U.S. President Donald Trump speaking at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Jan. 21, 2017.
CIA Director Pompeo’s visit to Ankara is likely to aid Trump’s efforts in removing the anti-American sentiment prominent among Turks, which is the heritage of the failed Obama policies
There are deep traces of previous U.S. administrations in the collective memory of the Turkish people. When invasions that caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people in the Middle East and military coups in Turkey are mentioned, the U.S. comes to mind as the first responsible country. Unfortunately, these traces became deeper during the Obama administration.
Obama overtly provided weapons to the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the Syrian wings of the outlawed PKK, which is on the terror list of nations around the world, on the pretext that they are fighting Daesh terrorists. And this terrorist organization carried out dozens of terror attacks that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,000 people in Turkey in the past year alone.
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Anitkabir is the burial place of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the leader of the Turkish independence movement and the country’s first official president
Categories: The Muslim Times, Turkey, United States
ir we consider that Obama’s policies were – in line with previous Presidents, and possibly the present one too – to spread DESTABILIZATION AND DESTRUCTION in Arab countries, there were no failures, but achievements all along.