Turkse invasie in Syrie aanstaande, VS trekt zich terug #4

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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister says the European Union is being “insincere” with Turkey on its efforts to join the bloc.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Monday during a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the EU needs to decide whether it wants “comprehensive, deep cooperation” with Turkey or not.

Turkey’s negotiations to become a full EU member were launched in 2005 but have stalled in the past few years.

Orban says “I don’t remember a time when we told a candidate country that we want to negotiate, while significant countries said that we will never admit that country into the European Union.”

Orban, who sees Turkey as a role model, also said stability in Turkey and its efforts to stop the flow of migrants into Europe were crucial for Hungary’s security.

https://www.apnews.com/9fef8d0e97ae46f58f86c45a1a4793ab

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was given a warm welcome in Hungary Monday (8 October) just weeks after Ankara's strained relations with other EU nations were thrown into sharp relief in a tense visit to Germany.

The Turkish leader has had staunch support from Budapest even as EU relations waver, with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán among the first to congratulate Erdogan on his re-election in July and one of the few European officials to attend the inauguration ceremony in Ankara.

A fierce critic of what he sees as an undemocratic Europe, Orbán has repeatedly hailed the "stability" that he perceives the Turkish regime offers.

"Turkey's stability is the guaranty of our security," he said at a joint press conference with Erdogan, referring to the role of Turkish authorities in controlling migration into Europe.

He urged Europe to put in place a "strategic cooperation with Turkey, at all costs".

The visit comes after a sensitive trip to Germany at the end of September, as Berlin and Ankara face the daunting task of rebuilding relations and trust battered by a succession of disputes.

Turkey's relations with Germany - and other key EU states - had hit historic lows in the aftermath of the 2016 failed coup to oust Erdogan as Berlin took issue with the scope of the remorseless crackdown afterwards that also caught up German nationals.

Ankara needs the EU as relations with the United States deteriorate and the Turkish economy, very dependent on trade with Europe, is in difficulty.

Erdogan's two-day visit to Hungary will also allow him to show his critics that "no, the EU hasn't completely turned its back on Turkey," said Tamas Szigetvari, economics professor at Peter Pazmany University in Budapest.

"It's nice for him to visit an EU country where he isn't under fire for his record on human rights and democracy," the expert told AFP.

Turkey's 'cousins'

The Turkish leader and the Hungarian premier, who secured his third consecutive term in office in April, are perceived to be made of the same mettle - democratically elected but with authoritarian and distinctly anti-liberal tendencies.

Restrictions on freedom of expression in Turkey have come in for sharp international criticism, while Hungary risks sanctions from the EU over legislative changes seen as a threat to the rule of law and the bloc's values.

Relations between Hungary and Turkey may currently be cordial, but the two countries' history has not always been so friendly, and Hungary was occupied by the Ottoman empire for a century and a half between 1541 and 1699.

Nowadays, Erdogan professes nostalgia for the Ottoman empire, while Orbán's government promotes so-called "turanist" theories, hotly disputed by historians and linguists, that see Turkish and Finno-Ugric languages, including Hungarian, as sharing a common origin.

On a visit to Kyrgyzstan in September, Orbán lauded Hungarian as a "strange and unique language related to Turkish languages".

Tamas Szigetvari argues that such theories enable Orbán to portray Hungary as a sort of distant cousin to countries in Asia that Budapest is wooing for economic reasons.

But not everyone is happy about the cordial relations between the two countries: a small centre-left party said that a demonstration it had been planning to protest Erdogan's visit has been banned under a new law that came into force this month that restricts freedom of assembly.

https://www.euractiv.com/(...)-welcome-in-hungary/

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NPA_SY twitterde op woensdag 09-10-2019 om 20:54:11 #Breaking#SDF destroyed a Turkish armored vehicle while repelling Turkish army attack in the village of Ein Diwar, west of Dirk, in the triangle border point between Syria, Iraq and Turkey. https://t.co/MkaM4fZqoR reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 9 oktober 2019 21:08 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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NPA_SY twitterde op woensdag 09-10-2019 om 20:54:11 #Breaking#SDF destroyed a Turkish armored vehicle while repelling Turkish army attack in the village of Ein Diwar, west of Dirk, in the triangle border point between Syria, Iraq and Turkey. https://t.co/MkaM4fZqoR reageer retweet

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genctarihciler_ twitterde op woensdag 09-10-2019 om 21:02:26 @NPA_SY Don't believe the false news that tries to demoralize the Turkish army and its people reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 9 oktober 2019 21:14 schreef LelijKnap het volgende:

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genctarihciler_ twitterde op woensdag 09-10-2019 om 21:02:26 @:NPA_SY Don't believe the false news that tries to demoralize the Turkish army and its people reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 9 oktober 2019 21:15 schreef vigen98 het volgende:
Dat vind ik ook altijd zo fascinerend. Denken die mensen dat de SDF met waterballonnen vecht en niet met echte wapens? Manmanman zo wereldvreemd en te trots om zelfs nog te erkennen dat er gewonden en doden vallen aan jouw kant.

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Partisangirl twitterde op woensdag 09-10-2019 om 21:20:08 Tulsi is correct, the Trump isn’t doing a complete pull out. US soldiers will still be occupying #Syria’s oil fields and preventing Kurds from reconciling with the Syrian government, their only saviours. https://t.co/am3n3XrAXl https://t.co/27y85a7DkG reageer retweet

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TulsiGabbard twitterde op woensdag 09-10-2019 om 19:27:32 The hypocrisy of war-mongers like Nikki Haley, Senator Graham & others who have demanded that we continue our regime change war in Syria, who are now crying crocodile tears for the Kurds, is nauseating. Starving the Syrian people through draconian sanctions ... (4/5) reageer retweet

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breaknieuws twitterde op woensdag 09-10-2019 om 21:21:58 @Mirjam152 @Repelsteeltje21 The largest Christian Neigbourhood in NE Syria is being bombed. This is a targeted ethnic cleansing. The bombing is going way way beyond Erdogan claims. Something very huge is happening. #KurdsBetrayed #Turkey #KurdsBetrayedByTrumphttps://t.co/Snd1DLxDn5 reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 9 oktober 2019 21:28 schreef TeenWolf het volgende:
Ik zou maar even goed de projectielhulzen checken en kijken van welke partij ze afkomstig zijn. Turkije heeft er geen baat bij om dat te doen.