The Minister of foreign Affairs of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu expressed his opinion about the threats made yesterday from the White house. Trump promised to «destroy» Turkey if it attacked the Kurds after the withdrawal of US troops from Syria.
Turkey says nothing to be gained from economic threats https://t.co/6XH7g2Uwij pic.twitter.com/LcEHaR2kcZ
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) January 14, 2019
At a press conference in Ankara, Cavusoglu said that «We have repeatedly said that I am not afraid of threats. Economic threat to the Turkey doesn’t work», then added that to communicate on such matters via Twitter, in his opinion, is not correct: «the Strategic partners shall not communicate through social network».
Then the head of Turkish diplomacy said that Ankara is not against the required Washington’s 30-kilometer security zone in Syria near the Turkish border, but re-named Kurdish terrorist movement that threatens Turkey and Syria.
Turkish NEX24 publishes today a statement by the press Secretary of Erdogan Ibrahim Kalina: «the Problem is that the PKK / PYD / YPG are trying to restore order by suppressing the Kurds, who do not obey them and their terrorist activities against our country… there is No doubt that a terrorist group cannot be an ally of the United States.»
Advisor to Erdogan is Clear Athy, thinking about the situation in an interview with Al Jazeera questioned the independence of the trump solutions and the words: «trump stuck between public opinion, the United States, which casts doubt on a US presence in Syria and throughout the middle East, as well as politicians from his party and allies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia, who are against the retreat».
Turkish Army conducts battle drills on border with #Syria’s #Idlib#Turkey
📸 pic.twitter.com/I1HDn8VMkY
— Mete Sohtaoğlu (@metesohtaoglu) January 13, 2019
Thus, the Turkish leaders reserve the opportunity to strike at the Kurds and the international media continue to report on the transfer of Turkish troops to the Syrian border in the Kurdish area. In the US military and politicians criticized by trump taking out the Syrian troops, the betrayal of allies-the Kurds, many fear the real genocide of the people. On Sunday, Donald trump stated on Twitter that economically ruin the Turkey if it will hit the Kurds.
Erdogan speaks with Trump, says Turkey has no issue with Kurds https://t.co/Tmx6NJctoM pic.twitter.com/ZPU9T5w5sB
— Al Jazeera News (@AJENews) January 14, 2019
According to WSJ, trump called Erdogan and today, duplicating a threat by phone. Press Secretary of the White house Sarah Sanders told about this conversation to reporters: «the President expressed a desire to work together to solve security problems of Turkey, North East Syria, while stressing the importance for the United States to Turkey is not treated badly with the Kurds and other Syrian democratic forces.»
