It wasn't him as such, and the officials who made the claim left out the fact that all sorts of beardie nutters were helped (to such an extent that sent seems a fair term to describe it) into Syria by parts of the turkish state.
Jeez not as much slagging off as Erdogan him himself indulges in that article you liked to. He sounds increasingly bombastic pompous and odious by the minute.
Erdogan, Erdogan, does whatever an Erdo can.
So russia gave them a few MANPADS to warn Turkey. PKK become an imperialist plaything again. Turkey send loads into the FSA in north syria, regime copters that do barrel bombing finally become targets.
Of course - how odd to refer to then as SAMs though when that usage is really reserved to other examples.
Of course it's a matter of supporting whoever. See my post after this. What a stupid pointless and apolitical question. You may as well ask would expect a drowning man to grasp a hand offered to save them. It's in keeping with your apolitical approach though.
It makes your use of that term rather odd.
I think they came from russia and i think the PKK has been compromised for decades - whatever your western fantasy - when they allied with assad and saddam.
The US have made it their main business to make sure no one in the area gets MANPADS since late 2011 whilst allowing all sort of stuff to come through. Oct-feb russia comes in, clashes with turkey and suddenly the PKK has a manpad (and i think it will be two tops). That's a message from russia with love. Note this was turkey not syria btw. And if the SAA had loads of them looted by the rebels, where are the downed copters?
