As Turkish forces pounded both Syrian military targets and the Kurdish YPG, the US State Department has issued a statement calling for Turkey to de-escalate the situation and halt all future attacks, along with warning the Kurds not to seize any more territory.
The US position on the matter is a complicated one, as they’ve openly argued with Turkey about the status of the Kurds, but are allied with Turkey as NATO members, and have been backing the YPG in a lot of its recent territorial gains.
And it’s unlikely to change any minds, with Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu telling German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the attacks are going to continue unconditionally, and that the attacks are a “necessary response” to the Kurdish aggression.
Davutoglu went on to insist that Turkey is launching the attacks in Syria for Europe’s sake, and that if the Kurds weren’t stopped hundreds of thousands of more refugees are going to be fleeing from the territory the Kurds are taking from ISIS and other Islamist groups.
The Kurdish YPG isn’t perfect either. The YPG commits ethnic cleansing against Sunni Arabs. The YPG displaced Sunni Arabs and burned down entire villages. The YPG has threatened to order coalition airstrikes against Arab houses if the Arabs don’t leave. Over 10,000 Arabs have fled their homes in response of YPG advances.
So yes the YPG is displacing Arabs and is creating refugees.
The U.S. should stop funding, arming and training the Kurds. Erdogan was right in saying that the U.S. should not fund and arm the Kurds. If the U.S. keeps supporting the Kurds then Kurdistan will become an apartheid state like Israel. Israel commits discrimination against Arabs and Kurdistan too may commit discrimination against Arabs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Protection_Units#War_crimes_allegat
Russia should not defend the Kurds. Russia should adopt a noninterventionist foreign policy when it comes to this Turkey-Kurdishtan conflict. Any intervention will risk WW3. (An indespensible complementary step is for the U.S. to stop funding, arming and training the Kurds.)
Russia should do everything in its power to defend Syria, and its sovereignty. Your defense of the megalomaniac terrorist enablers in Ankara is beyond the pale. These vile racists have been intentionally targeting Kurdish civilians in SE Turkey, and did so without any provocation.
The same being said in Aleppo where the Syrian army with Russian help is destroying the invading terrorists FUNDED by Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.
Turkey is going to destroy itself since it has no capacity to see beyond its bravado! LONG LIVE THE KURDS!! People like you are the problem and are also culpable for the terror, and mass killings being done by Turkey.
Nothing like an inconsequential US Secretary of State and a nutcase in Ankara bent on ethnic cleansing to drag the world closer to a really bad place.
Turkey is a state sponsor of terror, and mass murder. Its leadership has no idea the wrath and utter destruction that will be set upon it should it not heed to reason. Lets hope that the Turkish populace rises up and gives Erdogan the Mussolini treatment.
“Davutoglu went on to insist that Turkey is launching the attacks in Syria for Europe’s sake, and that if the Kurds weren’t stopped hundreds of thousands of more refugees are going to be fleeing from the territory the Kurds are taking from ISIS and other Islamist groups.”
Is it just me, or is the rhetoric from Turkey reaching new heights of desperation and wackiness?
This is what happens when you join team Neocon. When things go south you get hung out to dry.
Assad was supposed to be gone, with Israel, Turkey, and the Sunni jihadists carving up the corpse. Whoops! Now Erdogan’s ass is in the “Bear” trap. With a capital “B”.
Erdogan seems to want to start WW3.