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Incoming Turkey Correspondent for E-mail: ragip.soylu@protonmail.com

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Dec 7

    A personal annoucement: After 4 years in Washington, I will start to work as Turkey Correspondent for beginning on January 1. Hope will strike back with numerous scoops on Turkey

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  2. 30 minutes ago

    Here is the complete Turkish readout on Erdogan, Trump phone call on Syria • A power vacuum should be prevented otherwise withdrawal and transition process could be abused

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  3. 35 minutes ago

    BREAKING — Erdogan, Trump agreed to avoid ‘power vacuum’ in Syria, Turkish Presidential readout on the phone call says

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  4. 1 hour ago

    BREAKING — Erdoğan told Trump that Turkey is ready to provide any support to the United States in Syria — Anadolu

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  5. 2 hours ago

    KEY PHRASE in this Trump announcement: “The slow and highly coordinated pullout of US troops from Syria” Turks would like to have a slow and orderly withdrawal of US troops, without creating a vacuum

    I just had a long and productive call with President of Turkey. We discussed ISIS, our mutual involvement in Syria, & the slow & highly coordinated pullout of U.S. troops from the area. After many years they are coming home. We also discussed heavily expanded Trade.
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  6. 5 hours ago

    US military HAS PROMISED, — “Marine honour” — that they would collect the weaponry they have delivered to “Syrian Kurdish” YPG once they are done with them. Will they though?

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  7. Retweeted
    Dec 22

    Day 1 Narrative: "SDF is a multi-ethnic coalition with local legitimacy" Day 2 Narrative: "Trump abandons Kurds!" One of these is an over-simplification. Im actually at a loss at this point over which one it is.

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  8. 17 hours ago

    Look I don’t particularly agree with how McGurk has handled anti-ISIS fight. But let’s not rewrite history here

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  9. 17 hours ago

    Trump’s tweet on McGurk is actually bullshit because everyone has already known that Trump had liked him, because he was showing POTUS fancy maps indicating progress against ISIS. For him, McGurk was delivering

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  10. 22 hours ago

    The moral of the story: You cannot completely execute a military plan in the doors of an opposing NATO ally and major power in the Middle East while it perceives the whole thing as not an anti terror operation but something that threatens its very existence.

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  11. 22 hours ago

    McGurk’s legacy: • Reshaped the Iraq policy in favour of secretarian Maliki, which in part played a role in the rise of ISIS • Designed an anti-ISIS fight based on a partnership with a US designated terror group. Now it is also in ruins due to miscalculations

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  12. Retweeted
    Dec 22

    I can see the smile on President Erdogan’s face.

    Breaking - Brett McGurk, the President’s envoy to the coalition against ISIS, has resigned his post effective December 31. He had planned to exit in 2019 but accelerated the departure due to disagreement with the snap decision to pullout of Syria.
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  13. Dec 22

    Ambassador Jim Jeffrey, the special representative for Syria engagement, is expected to stay in his position, U.S. officials said — AP

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  14. Dec 22

    Must be hard for McGurk though, everything he has built since 2014 is about to get destroyed

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  15. Dec 22

    McGurk’ün görev süresi zaten Ocak sonunda bitecekti. Giderken de şov yapıyor

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  16. Dec 22

    Washington’dan ayrılmadan önce bugünleri de gördüm ya, ne kadar şükretsem az 🤣

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  17. Retweeted
    Dec 22

    Accelerated by barely two weeks. Courage.

    Breaking - Brett McGurk, the President’s envoy to the coalition against ISIS, has resigned his post effective December 31. He had planned to exit in 2019 but accelerated the departure due to disagreement with the snap decision to pullout of Syria.
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  18. Dec 22

    Brett McGurk had been planning to exit his post in February 2019 anyway, according to CBS News. In 2018, his time in the post was extended for two times, each 6 months

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  19. Dec 22

    Turkish twittersphere has already started to celebrate SE McGurk’s resignation over US withdrawal from Syria. Turks will remember him with this picture, posing with a PKK commander, a US designated terror group

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  20. Dec 22

    BREAKING — Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the global coalition fighting the ISIS, has resigned in protest to President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria — AP

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  21. Dec 21

    ISIS, acc to Trump himself, had been defeated, Erdogan said in a phone call. Turkey’s military was strong and could take on any remaining militant pockets. Why did some 2K U.S. troops still need to be there? “You know what? It’s yours,” Trump said of Syria. “I’m leaving” (WP)

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