{"id":1843,"date":"2017-03-30T09:39:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T09:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2017-03-30T09:39:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T09:39:10","slug":"chairman-of-the-committee-of-international-affairs-of-the-russian-duma-concerned-over-a-small-turkey-in-northern-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/03\/30\/chairman-of-the-committee-of-international-affairs-of-the-russian-duma-concerned-over-a-small-turkey-in-northern-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS OF THE RUSSIAN DUMA CONCERNED OVER \u201cA SMALL TURKEY\u201d IN NORTHERN SYRIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/State-Duma.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1844\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/State-Duma-1024x665.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/State-Duma-1024x665.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/State-Duma-300x195.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/State-Duma-768x499.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/State-Duma-560x364.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/State-Duma-260x169.jpeg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/State-Duma-160x104.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/State-Duma.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : Kom News<\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s military presence in Syria is worrying Russia, says\u00a0Leonid Slutsky, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the Russian Duma, in a press conference held in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know the situation in Northern Syria,\u201d Slutsky said as quoted by <em>Sputnik<\/em>. \u201cTurkish troops took al-Bab and they could take more land by pushing back the Kurds towards the western banks of the Euphrates river. A small Turkey would emerge in Northern Syria,\u201d he said adding that Turkish expansion is not beneficial to the unity of Syrian territorial unity.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey is displeased by\u00a0developing relations between the Kurds in Syria and the Russians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sergey Rudskoy, chief of the Russian General Staff\u2019s main operations department, had previously said that following negotiations with the Manbij Military Council (MMC), a component of the SDF, a strip of land in Arima in the western Manbij countryside had been left to government forces.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : Kom News Turkey\u2019s military presence in Syria is worrying Russia, says\u00a0Leonid Slutsky, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the Russian Duma, in a press conference held in Moscow. \u201cWe know the situation in Northern Syria,\u201d Slutsky said as quoted by Sputnik. \u201cTurkish troops took al-Bab and they could take more land&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/03\/30\/chairman-of-the-committee-of-international-affairs-of-the-russian-duma-concerned-over-a-small-turkey-in-northern-syria\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS OF THE RUSSIAN DUMA CONCERNED OVER \u201cA SMALL TURKEY\u201d IN NORTHERN SYRIA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[27,1409,15],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-russia","tag-russian-general-staff","tag-syria","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}