{"id":2943,"date":"2018-01-16T12:22:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2018-01-16T23:30:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T23:30:08","slug":"erdogan-we-will-strangle-u-s-backed-force-in-syria-before-its-even-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/01\/16\/erdogan-we-will-strangle-u-s-backed-force-in-syria-before-its-even-born\/","title":{"rendered":"ERDOGAN : WE WILL \u201cSTRANGLE\u201d U.S-BACKED FORCE IN SYRIA \u201cBEFORE IT\u2019S EVEN BORN\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : New York Times<\/p>\n

Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan threatened on Monday to “strangle” a planned 30,000-strong U.S.-backed force in Syria “before it’s even born,” as Washington’s backing for Kurdish fighters drove a wedge into relations with one of its main Middle East allies.<\/p>\n

The United States announced its support on Sunday for plans for a “border force” to defend territory held by U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led fighters in northern Syria.<\/p>\n

The Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad responded on Monday by vowing to crush the new force and drive U.S. troops from the country. Assad’s ally Russia called the plans a plot to dismember Syria and place part of it under U.S. control.<\/p>\n

But the strongest denunciation came from Erdogan, who has presided as relations between the United States and its biggest Muslim ally within NATO have stretched to the breaking point.<\/p>\n

“A country we call an ally is insisting on forming a terror army on our borders,” Erdogan said of the United States in a speech in Ankara. “What can that terror army target but Turkey?”<\/p>\n

Continue reading the main story<\/p>\n

“Our mission is to strangle it before it’s even born.”<\/p>\n

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