Kremlin has nothing to lose but a good opportunity to have a significant long-term gain if the Turkish operation is successfully conducted
On August 4, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
declared in a speech
during an opening ceremony that Turkey will launch a military operation in Syria’s terrorist PKK/YPG-occupied eastern Euphrates region. After the official declaration of the upcoming operation, there occurred the question of “how will it affect the bilateral relations between Russia and Turkey?” There will be no negative repercussion of the ...
... Branch”, is about to reach its objectives. Since its commencement on January 20, the Turkish border operation has been pursuing several objectives; primary among them is clearing the Afrin region of the PYD armed groups who pose a direct threat to Turkey’s national security due to their connection to the Turkey-based terrorist organization Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK, Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê).
Despite its efforts to explain to the international community the underlying motives behind the deployment of troops on Syrian soil, the Turkish government has not received messages of solidarity, either from ...
... Kurdish youths' march in Suruc was bombed by unidentified rogues, killing over 30 demonstrators, while the Turkish army raided the PKK camps in Iraq. The terrorists responded by calling off the truce and launching their attacks in many Turkish cities. As of ... ... predominantly patriotic Turks went out on the nationwide march under the antiterrorist slogans, sometimes looting shops belonging to Kurds.
No peace is likely in Turkey until Erdogan obtains the constitutional majority but his victory seems hardly probable.
However, governmental strategists’ ...
