A member of an expert body advising Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted that Ankara is prepared to go to war with Russia after tensions over Syria’s Idlib province escalated over the past 24 hours.
Mesut Hakki Casin, who is a member of Turkey’s Security and Foreign Policy Board advising Erdogan, made his comments shortly after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an airstrike by Russian-backed Syrian government forces in Idlib province.
We have fought Russia 16 times in the past, and we will fight it again.
The official pointed to Russia’s sizeable Muslim population and claimed that the country “will be shattered from inside” should an armed conflict break out between Moscow and Ankara.
