Vice President Fuat Oktay: Turkey to clear northern Syria from YPG 'sooner or later'

NUR ÖZKAN ERBAY ISTANBUL Published 24.05.2019 00:04

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Speaking to Daily Sabah in an exclusive interview, Vice President Fuat Oktay indicated that the Manbij agreement has not been satisfying for Turkey so far

Turkey will eliminate the PKK's Syrian affiliate, the People's Protection Units (YPG), from northern Syria sooner or later and not allow any terror corridor to be established that poses a threat to the country and the people of Syria, Vice President Fuat Oktay said.

In an exclusive interview on Thursday, Oktay answered Daily Sabah's questions on a variety of issues, including recent developments in Syria, increasing tension in Idlib, implementation of the Manbij road map, Turkey's position on U.S.-Iran escalation, Turkey's S-400 purchase, Turkey-U.S. relations, Turkey's drilling in the eastern Mediterranean, rising anti-Islam rhetoric in the West, coup attempts in Venezuela and Turkey's fight against the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ).

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Elaborating on Turkey's position and expectations from the Manbij agreement and the ongoing safe zone consultations with the United States, Oktay indicated that the emergence and performance of the agreement has not been satisfying for Turkey so far.

"There is no change in our position on this matter. The situation in Idlib cannot be sustainable. Joint patrols and training have started but Manbij has not been cleared of the PKK, Democratic Union Party (PYD), or the YPG yet. This terror corridor is still a threat for Turkey and the people of the region. But we have also said to our counterparts that we will take this matter into our own hands if it's necessary. No one should expect Turkey to change its position in this direction. We will eliminate these terrorists from the region sooner or later," Oktay continued.

Turkish and U.S. officials held the third meeting of the Turkey-U.S. working group on Syria last December, agreeing to continue the Manbij road map and underlining their commitment to Syria's territorial integrity. Since then, Washington's relationship with the YPG, under the name of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an umbrella group that is dominated by the YPG, continues at full speed. The U.S.-led coalition already trained 10,000 to 20,000 SDF forces in northeastern Syria under the pretext of defeating Daesh, and the number is expected to grow further.

This is the forty eighth edition of my rating foreign leaders series. Below is the list of the forty seven other world leaders with their respective scores on the 1-5 scale, a P denotes that the poll was a "potential" one:

1. Boris Johnson (United Kingdom): 2.0
2. Micheal Martin (Ireland) (P): 3.1
3. Antonio Costa (Portugal): 3.0
4. Pedro Sanchez (Spain): 2.8
5. Emmanuel Macron (France): 3.7
6. Xavier Bettel (Luxembourg): 3.8
7. Sophie Wilmes (Belgium): 3.2
8. Mark Rutte (Netherlands): 3.7
9. Angela Merkel (Germany): 4.2
10. Mette Frederiksen (Denmark): 2.8
11. Giuseppe Conte (Italy): 2.7
12. Sebastian Kurz (Austria): 2.1
13. Janez Jansa (Slovenia): 2.0
14. Andre Plenkovic (Croatia): 2.7
15. Milorad Dodik, Sefik Dzaferovic, Zeljko Komsic (Bosnia-Herzegovina): 1.9
16. Aleksandar Vucic (Serbia): 1.5
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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Cumhurbaşkanı Yardımcısı Fuat Oktay, -sözde- “bağımlılıkla mücadele” adı altındaki yeni yasak ve sansürleri duyurdu.

https://preview.redd.it/gx73y4717ue61.jpg?width=2032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ac1fcc0cc91577cf6fac770f45dda1e8bbfb80e

Milliyet Gazetesi’nden Abdullah Karakuş’a konuşan Oktay, dükkan isimlerinde yer alan” meyhane, tobacco shop, nargile cafe” gibi ibarelerin “özendirici” olduğunu gerekçe gösterdi. Oktay, aynı gerekçeyle nargile tütünlerinde yer alan aromaların da yasaklanacağını aktardı.

Kaynak:https://twitter.com/meydangazetesi/status/1356175679751155715

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!