Fresh off his election victory, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is once again stepping up the rhetoric against the Kurdish YPG, the largest Kurdish faction in Syria, vowing “all necessary measures” to keep them advancing deeper into ISIS territory.
While the US is continuing to expand its support for the YPG, Turkey has become increasingly more bellicose, insisting they are prepared to use force against the US-armed faction to prevent them gaining any more territory, particularly spreading west across the Euphrates River.
The YPG’s most recent territorial gain, the town of Tel Abyad in Raqqa Province, didn’t set well with Turkey either, and Turkish troops opened fire on YPG fighters across the border into Tel Abyad. The Kurdish forces didn’t return fire that time, but the two sides seem to be heading toward overt hostilities.
Though Turkey’s Syria policies have centered on trying to prevent increased Kurdish autonomy, the policy has become much more aggressive since the resumption of the war against the PKK inside Turkey and Iraq, with Erdogan insisting the YPG is effectively part of the PKK, and confusingly that ISIS is also the same group, somehow.
Which is one of the reason for him to be re elected, to kill more of Kurdish people which is desired by NATO leaders. In that regard USG is at war with Turkish Erdogan regime when USG helping kurdish fighters to fight the Saudis barbarians Isis. In the other hand and if you think about it, USG-Joe Biden strategy is for Kurdish people to have their own country in Syria and Iraq which in reality is about remapping Iraq and Syria now when USG agreed for the legitimate Syrian government to take part in peace planed for Syria.
So let's take a look at the position of the US and its allies:
On one hand, the US sporadically bombs IS (islamic state) and alnusra (alqaida in Syria), but on the other hand allows its allies the Turks, the Qataris and Saudis to arm the army of conquest which is made up of several factions of which alnusra is the main force. Then we have the US assisting the Syrian kurds in their fight against IS, but on the other hand we have Turkey firing at these kurds and not only turning a blind eye to IS supply lines from Turkey, but also threatening to use force to prevent the kurds from cutting them off.
All of which is symptomatic of the power struggle going on within the US government. One faction knows that "Assad must go" is a non-starter, but its NATO allies are insisting on an end to the fighting and the refugee crisis. That faction is therefore trying to salvage at least a portion of the US strategy by creating a de facto Kurdish state in Northern Syria and Iraq, while ending the refugee crisis by cutting off the flow of arms from Turkey. The neocon-liberal interventionist faction wants to keep the chaos going, even at the risk of a conflict between Russia and the US.
Iran does not want an independent Kurdistan, and likely Russia respects that and will back that position. Russia is putting a lot of pressure on Erdogan to switch sides and abandon the Syrian rebels. He would be wise to do exactly that and voluntarily cut off the flow of arms and mercenaries while he still has some bargaining power to negotiate a truce with the PKK ultimately aimed at autonomy rather than Turkish partition. The alternative could end up being a partition of Turkey as well as Syria and Iraq. Iran will likely retain its Kurd majority region in any case.
A lot depends on the Kurds and whether they would accept autonomy from Syria rather than the state the US and Israel are likely offering them.
Just my informed opinion based on all the confusing reports I've seen in alternative media. I could be wrong.
Sound like a pack of lions ripping the flesh off an antelope.
Unhappy because of democratic win for AKP in turkey? Israel is unhappy. So why not paint Erdogan, the democratically elected leader as a dictator. stabdsrd tactics.
Resignation is right. Having failed in Turkey, PKK, tge terror group, has rebranded itself as YPG etc and is trying to setup a Marxist terror state in Syria.,this is a direct threat to Turkeys future. Tge US Air Force is the airfircecfir this Marxist -terrorist organization . So go figure. PKK, YPG alphabet soup are not democratic organizations. They have never allowed Kurds to be free or elect freely. armed PKK/YPG enforce it by armed intimidation.Kurdish nationalism is an instrument and project if Israel to create instability and civil war in Iraq, Syria and Turkey.
The US cannot do without Turkey. It needs to be able to use Turkish bases to fight in Syria. Given a choice between Turkey and the Kurds, the US has to choose Turkey.