Turkish foreign minister Melet Cavusoglu said that Ankara is calling upon the US, its official ally in NATO, to cease any and all support to Syrian Kurdish forces and militias.
“I found that since World War II, Israel has used assassination and targeted-killing more than any other country in the West, in many cases endangering the lives of civilians”
"In Malmö, where a fifth of the 340,000 inhabitants are under 18, children as young as 14 roam the streets with Kalashnikov assault rifles and bulletproof vests."
"There is a major change in US military strategy. On Friday, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said terrorism is no longer the No. 1 priority... Maintaining a military advantage over China and Russia is now top priority."
As the world marches closer to war, countries in Europe are rushing to educate and prepare their civilian populations for military conflict with Russia...
"Sanctions are just as much a collective punishment as area bombing in East Aleppo, Raqqa and Mosul. They may even kill more people than the bombs and shells because they go on for years and their effect is cumulative..."
Turkish officials have turned on Ankara’s allies, insinuating that the US & France in particular have been providing massive military support to Kurdish YPG in Syria... "Anyone who opposes Turkey’s operation in northern Syria’s Afrin region is siding with terrorists and will be treated accordingly."
"... the US and its NATO subordinates persist in a Cold War mindset in order to fulfill ambitions of unipolar control... putting the world at greater risk of a nuclear catastrophe than at any time during the former Cold War."
"There is a growing consensus... that the national security agencies have become completely politicized over the past seventeen years and are now pursuing selfish agendas that actually endanger what remains of American democracy..."
"Our jets took off and started bombing. And now, the ground operation is underway. Now we see how the YPG ... are fleeing in Afrin," President Tayyip Erdogan said."We will chase them. God willing, we will complete this operation very quickly."