{"id":32784,"date":"2018-03-26T06:06:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T11:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32784"},"modified":"2018-03-26T06:06:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T11:06:29","slug":"turkeys-erdogan-announces-iraq-military-incursion-threatens-americans-over-manbij","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32784","title":{"rendered":"Turkey’s Erdogan Announces Iraq Military Incursion, Threatens Americans Over Manbij"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turkey’s Erdogan Announces Iraq Military Incursion, Threatens Americans Over Manbij<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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On Sunday President\u00a0Recep\u00a0Tayyip Erdogan announced the beginning of Turkish military operations in Iraq’s Sinjar region<\/strong> a week after Turkey and allied Syrian FSA groups captured Afrin from Kurdish fighters. During that prior victory speech immediately on the heels of the Syrian Kurdish retreat from Afrin, Erdogan had promised\u00a0further “extensions” of his forces in the region<\/a>, including into Eastern Syria and Iraq, while making repeat historical references to the Ottoman empire.<\/p>\n

Erdogan warned at the time that Turkish troops would keep pushing east further into Syrian Kurdish YPG territory (Kurdish “People’s Protection Units” which Turkey considers an extension of the terrorist PKK), which would eventually pit his forces against the US armed and trained Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). <\/strong><\/p>\n

During Sunday’s speech he pledged to take\u00a0Tal Rifaat (northwest of Aleppo) and Manbij:\u00a0“the U.S. needs to transfer the control of Manbij to its real owners from the terrorist organization as soon as possible,”<\/strong> according to the Turkish daily Hurriyet<\/em>. US-backed forces are present in both places.<\/p>\n

Turkey’s president on Sunday: “We said we would go into Sinjar [Iraq]. Now operations have begun there.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Erdogan also in typically brazen fashion put Iraq’s government on notice, saying “We have told the central [Iraqi] government that the PKK is establishing a new headquarters in\u00a0Sinjar.\u00a0If you can deal with it, you handle it. But if you cannot we will suddenly enter\u00a0<\/strong>Sinjar<\/strong>\u00a0one night and clear this region of terrorists.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

It appears he is ready to make good on that promise, as the AP reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Turkey\u2019s president has announced the country is conducting operations in northern Iraq against Kurdish rebels it deems \u201cterrorists.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said <\/em>\u201coperations\u201d have begun in Sinjar to clear the mountainous area of Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party, or PKK, fighters.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Erdogan later said that if the PKK does not vacate Sinjar and Qandil, where it has its headquarters, \u201cit would be inevitable for us to do so personally.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Turkey’s Erdogan Announces Iraq Military Incursion, Threatens Americans Over Manbij On Sunday President\u00a0Recep\u00a0Tayyip Erdogan announced the beginning of Turkish military operations in Iraq’s Sinjar region a week after Turkey and allied Syrian FSA groups captured Afrin from Kurdish fighters. During that prior victory speech immediately on the heels of the Syrian Kurdish retreat from Afrin, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[442,19460,10633,1908,776,818,827,4318],"class_list":["post-32784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-iraq","tag-military-incursion","tag-ottoman-empire","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32785,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32784\/revisions\/32785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}