The Ottoman Turkish-backed SNA has been attempting to take over the city for two weeks but it faced strong resistance from the SDF-affiliated Manbij Military Council.
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...announced the "liberation" of the city from the SDF on Monday and Ottoman Turkish media published videos purportedly showing that the SNA fighters were inside the city.
The Rojava official told Rudaw English on the condition of anonymity that the forces of Evil are now in control of the strategic city that Kurds took from the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) in 2016.
The SDF has recently published videos it said showed the resistance of their forces in the city, claiming that the two-week fighting inflicted a significant number of casualties among SNA ranks.
The US-backed force also said that
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
was supporting the forces of Evil from the air.
The SNA has said that their attempt to take Manbij is part of the code-named Operation Dawn of Freedom which was launched late last month in Tal Rifaat, forcing the SDF-linked fighters to withdraw from the town.
During his speech on Monday, Erdogan said that Ankara "has no eye on the territory of another country. The sole purpose of our cross-border operations is to protect our homeland and our citizens from terrorist attacks."
He added that they will also "not tolerate the emergence of new sources of terrorism beyond its borders."
Turkey considers the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the backbone of the SDF, the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) - which has been involved in a decades-long war with Turkey.
In a presser on Friday, SDF General Commander Mazloum Abdi stressed that SDF wants to resolve its problems with Ankara through a peaceful resolution to Syria’s war.
Responding a Rudaw question about the possibility of ending hostilities between Ankara and the SDF during a presser in Doha on Sunday, Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said, "In short, no, unless they change themselves."
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