... and Iraq).
There is little doubt that a “prospective operation” means preparing for a military campaign against the U.S.-supported “Syrian Democratic Forces” (SDF), whose backbone is formed by the radical left-wing People’s Defense Units (YPG) affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)—Turkey put it on the list of terrorists. This is what Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan
said on May 23
.
Turkey’s leader articulated his threats as Ankara attempts to block Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO, since these states support the PKK....
... outraged in the last 72 hours over our Syria policy than they were at any point during 7 years of slaughter.”
The ordinary American citizen may not know that official US departments and agencies supported and supplied arms to the Kurdish militias PYD and YPG (Syrian offshoot of PKK enlisted as terrorist by NATO), which carried out ethnic cleansing against Arabs in Syria and have sought to establish an autonomous entity. Amnesty International revealed in a report in 2015 that the PYD committed war crimes ...
.... The Peace Corridor designated by Turkey
contains several sine-qua-non subjects
that must be achieved. First, the depth of the safe zone planned to be created in northern Syria has to be 32 km. Second, the control of this region has to be given to Turkey. Third, this area has to be cleared from the PKK/YPG terrorist (
Editor's note: The PKK/YPG have been designated as a terrorist group by Ankara
). However, these three essential conditions to ensure Turkey’s national security prospects contradict the offers made by U.S delegations.
Considering the ...
... including in terms of the presence of nuclear weapons in Turkey. Tensions began to mount with the onset of the Syrian crisis and the increasing rift between Washington and Ankara with regard to the approaches of the two countries in fighting DAESH. Turkey, for one, was unhappy with the U.S. support for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which are dominated by the YPG (People’s Protection Units), the armed wing of the PYD (Democratic Union Party)- both, as Ankara stresses, affiliated with the PKK. The YPG gained control of major border towns in northern Syria after the withdrawal of the government forces [
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...
... partners.”
Evgeniia Drozhashchikh, Rethinking Russia expert and postgraduate student at Lomonosov Moscow State University, asked Michael Gunter, professor of political science at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville and authority on Kurds in Turkey and Iraq, and Kerim Has, PhD in Political Science, expert on international affairs and Russia-Turkey relations with RIAC, about their views on Trump’s motives and willingness to use “the Kurdish card” in elevating relations with either one ...
