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    American Naivety.
    Remember during Afghan resistance to USSR, USA provided arms and training to some Afghans who later became Al-Qaida and then gave birth to ISIS. Both held terrorist attacks on US soil, 9/11 being the major one.

    Now US is providing arms & training to Marxist/Leninist groups in North Syria who are offshoots of a US recognized terrorist group PKK.

    It's hard to know who uses the other one because both discard each other once their partnership ends and become enemies.

    So next time when there is a terrorist attack on US soil, don't turn to each other with a sad puppy face and say "OMG, What have done to deserve this?"
    http://time.com/.../turkey-unite…
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    Both Turkey and the U.S. list the PKK as a terrorist organization, but the U.S. insists that its militia partners in Syria are a separate group from the PKK guerillas fighting Turkey. Yet the two organizations have direct ties, and Kurdish citizens of Turkey are among the YPG’s fighters. After U.S. military officials visited the site of the Turkish airstrikes in Syria, photos surfaced online that appeared to show a U.S. military official standing alongside a commander from the PKK. In Washington, U.S. officials continued to stress the distinction between the two militant groups. At a news briefing on Wednesday, State Department spokesman Mark Toner told journalists, “I would strongly call into question, with all due respect, that senior military leaders of the U.S. were somehow glad-handing or shaking hands with PKK leaders. As I said, the PKK is a recognized foreign terrorist organization by the United States.”

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    • Nah, they've only got your lot in their sights - they have literally no reason to target the US.detritus
    • I hope you're being ironic. They are fundamentally against USA. http://www.imagopyre…Beeswax
    • It's just a matter of time that they become allies with Russia. In fact they have already started to get together with their commie brothers.Beeswax
    • Russia's in bed with whoever she can coerce. Again, your lot. And the PKK's communist ambitions are an anachronism that doesn't point west.detritus
    • Is Wikipedia still banned in Turkey this week, or is your country back to being a free and modern middle eastern power?detritus
    • "your lot" - wtffadein11
    • Why do the Kurds not deserve their own homeland? they're the world's largest group that doesn't have one. It would ease a lot of your problems no?_niko
    • Aye 'your lot', and what of it? It is 'his lot' going by every defence he's made since a few weeks after the coup in 'his' country, politically and nationally.detritus
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