “will now be responsible for all ISIS fighters in the area captured over the past two years,” Grisham said. . ... “The president has made it very clear that the U.S. position is if Turkey does undertake an operation across the border, then it will become..…
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan claims his army would create a 30-km (19-mile) wide zone inside Syria to fight the remnants of ISIS jihadists. ... The YPG Kurdish fighters have been battling the jihadists for years in the area, and they have lost a total of 11,000 fighters in the war against..…
It has also referred to its aggression against Syria as 'jihad,' echoing language used by ISIS. The term 'terrorist' is used in Turkey as a term to dehumanize Erdoğan opponents and legitimize the suppression of human rights and freedoms. ..…