…from al-Masdar News, via TASS
[ Editor’s Note: NATO has rained on Erdogan’s parade after putting out feelers that he might ask for NATO assistance to deal with the Idlib situation by claiming Turkish troops are dying in the observation post, due to Syrians preferring to kill Turks despite there being thousands of Jihadis around as dance partners.
Today we had the video of two manpads shot from a peaceful Turkish observation post trying to get an SU-24 that had been bombing jihadis during their morning offensive on Nayrab, east of Idlib city. The plane evaded and denied the Turks their expected treat of watching the plane come down and maybe even a Russian pilot to nab.
Erdo’s preempting NATO was a bad move. When is the last time Turkey did anything for NATO that did not serve its own interests, like wanting NATO to fight the Russians and SAA?
The Russians are much cooler. I watched a video this morning of them laying out a perfect pattern of anti-infantry bomblets from a guided artillery canister that had four 155mm Turkish howitzers stop firing immediately.
The gunners knew the Russians could have fired anti-armor munitions and taken all four of them out. But that’s not how Putin rolls, only using what force is necessary to deny your attacker what he wants, while giving him time to reconsider backing off with limited losses.
I will try to post more of the ANNA (Abkhazia network) combat footage, including some night combat drone footage taking out APC and jihadi night squads, followed by a tour of the battlefield to see the damage… Jim W. Dean ]
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– First published … February, 02-20-20 –
NATO has no plans to provide Ankara with military support if Turkey launches a military operation in northern Syria, a diplomatic source from a NATO country told TASS on Monday.
“NATO countries will not support the invocation of Article 5 over the death of Turkish troops in Idlib in early February,” the source pointed out.
According to him, NATO is not considering the possibility of providing Turkey with military assistance in the event of a military operation in the region.
The diplomat said that the death of Turkish troops in Idlib was a tragedy but it had taken place during a unilateral military operation on foreign soil, which goes beyond Article 5 of NATO’s founding treaty.
He added that the fact was clear to Turkey as well, which is why Ankara had not tried to initiate NATO consultations on the matter.
As for the possibility of a Turkish military operation aimed at halting the advance of Syrian government forces in Idlib and assisting illegal armed groups in retaining control of certain parts of the province, the source noted that as a NATO member, Turkey had the political support of other member states but there were no plans to provide Ankara with military assistance.
The diplomat emphasized that not all NATO members shared Turkey’s goals in Syria and Libya, and the issue of providing military support to Turkey had not been raised at a meeting of NATO defense ministers on February 12-13.
The situation in the Syrian province of Idlib escalated after the Russian and Turkish militaries had made another attempt to ensure a ceasefire. In response, terrorists increased attacks, killing both Russian and Turkish military experts.
The Syrian army took action against extremists, seizing the town of Saraqib on February 5. On February 7, Turkey’s Milliyet newspaper reported that three out of 12 Turkish observation points were located in areas controlled by Damascus.
On the morning of February 11, Syrian opposition forces supported by Turkey launched large-scale attacks on Syrian government troops, particularly on Saraqib and the Nayrab settlement. The fighting also involved supporters of the Jabhat al-Nusra terror group (outlawed in Russia). Syrian troops thwarted the attacks, while militants suffered substantial losses.
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Instead of spending their time on Earth plotting more evil deeds against others, Erdogan and all Turks should spend most of their days looking in mirrors and thinking of ways to atone for the unspeakable crimes against the 1.5 million Armenians their ancestors murdered, raped, starved and tortured in WWI as very well documented much more so than the alleged other Holocaust in WWII. They should repeat over and over and over again the Golden Rule: “Do Unto Others as you would have them Do Unto YOU.”! Evidently learning from history is difficult to get through their thick skulls.
While I was a faculty member in the physics department at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, I became friends with another colleague in the Mathematics Department the late Professor George Adomian, Ph.D. with Armenian roots. He had earned a Ph.D. degree in physics from UCLA and held a chaired professor position in the Department of Mathematics. George was very bitter about the gross inhumane treatment of his family and all Armenians by the Turks in WWI. Not only was he a top physicist and scientist, as documented in the link below published in Pergamon Press, he had the guts and courage to stand up for justice when called. Fortunately he was Chairman of a Dean’s committee to determine the fate of two fine physics assistant professors who were being maligned by three secret letters by three members of the physics department who were not qualified to judge them anyway; without the courageous efforts of Professor George Adomian, Ph.D. they would have been on the street instead of promoted to Associate Professors with tenure. Read this fabulous memorial to him:
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82740828.pdf
By the way both were later promoted to full professor with one even to Regents Professor! Winfield J. Abbe, Ph.D., Physics
In Memoriam George Adomian (1922-1996)
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