‘Turkey’s fight is against the terrorists, not against the Kurds’
Attempts to portray the country’s military operation in Syria as Turks against Kurds’ are malicious and false, says Turkey’s foreign minister
14 October 2019 - 12:43
It is dismaying that Turkey’s military operation in northeastern Syria is being spun in the US news media as an attack on Kurds, as weakening the fight against the remnants of Daesh (or the so-called Islamic State) and hurting the US’s credibility with its allies.
I am compelled to set the record straight because the 67-year-old North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) alliance that Turkey has with the US is not temporary, tactical nor transactional...
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