{"id":287602,"date":"2016-12-28T20:44:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T19:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/turkeys-claims-against-us-bizarre-but-true-analyst\/"},"modified":"2016-12-28T20:44:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T19:44:58","slug":"turkeys-claims-against-us-bizarre-but-true-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/turkeys-claims-against-us-bizarre-but-true-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s claims against US bizarre but true: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s claim that the United States supports Daesh, although true, indicates a deepening confusion in Ankara\u2019s foreign policy, says an American analyst.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James Jatras, a former US diplomat and foreign policy adviser to the Senate, made the remarks while discussing Erdogan\u2019s accusations that\u00a0the US-led coalition has been supporting the Daesh terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have confirmed evidence, with pictures, photos and videos,\u201d said Erdogan.<\/p>\n<p>The US Embassy in Ankara rejected the claims, saying Washington \u201cdid not create or support Daesh in the past\u201d and such assertions \u201care not true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Describing Erdogan\u2019s claim as \u201cbizarre\u201d and yet \u201ctrue,\u201d Jatras said the US has indeed been supplying the terrorist group\u00a0with weapons and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, what is strange about Mr. Erdogan\u2019s accusations is that of course Turkey has been supporting terrorist groups, including elements of al-Qaeda, and then there is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/28\/503891\/US-Turkey-Erdogan-Daesh\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s claim that the United States supports Daesh, although true, indicates a deepening confusion in Ankara\u2019s foreign policy, says an American analyst. James Jatras, a former US diplomat and foreign policy adviser to the Senate, made the remarks while discussing Erdogan\u2019s accusations that\u00a0the US-led coalition has been supporting the Daesh terrorist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}