Turkish government spokesman Ibrahim Kalin today warned the international community that they must not allow the Kurdish YPG to play any role in the invasion of the ISIS capital city of Raqqa if they want Turkey to be involved in the push.
Kalin said negotiations on the offensive are still ongoing, but said that cooperation between Turkey and the Kurds was “out of the question,” and that they would absolutely not play a role in the offensive if the Kurds are present in any form.
This is likely to be a major stumbling block in having such an offensive, since the US troops in the area are embedded almost exclusively with the Kurdish forces, and if the Kurds are cut out of the offensive it will boil down to Turkey and a few dozen US troops doing all the fighting.
The opposite possibility, the US attacking Raqqa with the Kurds but without Turkey, could be problematic too, as Turkey has warned they won’t accept any offensive in which the Kurds play a major role, and won’t accept the Kurds ending up with more territory in the fight.
Turkey can just do it alone. US is not even necessary nor is the coalition. Turkey can take on ISIS — they are really not that strong. Once they lose the arms supply and cash needed to sustain themselves — they will pack up tents and leave. US does not need Kurds — except as an excuse to stay permanently in Syria. So transparent.
The Kurds don’t need the treacherous Yankees among their ranks. A union of Russia and the PKK/YPG would shatter ISIS and their putrid puppet masters in Ankara. Putin and Ocalan need to wise up. Only they can save the Middle East. F**k Erdogan.
the proposed new kurdish nation will rob land from syria, iran, turkey and iraq.. and the benefactor of this new country will be america. Not to mention the enormous potential of economic development given to israeli companies..
the kurds, they are a group of fools if they think they can hitch the american and israeli bandwagon and get something , instead they are used as pawn..
if they kept entertaining unified kurdish nation , they will get a massive blowback from the nations that have kurdish minority on them..
they will get nothing
“the proposed new kurdish nation will rob land from syria, iran, turkey and iraq”
Why should land be presumed owned by the gang that happens to be taxing it at the moment, rather than by the people who actually live there and have lived there since long before any of those particular gangs (“governments”) existed?
are you talking about how the colonist arrived in america and systematically kick the real natives that been there for centuries ? natives that actually live there LONG BEFORE the colonist arrived ?
it is better to read up on history before you spout nonsense
“are you talking about how the colonist arrived in america and systematically kick the real natives that been there for centuries”
That would certainly be one such situation.
It doesn’t matter how much history you read up on — the nonsense you’re spouting will remain nonsense.