Erdogan confirms ‘aid’ to Turkish military post inside Syria

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Source: Hurriyet Daily News

A Turkish convoy has carried “aid” into Syria, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on April 23, responding to claims that Turkish forces have started an operation against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) near the tomb of Süleyman Shah, which sits 25 kilometers from the border and remains under Turkish sovereignty under a 1921 treaty.

“Right now, the issue is not about ISIL. The job of our convoy there is to transfer aid to the Süleyman Shah tomb. Our friends in charge are continuing the effort,” Erdoğan told journalists after hosting primary school students in Ankara for national Children’s Day.

Social media accounts regarded as close to ISIL had reported earlier on April 23 that six Turkish tanks, 12 armored vehicles and 300 Turkish soldiers had been deployed 200 meters from ISIL positions in northern Syria, quoting eyewitnesses. Same sources claimed the ISIL also reinforced its own forces.

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu reiterated on March 14 that Turkey had the right to “take all precautions to protect the tomb,” following clashes between the Free Syrian Army and ISIL in the area. Energy Minister Taner Yıldız also said on March 20 that there was “no difference” between the land of the tomb and Ankara.

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[Jesus Malverde]

1. Since bandar bush got canned...

It must be lonely for edrogan as the largest supporter of terrorism in the world.

[nyabingi]

2. Correct!

[happyslug]

3. While the tomb is considered part of Turkey, it is located in Syria on the Euphrates River.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Suleyman_Shah

It is the tomb of Osman I Grandfather. Osman I is the founder of the Ottoman Empire. Osman lived from 1258 to 1326. Three Dates are important in his raise to power

1204 - the fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusades (the only Crusade CONDEMNED by the Vatican at the time of the Crusade).

1258 - The fall of Baghdad to the Mongols. The Mongols report that Baghdad was the largest and richest city they ever took, and this is AFTER they had taken many of the Cities of China. Till 1204 that position was held by Constantinople, but after 1204 Constantinople went into a slow but steady decline. Thus Baghdad had passed Constantinople in population and wealth either in 1204 or shortly afterward.

1261, the Greeks of Nicaea take back Constantinople from the Latin Empire, but the resulting "Empire" is much smaller, poorer and weaker then it had been in 1204.

Thus Osman was able to recruit Moslems fleeing the Mongols, and even Greek Christians who rejected the increasing tendency of the Byzantine Empire to make accommodations with the Latin West as the Empire looked for any ally it could. The resulting Ottoman Empire was as much Greek as it was Islamic and that joint rule would be the characteristics of the Ottoman Empire till the 1600s (When a "reform" movement within the Ottoman Empire made the Janissaries, previously Christian slaves purchased and converted to Islam, to be the sons of high ranking Moslems, In the process the Greek/Orthodox connection to the Turkish/Islamic disappeared and with it the unity of the Empire. The Ottoman Empire would last another 200 years, but it would be the sick man of Europe as its peoples went each on their own way with only nominal support for the Empire as a whole). In fact many of the Noble families of the Ottoman Empire remain Orthodox till the 1600s, when the pressure for all nobles to be Moslem became overwhelming.

Thus Osman is the Founder of the Ottoman Empire, which the modern state of Turkey claims descent from. Thus anything to do with Osman has high value for the Turks and why they have concerns about that tomb.