On-again, off-again fighting between Syrian rebel factions and Kurdish militias have increasingly been going in favor of the Kurds, with a large portion of Syria’s northeast, which is mostly Kurdish to begin with, now under the control of those militias.
That’s got Turkish officials foaming at the mouth about the risk of an “autonomous region” being formed along the Syrian border, and Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc saying Turkey would never tolerate such a move.
Ironically Turkey is in many ways responsible for this turn of events, with the Erdogan government cheerfully backing Syrian rebels on the assumption that the “Arab nationalist” rebels would crack down more heavily on the Kurds than Assad was willing to.
Both the US-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the al-Qaeda factions in Syria have repeatedly clashed with Kurdish factions, trying to encroach into the Kurdish areas where the Assad government had little to no influence. It hasn’t gone nearly as well as Turkey would have hoped, however, and an autonomous Western Kurdistan seems increasingly a foregone conclusion.
There is this mess in middle east and part of it is this Turkish government, the other part is the Israeli apartheid regime, the Saudis and UAE and rest of the religious fundamentalism, lets go back to: there is a mess in Middle East, the most part of that mess is created by USA and EU government supporting USA who supports…, I think you get the point Jason.
Look people: the idea behind all these wars is to divid the once United Nations as in Iraq, as in Syria and etc. wars is the only understanding that these government or for that matter NATO countries have to experience with, they don't give a damn about democracy, what they see is to win on the horse they bet on, this time is the Saudis and UAE that they all bet on and now they are losing and losing big, so they have to come up with a new wars, this time is for Turkish government to start killing Kurdish people.
"Won't tolerate" means they would do something about it. What?
They ought to have thought of this before they enabled an insurgency right next door to the insurgency they have not been able to stop for decades. Fools.
I wonder how many Kurds live in that area north of the Syrian border surrounded by rivers. quite a lot judging by the turkish reaction.