Turkey will not let Turkish territory or airspace be used in any activity that could harm the security or safety of Syria.
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But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.
Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.
That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.
If one has problems with immigrant communities in Europe, that should not be used against Turkey.
The Kurds will not be allowed to have an independent country because Turkey wouldn't stand for it; they have their own Kurdish population.
Turkey wants to see Bashar al-Assad go and wants to kind of expand its sphere of influence into Turkey so its Ottoman glory or Ottoman past are once again project into the Syrian provinces. That's kind of what Turkey's vision is.
Turkey knows the importance of its ties with Israel; it knows it's in the same moderate camp with Israel, the moderate Palestinians and other Muslim countries, and the threat to Turkey is not from us.
Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah.
Turkey's a NATO member. If Turkey gets attacked, we have to help defend Turkey.
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