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leftoverrice54 t1_jec0fvg wrote

Wow. I didnt think Turkey would do it. Honestly.

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Singer211 t1_jec5874 wrote

Turkey seems to have beef with Sweden far more than Finland.

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ArenSteele t1_jecc41c wrote

Yes, specifically Sweden is harbouring dissident refugees from Turkey, and Erdogan considers them terrorists (because they won’t vote for him)

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odinskriver39 t1_jece8ww wrote

In a just world there would be a country called Kurdistan.

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shaidyn t1_jeeyt45 wrote

Also Somaliland.

But the powers that be can't recognize breakaway states because it sets a precedence for their hegemony breaking up.

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ivytea t1_jed22lt wrote

There would have been by now had there not been the stupid orange head who betrayed the Kurds

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JTanCan t1_jedy41w wrote

No U.S. president has supported the creation of an independent Kurdish state. Iran doesn't want it, Iraq doesn't want it, Syria doesn't want it, Turkey doesn't want it.

Europe doesn't support it either.

Trump is a lot of things but he's not single-handedly responsible for torpedoing Kurdish statehood.

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Thedudewhosmokedpot t1_jee5ujt wrote

This is reddit." Trump bad"

Edit: it's especially bad because there's no shortage of actual things he did people can attack him for instead of making up stuff and blaming him for every single thing that's ever happened.

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concerned_llama t1_jedlqhg wrote

Did they really have any chance?

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ivytea t1_jedm3gy wrote

There are still lots of footages on the internet showing YPG destroying Turkish tanks and helicopters using American weapons. That was Obama’s legacy until that orange head who openly admired Putin and Xi found more in common with Turkey’s Erdo who essentially became a dictator after the coup

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Roxy- t1_jedw65h wrote

They had just been a puppet until the USA was done with them.

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Anonuser123abc t1_jeckrd0 wrote

They have to be accommodating sometimes. Were it not for an accident of geography, Turkey would have absolutely no shot at NATO membership. Sometimes they have to throw the rest of NATO a bone.

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LuvYouLongTimeAgo t1_jecpxow wrote

He probably wasn’t going to get funding to help the Earthquake survivors and with rebuilding.

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