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Re:Turkey's Financial Crisis by sudosysgen on Friday December 24, 2021 @04:18PM (#29677822)
Turkey is at least as much at fault as Saudi Arabia. They literally straight up pay salaries to wahabbi terrorists. The US also financed a lot of them.
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Re:Turkey's Financial Crisis by worik on Friday December 24, 2021 @05:44PM (#29678491)
> They literally straight up pay salaries to wahabbi terrorists

Really? I did not know that. Have you a source?

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Re:Turkey's Financial Crisis by sudosysgen on Saturday December 25, 2021 @12:03AM (#29680595)
I do :

> The Turkey-backed FSA's wages are paid for by the Turkish government, they operate alongside the Turkish Armed Forces

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_National_Army

As for their terrorist proclivities:. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/14/turkish-backed-forces-f...

To be fair though, they basically took over the CIA operations.

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Re:Turkey's Financial Crisis by ejanus on Friday December 24, 2021 @09:59PM (#29679952)
Until Trump appeared on the scene. You missed that out.
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Re:Turkey's Financial Crisis by sudosysgen on Saturday December 25, 2021 @12:07AM (#29680612)
Actually, it continued for two years at least into the Trump presidency, see Operation Timber Sycamore.
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