With Russia and America engaging in ever closer cooperation with Kurdish forces in Syria and with the question of President Assad’s war against terrorism changed from one of ‘if’ to a question of ‘when’, it is necessary to example what the relationship between Syria and the Kurds will be in the conflict’s aftermath.
Instead of fighting ISIS, Turkey and Iraq may go to war with each other.
La bataille de Mossoul est engagée en Irak, alors que la bataille d’Alep fait rage au même moment, en Syrie. Les combattants qui soutiennent l’armée irakienne dans cette offensive sont très divers (armée régulière, unités de contre-terrorisme, milices chiites, peshmergas, les combattants des tribus sunnites de Mossoul… sans oublier bien sûr la « coalition internationale »).
Yannis Vasilis Yaylalı was brought up as a proud, nationalist Turk. From a fascist background, he joined the army in the 1990s, at a time when Turkey was waging its most brutal attacks ever on its Kurdish population. Yannis was eager “to go east and fight the Kurds.” After just a few months in the military, he was captured by […]
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By Salman Rafi Sheikh – New Eastern Outlook – 10.05.2016 Erdogan’s dream to revive Turkey’s ‘lost status’ as the most powerful Muslim country cannot be materialized, he and his advisers seem to believe, without first fundamentally altering Turkey’s own political system and this alteration is, he believes, incomplete without making him powerful. Hence, Erdogan’s emphasis […]
The Turkish government has become almost apoplectic over Washington’s support for the Kurdish militants in Syria. Erdogan this week repeated an ultimatum to US President Barack Obama “to back us, not the terrorists” – referring to the YPG. Ankara fears that the emboldened Syrian Kurds might eventually carve out a separatist state with their PKK comrades in southeast Turkey.
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The Burning Blogger of Bedlam | February 19, 2016 As Ankara has again been hit by deadly terrorism, Turkey’s Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, has been very quick to assign blame for Wednesday evening’s car bomb in Ankara that killed 28 people. All the evidence, he said, suggested that the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) […]
As Ankara has again been hit by deadly terrorism, Turkey’s Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, has been very quick to assign blame for Wednesday evening’s car bomb in Ankara that killed 28 people. All the evidence, he said, suggested that the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) were responsible. Davutoğlu’s declarations should be viewed with suspicion […]
RT | February 13, 2016 The Turkish army has shelled Syrian government forces in Aleppo and Latakia provinces, while also hitting Kurdish targets near the city of Azaz in northwestern Syria, including an air base recently retaken from Islamist rebels, with a massive attack. Anatolia news agency reported that the Turkish military hit Syrian government […]
Press TV – February 1, 2016 The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has called on Ankara to investigate reports that a number of unarmed people trying to attend to the injured victims of clashes in Turkey’s southeast in late January were themselves shot at. Ten people were injured when their group, which included two […]
