Erdoğan to urge Trump to ditch US deal to arm Kurds in Syria during visit

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Source: The Guardian

The Turkish president will seek to persuade Donald Trump to reverse his “mistaken and shortsighted” plan to arm Kurdish forces in Syria, announced as part of an American attempt to crush Islamic State’s final stronghold in Raqqa.

US officials this week announced a deal to directly supply arms to the People’s Protection Units (YPG), a Kurdish militia that Turkey has long argued is a terrorist organisation affiliated with its own homegrown Kurdish insurgent group, the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK).

In a wide-ranging speech in London on Friday, the Turkish prime minister, Binyali Yıldırım, described the Americans’ chosen partners as “not humans. They are machines that kill people. They are people that will fight for whichever government gives them money.”

Yıldırım suggested that even Trump’s White House team had wanted a different plan for Raqqa, but were rebuffed by staff in the field linked to the old Obama administration.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/12/erdogan-to-urge-trump-to-ditch-us-deal-to-arm-kurds-in-syria-during-visit

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Trump will end up doing whatever Erdogan wants. After all, the two men are cut from the same dictatorial cloth.

[nycbos]

1. He will cancel the plan to arm the Kurds.

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Then he will go back and say "I changed my mind again. I will arm the Kurds."


He changes is position on a topic depending on who is talking to at a particular moment.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. But only if

enough $$$ is offered and exchanged. Pay to play is how they roll.

[7962]

3. Erdogan also recently urged Muslims to flood Temple Mount. Screw him. nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

4. "You want build hotel or two here? Istanbul Trump Tower sound good eh?"

Next day:

"President Erdogan has convinced me that its in the United States best interest to stop funding the Kurdish YPG."