Looking at that picture I think Iraq is not better now.
This is not Iraq, Raz...
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Turkish Foreign Ministry summons Iranian ambassador
The Turkish Foreign Ministry has summoned Iranian Ambassador to Turkey Alireza Bigdeli over several statements from Iranian officials criticizing Ankara's policies on Syria.
“Turkey does not need to ask permission from anyone while taking measures in line with international law against threats to its national security,” Anadolu Agency quoted Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç on Oct. 17.
Bilgiç said Turkey denounces remarks by Iranian officials,
who should remain silent out of "shame" over the situation in Kobane and the humanitarian tragedy in the region as Iran has supported the Syrian regime that is the main cause of the “terror problem.”
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Emir Abdullahyan recently accused Turkey of pursuing "neo-Ottomanist" policies in the region.
Iranian Chief of General Staff Hasan Firuzabadi, meanwhile, indirectly criticized Turkey for blocking aid to Kobane, a Kurdish town on Syria's border with Turkey that has been attacked by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-foreign-ministry-summons-iranian-ambassador.aspx?pageID=238&nID=73147&NewsCatID=510
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I love how Turkey is dealing with this issue so far. Iran should shut up for ever. They are the biggest terrorists in the region along with Israel.
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Turkey's Erdogan rejects arming Syrian Kurdish group
Istanbul (AFP) - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday rejected calls for Turkey to arm the main Kurdish party in Syria, describing the group as a terrorist organisation.
Erdogan said the Democratic Union Party (PYD) was the same as the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged a 30-year insurgency for self-rule in southeastern Turkey.
The armed wing of the PYD, the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), has been engaged in heavy fighting in recent weeks with the Islamic State group for control of the northern Syrian town of Kobane.
"There has been talk of arming the PYD to form a front here against the Islamic State. For us, the PYD is the same as the PKK, it's a terrorist organisation," Erdogan said aboard a plane returning from Afghanistan.
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It would be very, very wrong to expect us to openly say 'yes' to our NATO ally America to give this kind of support. To expect something like this from us is impossible," he was quoted as saying by the state-run Anatolia news agency.
French President Francois Hollande last week called on Turkey to open open its border to allow reinforcements to reach Kobane while the PYD itself called on Ankara to allow its territory to be used for transferring weapons.
The United States said on Thursday it held direct talks for the first time with the PYD.
Ankara is reluctant to arm Kurds and intervene militarily against the jihadists, fearing the creation of an effective Kurdish fighting force on its border.
Turkey has long linked the PKK to the PYD, although the Syrian group rejects the claims.
Ankara also accuses the PYD of not working to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who Turkey has staunchly opposed since the conflict erupted in March 2011.
"They are complicit in the crimes committed by the Syrian regime," Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said at a press conference in Ankara.
"We would have a different attitude towards the PYD and Kobane" if the PYD had kept its promises to work to topple Assad, he said.
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Turkey assassinated Press TV reporter: Pundit
A political analyst has termed the suspicious death of Press TV’s correspondent in Turkey, Serena Shim, as an act of “assassination” by the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“The reality is that our sister Serena was assassinated by Erdogan’s regime,” Shabir Hassan Ali, a political analyst from London, said in an interview with Press TV on Sunday night, adding, “Serena was hounded in a fashion by Turkish intelligence.”
The analyst further said that she was “assassinated” because “she gave the truth about what this regime in Turkey, that has been oppressing its people, that has been oppressing the Kurdish population and that is actively working to support…this terrorist organization known as the ISIL” is doing.
The analyst further called the killing of Maya Nasser, another Press TV correspondent, in Syria an act of “assassination” by terrorist groups.
In 2012, Nasser was shot in the neck and the chest by a foreign-backed sniper in the Syrian capital Damascus.
Shim, an American citizen of Lebanese origin, was killed on Sunday as she was in Turkey to cover the ongoing war in the strategic Syrian town of Kobani.
She was going back to her hotel from a report scene in the Turkish city of Suruç when the car carrying her collided with a heavy vehicle. The identity and whereabouts of the truck driver remain unknown.
Shim covered reports for Press TV in Lebanon, Iraq, and Ukraine.
On Friday, she told Press TV that the Turkish intelligence agency had accused her of spying probably due to some of the stories she has covered about Turkey’s stance on the ISIL terrorists in Kobani and its surroundings, adding that she feared being arrested.
Shim flatly rejected accusations against her, saying she was “surprised” at this accusation “because I have nothing to hide and I have never done anything aside my job.”
Kobani and its surroundings have been under attack since mid-September, with the ISIL militants capturing dozens of nearby Kurdish villages.
Turkey has been accused of backing the ISIL militants in Syria.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/10/20/382878/press-tv-turkey-reporter-assassinated/
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