Turkish army closed the ring around Afrin

The Turkish Armed Forces General Staff reports that units of the Turkish armed forces advancing on the Syrian Afrin from the western and eastern directions have joined to the north of the city

Our units, advancing to Afrin from the west and east, united north of the city

- it is spoken in the message of the Turkish military department

According to Anadolu, the Turkish army and the forces of the Syrian opposition working together with it took control of 12 villages, blocking the road between the regional center of Mabatly and the city of Afrin.

As Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said earlier, it is estimated that around 8-10 thousands of Kurdish militants are stationed in Afrin.

The operations involved F-16 aircraft of the Turkish Air Force, which inflict airstrikes on Kurdish positions on the Syrian-Turkish border.

At the same time, self-government Afrina, in turn, accused the Turkish side of launching artillery strikes against the city, which resulted in civilian casualties. In particular, it was reported on the application of air strikes on the hospital. Ankara denies all accusations.

Comments

[oleg-gr]

Turks act methodically and consistently. Other players also consistently make statements. Indicative punishment of the Kurds continues.

[dorz]

March 19, the Turks meet with the Americans in Syria, in the near future you can expect any turn.

[jovanni]

The plan of the Americans is being implemented little by little - Syria is unlikely to be reborn. Tearing it in pieces under our nose, and it is not known what we will get from this ...

[Simple]

19 March Prince Harry of Wales marries.

[Logall]

The simple one is this: we are discussing Syria here, its future fate, and he ... He remembered the Prince! A subject of Her Majesty? Is it from Peter? There will be no consulate!

[Simple]

Quote: Logall

here we are discussing Syria, its future fate, and he ... Prince remembered!

Well, it is not known which is more important. ...

[Logall]

The world may be on the verge of a world war. Much revolves around Syria. In addition: the Russian Armed Forces are in Syria, which is important for the Russians. Well, your news is important only for fans of the English, royal family, because it does not bring any changes in the world, and indeed in England itself.
More important, probably only for you.

[Simple]

Quote: Logall

More important, probably only for you.

One can argue for anything, but there will be no war until March 19 inclusive - this is on the topic of the significance of the event.

[Ascetic]

Quote: dorz

March 19, the Turks meet with the Americans in Syria, in the near future you can expect any turn.

Erdogan demanded that the United States withdraw all the forces of the YPG from the west bank of the Euphrates and especially from Manbij. This will be negotiated on March 19. And since the Turks are planning an operation against Iraqi Kurds in April, the United States does not have much time to solve the existing problem with Turkey, the United States does not have much time to solve the existing problem with Turkey

[Simple]

Kurds will be poured. The most distinguished ones will be technically “asked” to move closer to Iran.

[RASKAT]

This is not surprising, against the Kurdish militia a regular army, with artillery, aviation, reconnaissance and tanks. You can’t argue against this, the result is quite expected. In Iraq that year, several tanks and aircraft were enough for the Kurds to surrender Kirkuk, and here it is.

[seregatara1969]

Kurds have always fought - the Turks don’t need such a neighbor and Syria isn’t!

[Dormidont]

Chess game: Kurds bet on usa and lose

[Dezinto]

Chess game: Kurds bet on usa and lose

ahem, .... just playing .....
If there is still a horse and a rook, the outcome may be unexpected.
It depends on the balance of power on the table .....

[Andrey K]

Quote: DEZINTO

... ahem ... just playing .....
If there is still a horse and a rook, the outcome may be unexpected.
It depends on the balance of power on the table ...

Nikolay, take care of your strength, you will still be useful to us

[Dezinto]

Nikolay, take care of your strength

Everything is fine, I am persistent, I can sit this way all night and not even forget all the necessary schemes and formulas.

[Andrey K]

Quote: DEZINTO

... Everything is fine, I am persistent, I can sit this way all night and not even forget all the necessary schemes and formulas ...

Well, thank God, it eased from my heart

[Nikolaevich I]

Quote: DEZINTO

Everything is fine, I am persistent, I can sit this way all night and not even forget all the necessary schemes and formulas.

"But then there was romance ... a snack ..." (Vitsin.f. "Can't be")

[Doliva63]

Well, what if some horses are around?
Two horses, by the way, can also be surprised if you are lucky.

[evil partisan]

Quote: Doliva63

Two horses, by the way, can also be surprised if you are lucky.

And HOW you can surprise your partner with a chess clock! Well, if you throw them accurately enough . Checked ...

[Dezinto]

surprise your partner with a chess clock!

Well this is not sports!

[Ascetic]

Quote: DEZINTO

Well this is not sports!

Grandmaster Bender doesn’t think so, a radical way to end the game by mixing all the figures that the Americans in Syria also intend to cut the Gordian knot.

[poquello]

Quote: Ascetic

Quote: DEZINTO

Well this is not sports!

Grandmaster Bender doesn’t think so, a radical way to end the game by mixing all the figures that the Americans in Syria also intend to cut the Gordian knot.

and for the chess bunny from "Well, wait a minute!" do not run into?

[bubalik]

And HOW you can surprise your partner with a chess clock!

,,, that's what happens if you play without hours

[Dezinto]

that's what happens if you play without hours

Well, a person wondered what’s happening here, .... I add even a minute like that .... sometimes it also hangs, .... there are many options!

But to think about the state of the skeleton is, of course, too much, I’d never get his answer.

[iliitchitch]

Quote: bubalik

,,, that's what happens if you play without hours

Actually, what was Comrade skeleton thinking so seriously about, judging by his position? How can this happen on the board ?

[Dezinto]

Well yes, well there ... apparently .... a black rook puts a check to the king, .... but at the same time the black king has a queen ..... or not a queen, ..... it's hard to see ... .I would also think for a long time .....
Or there is a lady next to the king .... this can not be at all!

[Simple]

Quote: iliitch

How can this happen on the board ?

Did he play with black?

[iliitchitch]

Quote: Simple

Did he play with black?

Analyzing the position, I came to the conclusion that someone stole two white rooks. But damn it, the position is still illogical! .

[Simple]

Be afraid of illogical situations in chess games!

[iliitchitch]

Quote: Simple

Be afraid of illogical situations in chess games!

Rooks back, checkmate in three moves, logic will triumph.
Although, with the rooks, it is not clear why blacks are still alive.

[Simple]

Quote: iliitch

Rooks back, checkmate in three moves, logic will triumph.

Ish you!
This is still chess, not fulfillment of desires.

[bubalik]

But damn it, the position is still illogical

,,, where is the trump card ?!

[iliitchitch]

Quote: bubalik

,,, where is the trump card ?!

After the 4th dose of Baltika, under the bream, I remembered that trump is a trump card. They say they gave him a colonel . However, it’s enough to play chess, we’ll move our visors in the “marriages” with the “X-rays”.
Either they will pile it uphill, or, well, damn it, a miserly thing with the "mistresses", the day of the backham would have happened. This is me, again, figuratively.

[Dezinto]

Well, what if some horses are around?

It doesn’t work out so that only one horse remains, there’s always a fucking pawn somewhere on the edge that spoils everything!

[Doliva63]

Are you playing chess exactly? I don’t, but since visiting a school chess club I remember that a pawn is not a hindrance.

[Dezinto]

that a pawn is not a hindrance

A pawn can be a very hindrance if it is in the right place at the end of the game ...
But it still needs to be conveyed there, long and methodically ..... and not noticeably!

(I hope everyone already understood that I'm not literally about chess, but about politics)
But not for nothing these two very different concepts are compared.

[Doliva63]

Yeah, any pawn, once at the right time in the right place can easily become a queen - chess and life are inextricable An example is Putin. His bodyguard is a governor in Tula. The future queen? And what? He trusted the body of Himself, did not fail. So the pawn is our everything

[BARKHAN]

Quote: Doliva63

Yeah, any pawn, being at the right time in the right place can easily become a queen - chess and life are inextricable

If you rephrase the classic ... "any pipette dreams of becoming an enema" ...
How interesting is the discussion of the Turk Kurds ... Saturday however ...

[poquello]

Quote: Doliva63

Well, what if some horses are around?
Two horses, by the way, can also be surprised if you are lucky.

it’s possible to surprise with a pawn, but it’s not chess, it’s studies

[Nikolai Grek]

Quote: Doliva63

Well, what if some horses are around?
Two horses, by the way, can also be surprised if you are lucky.

Yes, and pawns too, if they are pulled on the opposite side of the board !!! True, the Americans are constantly having some kind of problematic "pawns" !!!

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: DEZINTO

Chess game: Kurds bet on usa and lose

ahem, .... just playing .....
If there is still a horse and a rook, the outcome may be unexpected. It depends on the balance of power on the table .....

Logically, now there should be a voice from the UN about a humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan, which the United States will “pick up” and give birth to a resolution on a ceasefire so that the Kurds can keep the city under their control, catch their breath and get reinforcements. It was not necessary for them to get involved with mattresses, but it was necessary to accept the option of Kurdish autonomy within Syria. Now they are being spudded on all sides.

[Simple]

Quote: DEZINTO

If there is still a horse and a boat ...

With a horse more interesting.

[Korsar4]

Only in chess are all the pieces on the board, and new ones rarely appear. And here can be any alignment.

[Andrey K]

Quote from Korsar4

... And here can be any alignment ...

Each side understands the layouts in its own way, the unified rules are destroyed and the game went either to Chapaya or to put a board on your ears

[Korsar4]

Here is a good example. And this is not chess.

"We played ten games with Tal:
In preference, point and billiards.
Tal said: “This will not fail” (c).

[Doliva63]

Who plays "those" chess, sees all the pieces. And options. And they play with that in mind. Another thing is that there are two problems - objective (which you can’t go around) and subjective (fidelity to assess the situation). And here collisions arise, which can lead to negative results. Putin is trying to take into account the interests of too many participants, so he minimizes it in order to minimize errors. Ilyich, it seems, called it defeatist tactics. In my heart I agree with him.

[Dezinto]

Another thing is that there are two problems - objective (which you can’t go around) and subjective (fidelity to assess the situation). And here collisions arise,

Well, that’s what all modern politics looks like.
Damn ........ how did my life remind ..... a good picture.

[Nyrobsky]

Quote from Korsar4

Only in chess are all the pieces on the board, and new ones rarely appear. And here can be any alignment.

Here in the chess game the gain will be for those whose arguments are harder ...

[Korsar4]

No. Who sets the rules of the game. And all 36 strategies to help you.

[akims]

Yes, on the contrary, who is more flexible, and who can change the rules of the game ...

[prosto_rgb]

not surprising
everything went to this from the very beginning

[taiga2018]

as the saying goes, feel the difference, judging by the hysterical reaction of the West, in East Ghouta there is a civilian population suffering from military operations, and in Afghanistan, judging by the lack of reaction, there are "none ..."

[donavi49]

Well, there is a period - THINGS THAT ARE NOT Nailed! WHAT IS NARROWED AND TAKE OUT! At night, the leaders fled the city.

[Simple]

Quote: taiga2018

judging by the hysterical reaction of the West, in East Ghouta there is a civilian population suffering from hostilities, and in Afrien, judging by the lack of reaction, there are "none ..."

Everything has its time.

[Egorovich]

Kurds Afrin jumped, now it's Manbij's turn. Looks like they are jumping here.

[Livonetc]

Quote: dorz

March 19, the Turks meet with the Americans in Syria, in the near future you can expect any turn.

Nothing to expect
Turks will not believe amers now.
And they cannot miss the opportunity to fully iron the Kurds, and even to have Russia as their ally, but as their ally.

[Vol4ara]

What kind of alignment can be, this is not chess, cheating is only welcome here. US surrenders Kurds, March 19 will not change anything

[Herculesic]

Turkish allies -uzh Do not igil with Nusra? I wish, as it is not strange, it was precisely the Kurds that they drove the Turks to the Bosphorus at least!

[Doliva63]

I also root for the Kurds. Since the days of the USSR.

[Fedorov]

And I in the USSR did not know what they are Only a continuous funeral and a classic on TV - Brezhnev, Chernenko, Andropov ..
I was tying cartridges at my father, for which a star on my ass was imprinted from the front belt. Maybe that's why he became an officer.

[Fedorov]

. Ankara denies all allegations against it.

Pounding a wounded neighbor, a lot of honor? Although for Turkey, the Kurds are deadly.
They have already forgotten about the oil tankers that the Russian aerospace forces pounded .. And they are. In the piggy bank of Erdogan and his little son.
Here I don’t understand Putin at all. Do you need a Turkish stream?

[Sauron80]

Ours are wetting the bearded in Guta, the farther is wetting the Kurds - everyone is happy.

[Simple]

Why not understand?
A precedent is being created.

[demo]

There are no civilians in Afrin. There are Kurds and sympathizers for them.
It is important for the Turks to eliminate both the first and second.
For Assad, it is important to get an educated population.
And most importantly - this is not the hands of the Syrian military.
It all worked out.
Americans stand by and smoke nervously.

[Doliva63]

Quote: demo

Americans stand by and smoke nervously.

Looks like no. A missile strike in support of the militants, and it is not yet clear how it will end.

[Simon]

Quote: Dormidont

Chess game: Kurds bet on usa and lose

Yes, this is their biggest mistake! You can’t believe the Americans, they will surely deceive or set up!

[72jora72]

Not "IN", but the White Rook club is somehow ..................

[Hadji Murat]

Afrin is surrounded from the north, east and west, they left the road to the south, cut down the Kurds, give a chance, without too much blood ...

[Yarik]

And not a year has passed ... the Turks are still warriors.

[Roster]

As always, friendship with the United States does not lead to good. The Kurds became another rag which they used and threw away. True, it is unlikely that Poland, Ukraine and the Baltic States will draw the right conclusions from this.

[k_ply]

Well, the Turkish army ... Amer. Marines with an M198 howitzer in the photo?