{"id":392510,"date":"2019-01-12T03:16:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T02:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/leave-syria-now-before-we-strike\/"},"modified":"2019-01-12T03:16:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T02:16:57","slug":"leave-syria-now-before-we-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/leave-syria-now-before-we-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave Syria Now Before We Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-01-10\/erdogan-trump-leave-syria-now-we-strike\"><strong>Zero Hedge<\/strong><\/a><br \/>January 11, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turkey has threatened to strike the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia if the United States delays its troop withdrawal from the country, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jan\/10\/turkey-says-it-will-launch-syria-offensive-if-us-delays-pullout?CMP=edit_2221\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the [pullout] is put off with ridiculous excuses like Turks are massacring Kurds, which do not reflect the reality, we will implement this decision,\u201d said Turkish foreign minister\u00a0Mevl\u00fct \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu, referring to their threat to launch a military operation in Kurdish controlled Syria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/syria%20map.jpeg?itok=AoahNx94\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/syria%20map.jpeg?itok=AoahNx94\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/syria%20map.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/syria%20map.jpeg?itok=AoahNx94 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"459\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"aa838f44-2bc3-4549-a2f1-711eb798550e\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking with broadcaster\u00a0<em>NTV<\/em>,\u00a0\u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu said it was not realistic to assume that the United States will be able to collect weapons it gave to the YPG, which Turkish President\u00a0Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan considers a terrorist group.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Turkish officials had a tense meeting this week with Trump\u2019s national security adviser, John Bolton<\/strong>, in Ankara aimed at coordinating the pullout process.<\/p>\n<p>Erdo\u011fan \u2013 who has welcomed the pullout plan \u2013 <strong>accused Bolton of a \u201cgrave mistake\u201d by demanding that Ankara provide assurances on the safety of the Kurdish fighters before Washington withdraws its troops<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, who is on a regional tour, also said on Wednesday that Turkey had committed to protecting Washington\u2019s Kurdish allies fighting Islamic State in Syria. \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jan\/10\/turkey-says-it-will-launch-syria-offensive-if-us-delays-pullout?CMP=edit_2221\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The United States has worked closely with the Syrian Kurdish People\u2019s Protection Units (YPG) militia, which Ankara views as a \u201cterrorist offshoot\u201d of the Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK), reports <em>The Guardian<\/em>. The PKK has vowed to battle the Turkish state since 1984.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are determined on the field and at the table \u2026 We will decide on its timing and we will not receive permission from anyone,\u201d \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu said of the plan to strike, adding that various officials in the Trump administration had tried to discourage Trump from the pullout plan \u2013 creating \u201cexcuses\u201d such as Turkey massacring Kurds,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/erdogan-to-trump-leave-syria-now-before-we-strike.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero HedgeJanuary 11, 2019 Turkey has threatened to strike the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia if the United States delays its troop withdrawal from the country, according to\u00a0The Guardian.\u00a0 \u201cIf the [pullout] is put off with ridiculous excuses like Turks are massacring Kurds, which do not reflect the reality, we will implement this decision,\u201d said Turkish [&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-392510","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\/392510","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=392510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}