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US to stop arming anti-IS Syrian Kurdish YPG militia - Turkey
The US is to stop supplying arms to the Syrian Kurdish militia the YPG, Turkey has said. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said President Donald Trump had made the promise in a phone call to his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The White House said it was making "adjustments" to its support for partners inside Syria but did not explicitly name the YPG.
Turkey has long complained about US support for the group. Washington has viewed the YPG as a key player in the fight against so-called Islamic State (IS), but Ankara brands the group's fighters as terrorists. Turkey says the YPG is as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a group it has been fighting for decades in south-eastern Turkey. The US, however, has seen the YPG as distinct from the PKK. In May it announced it would supply arms to the Kurdish elements of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which were poised to drive IS from its stronghold of Raqqa. It had previously armed only Arab elements of the SDF.
Goodbye, Kurdistan?
Also at Reuters, NPR, Daily Sabah, and RT.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Gaaark on Sunday November 26 2017, @02:27PM (2 children)
They'll stop selling guns to A.
They won't stop selling guns to B, though.
B then sells guns to A.
American rich keep profiting and people keep dying.
I wonder about the U.S. military, though: A gets taken down or succeeds, and someone gets pissed off at America. American made (and profited) weapons THEN get used against American soldiers who die because Daddy wasn't rich enough to keep them out of the military/front lines.....
It's a mad mad mad mad world.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mhajicek on Sunday November 26 2017, @06:32PM
That consequence is not unintended. Then the industry sells more to the US military for even more profit.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday November 26 2017, @07:27PM
Exactly... They stopped directly arming the YPG. Now they have to go through "channels". Gee, too bad Benghazi was shut down. I heard they were pretty reliable... I guess Al-Qaeda will have to suffice for now.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..