Is the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)’s sudden support for Syrian President Bashar Assad an excuse for Turkey to invade Syria, or a risk so great it might convince Turkey not to launch a planned incursion to create a buffer zone?
Since PKK commander Murat Karaylian’s recent comments, promising to turn “all of Kurdistan into a war zone” if Turkey invades, the speculation about a Turkish ground invasion of Syria has centered entirely around the Kurds.
A complicated situation made moreso – Turkey is accusing Assad, a long-time Turkish ally, of using the PKK as an auxiliary wing against the rebel forces. Yet Turkey’s backing of the SNC and FSA rebel factions was in many ways a cynical effort to tamp down calls for Kurdish autonomy in Syrian Kurdistan by replacing Assad with a more populist Sunni Arab faction.
In many ways, the PKK’s insinuation into events is exactly what Turkey wanted, a direct Kurds versus Sunni Arabs battle. Yet the Turkish-backed rebels are losing the civil war quickly, and the oft-threatened direct Turkish invasion threatens to make the PKK violence inside Turkey itself dramatically worse, a risk it seems they can ill afford to take.
Let's have a nice big regional war. Let's put the Ottoman Empire back together again. You Turkish poltroons want to fight. Go for it. I dare you.
Actually the Ottoman Empire/Caliphate was quite good.
There were none of the 'countries' we know now – which are arbitrary zones drawn on the map by the were in London and Paris, during the early 20th Century, e.g. the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration.
It's ironic that European powers want a common market without borders, because that was the Ottoman Empire for centuries, together with freedom of religious expression.
For about a thousand years there was little trouble between Sunnis, Shias, Copts, indigenous Jews, Druze, Christian Orthodox and a myriad other sects.
It is Western propaganda that the ME has always been at war within itself.
The West certainly has been for a thousand years and has been trying to make the East 'just like us' since times of the Crusades.
BTW I am not a Moslem, I just happen to know history and that eveything has turned to pot over the last 100+ years, since the West turned to oil to fuel its industrial for of civilization.
This explains why the US sent their top CIA shill calling on Egypt a couple weeks back. In case there were any doubts.
If US and EU/NATO wanted to have a regional war they would have started by now, they don't dare because they know that is not a winnable, they know that European, nor Turkish people nor American will support them, they know that they can not afford in such economic time with almost 30% unemployment in Europe and in general people would be able to pay for one more war, they simply have no other ways to collect the money but going to steal their peoples gold to pay for such war, that is to say if such scenario would make up for the costs of war, as it's happening in US and elsewhere, the capitalism governments are bankrupt so they need to steal from their people by cutting education, healthcare, and other services that people have fought for for last 50 years, eliminating peoples rights all to gather. It is not in their “interests” to have an Oil cerise in one hand and the other for Oil companies celebrating wars where they highjack the price of gasoline and telling governments to go and do whatever. But I totally agree, I dare you idiots to start the regional war.
The Turkish government has lost their minds. With their enthusiastic support of NATO aggression in Libya and Syria, driven by their foolish desire to be a part of a collapsing EU who will take from them but never accept them, they're shattering whatever trust and good will they spent the last decade building with the Arabs (Oil Sheiks don't count as Arabs; they've joined the Western crime gang) and Persians.