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US & Turkey to train "rebels" in Syria

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This is sure to have some blow back effects if ISIS wasn't enough. They have turned Syria- once a functioning country into another Libya and as Sen. Rand Paul described it "a jihadi wonderland." The only difference is in Syria the fight is not over.
 
the west and their puppets are repeating history all over again, the west with their puppets raised and armed Alqaeda and now they the west and their puppets raised and armed AQ and I$I$

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Do they have similar plans only for Middle-eastern and North-African countries? Or will they do the same in other countries with huge Muslim population for instance in South Asia.

Just curious
 
Turkey, US to sign deal to train and equip Syrian rebels

Turkey and the United States aim to finalize an agreement on equipping and training moderate Syrian rebels this month, a senior foreign ministry official said on Monday, part of the US-led campaign to battle the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.

The training is expected to start in March, simultaneously with similar programs in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, the Turkish official said. The aim is to train 15,000 Syrian rebels over three years.

"Around 1,500 to 2,000 people are expected to be trained in Turkey [in the first year]," the official said, adding that a "limited number" of US soldiers would come to Turkey to help carry out the training jointly with Turkish colleagues.

The training is planned to take place at a base in the central Turkish city of Kırşehir.

ISIL has seized large swathes of territory in Syria and around one third of Iraq. It seized Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, in June last year.

Turkey has been a reluctant partner in the US-led coalition against the insurgents, refusing a frontline military role despite its 1,200 kilometer (750-mile) border with Iraq and Syria.

But it agreed in principle to train and equip Syrian rebels and is already training Kurdish peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq. Ankara has signaled that it is ready to extend similar assistance to the Iraqi army and send arms.

Turkey has long argued that air strikes alone are not enough to bring stability. It wants a comprehensive strategy including the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad before it will give stronger support to the US-led campaign.

Syria's Western-backed political opposition group, the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (SNC), has elected a new presidential committee and a president widely seen as not tied to any of the body's international sponsors.

Despite having tenuous links with fighters on the ground and being seen as out of touch with ordinary Syrians, the National Coalition remains one of the main parties in international discussions to find solutions to the almost four-year civil war.

Khaled Khoja takes over as president from Hadi al-Bahra, who is considered to have close links with Saudi Arabia. Bahra served for one term and did not run for a second but will be in the political committee.

Khoja, a 49-year-old Damascus-born doctor and businessman, won 56 votes out of 106 votes cast at a closed meeting in İstanbul on Sunday. The 111-member body also elected a new secretary-general and vice presidents.

The role of the vice president reserved for a Kurdish member had not yet been filled, as the Kurdish bloc had not yet presented a new nominee, the National Coalition said.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres is visiting Turkey on Jan. 5-7 to meet senior Turkish government officials and address the seventh ambassadors' conference.

Paying an official visit to Turkey upon the invitation of Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Guterres is scheduled to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Interior Minister Efkan Ala.

Sharing a long border with Syria, Turkey has also welcomed Syrians escaping the civil war and currently hosts around 1.6 million Syrian refugees. Turkish officials have recently voiced concern that there may be a new refugee influx over the Syrian border if the city of Aleppo falls.

Turkey, US to sign deal to train and equip Syrian rebels
 
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the west and their puppets are repeating history all over again, the west with their puppets raised and armed Alqaeda and now they the west and their puppets raised and armed AQ and I$I$

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This article is written by Robert Fisk - a big fan of Hezbollah.
 
Turkey will still not be appericiated jewish media will still continue to defame them.

loool what do you mean?? You mean Israel is responsible for Turkey training jihadists?o_O Think we should stop blaming Israel for everything.:big_boss:
 
I find it funny how people pick sides in Syria and tries to justify it in the moral ground by blaming the other. At one side you have this furious dictator who is responsible from tens of thousands of innocent deaths. At the other side you have this clusterfuck of an opposition consisting of FSA, Islamists and Kurds(?) most of which also happen to have several different branches in themselves.

So let's discuss it within the framework of realpolitik. Nobody can blame Turkey for looking after its own national interests in Syria.

They have done it from 2011.

USA is bad but erdoganist Torks are worse.

Tens of thousands people lost their lives in blessed Syria due to the terrorism supporter animals!

I mean look at this Farsi Kürt with identity crisis blaming and insulting Turks, who saved almost 2 million Syrians by providing them shelter while his own country is famous for its state sponsored terrorism. Isn't that hilarious?
 
Russia should train rebels to topple Jordan and Israel then :p: You attack my allies, I attack your allies. Two can play at this game.
 
Russia should train rebels to topple Jordan and Israel then :p: You attack my allies, I attack your allies. Two can play at this game.
Russia intelligence agency died with KGB.Many special KGB officers left Russia after soviet Union collapse.
 
Not Jihadist mike. It is moderate, secular rebels. Read the article above.

If you want to have a glance at groups which have entered Syria from Turkey, just take a look at ISIS, Nusra and hundreds of Chechens and Uzbeks who have gone to Jihadi missions in Syria, all through Turkey.

And please don't tell me that you couldn't stop them from going to Syria. You managed to arrest and even kill many Kurds who wanted to illegally go to Kobani to fight IS, but magically, others went to Syria without any difficulty. Of course we all know that it's in Erdogan's best interest to keep a blind eye on all those foreigners going there. After all, he has been waiting for 3.5 years to pray in Damascus mosque as he said himself.

I wonder what Erdogan is telling you guys that you have fell for this whole 'moderate' hoax. Just look at different fronts and see who is doing most of the fighting and having most of the success in Syria.
 
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