Stand up beside the fireplace. Totò&Peppino in Ankara.

“Another twenty minutes went by, and now I was determined. Without permission, I walked down the hall and tried to push open the door of the room that Erdogan and the vice president were meeting in. It was locked. I then told my counterpart that we were going to break through the door.”...“The video was so long and so obnoxious that I considered it a mental health issue!”...But Turkish security quickly let him through and US officials joined Erdogan’s meeting with Pence. “Erdogan and [Turkish intel chief Hakan] Fidan called me repeatedly to stress how the PKK—a US-designated terrorist organisation—was no different from the SDF. They claimed that if the United States supported the SDF, it would rupture our relationship with Turkey,” ...never seen such anger erupt so quickly in a room. [Chief Advisor to Turkish President Ibrahim] Kalin and Fidan exploded and then left quickly R. Soylu MEE

 'Dunford went to see the "Turkish occupation force" trained in Turkey. After the Turks repeatedly delayed this visit, he was finally allowed to review the troops. What he saw convinced him that the Turks had zero chance of defeating ISIS without massive US support. R. Soylu Twitter

Il generale Dunford ha anche un grosso ego.

E' poco corretto dire che SDF e PKK sono la stessa cosa. E' poco lungimirante sostenere che SDF non ha niente a che vedere con PKK.

Se si sceglie di stare con SDF, allo stesso tempo si fa una scelta di campo contro la Turchia.

Hakan Fidan sa essere teatrale al bisogno. Ama andare al cinema con i suoi. Se si toccano certe corde con lui, bisogna mettere in conto le conseguenze.

Assieme a Kalin ha costruito la strategia dei paletti.

L'importanza di avere a disposizione una scheda accurata del profilo dell'interlocutore nei palcoscenici internazionali. 

Di certo Erdogan l'aveva dal momento che ha scelto di rifilare, a due non proprio esperti di questioni complesse, il maxi video. La freddezza della sicurezza turca era parte del copione.