No country can criticize Turkey for its stance on the situation in Syria, says Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
“No one has a right to criticize Turkey and ignore the sacrifices our beloved nation had to make,” Davutoglu said in a televised speech among supporters in Istanbul on Sunday.
The Turkish premier made the comments in response to earlier remarks by US Vice President Joe Biden, who accused Turkey of financing and arming terrorists, for which he later apologized.
“It is impossible for us to accept this criticism,” Davutoglu said, adding, “If all the warnings that Turkey made had been heeded, these things would not have happened. It is our duty to point this out, no matter who we are dealing with.”
Biden called the allies in the region Washington’s “largest problem” in dealing with the situation in Syria, referring to Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, which the US “could not convince” to stop arming the ISIL Takfiri terrorists.
Turkish lawmakers authorized military operations against ISIL terrorists in Syria and Iraq on Thursday.
Syrian Foreign Ministry said a day later that Damascus would consider any Turkish military intervention in its territory as an act of aggression.
The ISIL terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, control large parts of Syria’s northern territory. The ISIL sent its militants into Iraq in June, quickly seizing vast expanse of land straddling the border between the two countries.
Since September 22, the US and several of its Arab allies– Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, — have been conducting airstrikes against the ISIL inside Syria without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate.
The Syria air campaign is an extension of the airstrikes, launched since August 8, on ISIL positions in Iraq, where five European countries– Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Britain and France– have committed aircraft to the military operation.
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