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[Tim Drayton]

Meanwhile, DAESH has issued a video threatening Turkey after it has joined the "Satanic alliance" - i.e. the alliance to stop their genocide. It is in Arabic with Turkhis subtitles and can be seen here:

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/video/vide ... deosu.html

[Tim Drayton]

Istanbul has seen its first death. Yesterday evening, a group marched in protest against DAESH through the district of Esenyurt when an “unidentified person or persons” opened fire on them using live ammunition, wounding several protesters and killing Mert Değirmenci. Compare this with the speed and efficiency with which the police intervened against a young man who grabbed the pistol from the hand of a policeman at an anti-DAESH protest in the city of Izmir a few days ago.

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/turk ... geldi.html

[Tim Drayton]

Despite protestors being gunned down left right and centre, the protests against DAESH genocide continue in Turkey. There is currently a peaceful demonstration in the square known as Kolej Meydanı in Ankara, where the slogan being chanted is “Murderous DAESH, collaborationist AKP”. The police - seemingly incapable of stopping peaceful protestors against genocide from being shot dead in cold blood by "unidentified persons" - are ordering the protestors to disperse and will then probably attack them with their usual callous violence.



http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/turk ... cagri.html

[Tim Drayton]

Turkish foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, has just announced that it is unrealistic to expect Turkey to mount a unilateral ground operation.

[Tim Drayton]

If you believe petitions do any good, here is one calling on the Turkish government to open a humanitarian corridor to the Kurdish region of northern Syria:

https://www.change.org/p/tbmmresmi-insa ... 3%A7#share

[B25]

Despite protestors being gunned down left right and centre, the protests against DAESH genocide continue in Turkey. There is currently a peaceful demonstration in the square known as Kolej Meydanı in Ankara, where the slogan being chanted is “Murderous DAESH, collaborationist AKP”. The police - seemingly incapable of stopping peaceful protestors against genocide from being shot dead in cold blood by "unidentified persons" - are ordering the protestors to disperse and will then probably attack them with their usual callous violence.



http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/turk ... cagri.html

And these are the people that the likes of VP want us to do business with. Governments killing their own citizens and we are trying to have a 'peaceful' negotiations, Bloody Hell!

[Paphitis]

Turkish foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, has just announced that it is unrealistic to expect Turkey to mount a unilateral ground operation.

It was not unilateral. There is a coalition afterall.

The US had specifically asked Turkey to intervene with Ground Troops and defend the town of Kobani.

Turkey replied by telling the US that the coalition should focus on the removal of Assad before ISIL.

The US and Turkey are reported to being locked in negotiations and the US has stated that Turkey has not been cooperative. They are finally seeing what Erdogan really is finally.

And as for the removal of Assad - that's the easy bit. What happens after is the hard bit and the US does not have the answer. Maybe Erdogan has all the answers.

The mission is to disrupt, degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL. That is what all the countries of the coalition signed up for. Our mission is not regime change, and occupation of a country to ensure it does not fall into Islamist hands. For us, the current status quo could be the lesser of 2 evils.

If Erdogan wants, he can send his army all the way to Damascus.

[Tim Drayton]

The latest news from Ankara is that the police are violently intervening in a number of places against anti-DAESH demonstrations. As to the police progress in hunting down the people who cold bloodedly gunned down 23 peaceful demonstrators in various places in Turkey yesterday, I have heard nothing.

[B25]

The latest news from Ankara is that the police are violently intervening in a number of places against anti-DAESH demonstrations. As to the police progress in hunting down the people who cold bloodedly gunned down 23 peaceful demonstrators in various places in Turkey yesterday, I have heard nothing.

And neither will you. Since it is very obvious that the Turkish establishment fully supports the IS movement.

[Tim Drayton]

The police in Mardin have fired warning shots into the air to disperse an anti-DAESH demonstration:

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/turk ... _acti.html

Just curious - is there another country in the anti-DAESH coalition where the police are attacking anti-DAESH protests?