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Russia has promised to protect Kurdish fighters in Syria in case of a ground offensive by Turkey, a move that would lead to a “big war,” the Syrian group’s envoy to Moscow said in an interview on Wednesday. “We take this threat very seriously because the ruling party in Turkey is a party of war,” Rodi Osman, head of the Syrian Kurds’ newly-opened representative office said in Kurdish via a Russian interpreter. “Russia will respond if there is an invasion. This isn’t only about the Kurds, they will defend the territorial sovereignty of Syria.” Conflicting interests in Syria have created a dangerous new phase in the country’s five-year war, even as world powers struggle to implement a truce agreement. Turkey fears Kurdish gains along its border will morph into an autonomous state and inspire similar ambitions among its own Kurdish minority. But a ground intervention risks conflict with Russia, which backs the Kurds militarily, and would anger the U.S., which sees the group as a major ally in the fight against Islamic State. Turkey has been shelling Syrian Kurdish forces since the weekend, and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed them for a bombing in Ankara that killed 28 people on Wednesday.
Russia has said it is helping the Syrian Kurds militarily and Nikolai Kovalyov, a former head of the Federal Security Service, the main successor to the Soviet KGB, said that Russian jets would bomb Turkish troops if they enter Syria. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said any foreign incursion into Syria would be “illegal” and the Russian response would depend on the situation. Russian airstrikes in northern Syria are succeeding in driving out Turkish-backed rebels, she told a weekly briefing in Moscow on Thursday.
unfortunately turkey is in NATO.
originally posted by: Sargeras
a reply to: Discotech
Russia will pwn turkey if it comes to open conflict.
The Northern Thunder military exercises in Saudi Arabia with the participation of 21 countries are not a training drill for any specific operation, a Saudi Defense Ministry aide told Sputnik.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The drills began on Sunday in Saudi Arabia’s northern region near the Iraqi border and include ground troops and the air forces from Egypt, Sudan, Jordan, and a number of other Arab and Islamic countries participating in the Saudi-led coalition against Daesh, which is prohibited in numerous countries including the United States and Russia.
sputniknews.com...
unfortunately turkey is in NATO. anything they start, we the west, will likely have to deal with too.
originally posted by: stinkelbaum
unfortunately turkey is in NATO.
originally posted by: Sargeras
a reply to: Discotech
Russia will pwn turkey if it comes to open conflict.
anything they start, we the west, will likely have to deal with too.
rather than keep current borders designed after world war one, a whole remapping of the middle east should occur in my opinion.
it should solve all the religious problems we caused during that land grabbing exercise.
originally posted by: ContraInfo
a reply to: spy66
ISIS received their WHAT'S UP payment ?
SAUDIS are ditching their alliance PETRO$ ?? It's all good ... They are now useless to USA ... No panic
Everyone time to be very quiet ... Shhh ... Just let it happen
YES:NO