After repeatedly demanding the US choose between them and the Kurdish YPG, Turkey is once again picking up demands for the US to sever all ties with the YPG, after accusing them of being behind this week’s Ankara bombing, which they deny.
The US rejected the demand, with the State Department saying this is “not about choosing sides,” and that the US has no intention of ending its contacts with the YPG. The White House did, however, say they’d warned the Kurds to stop seizing territory along the Syrian border.
The US has struggled with its ties with the YPG, as they’ve been the main faction fighting against ISIS, but have also tried tyo limit that support to the country’s east, because Turkey gets so angry when they gain territory around the Euphrates River.
This has meant the YPG depends on US air support in the east, but Russian air support around Aleppo Province, and has Turkey’s President Erdogan accusing the YPG of being in league with Russia at times, and in league with the US at other times.
I guess the Turks went to the Israeli school of diplomacy – they now figure that if they complain loudly enough and make unrealistic demands, like the Israelis, they’ll eventually get exactly what they want from the US – and probably far more than they originally asked…because the USg is soooo generous with American taxpayer $$$$$.
This aspect of the Syrian conflagration worries me. Maybe nothing will come of it, but if the Turks decide to take more radical action to stop the Kurdish factions fighting in the north, could end badly. What happens if the Turks, NATO ally, tangle with the Russians? Is this fear unfounded?
If they tangle with the Russians they will lose very badly and the unpopular current Government will be overthrown with or without US aid. Obviously the US helped Morsi into power in Egypt and will aid regime change in Turkey too.
Exactly why a great warrior, a real warrior George Washington said in his farewell speech NOT to entangle ourselves in the internal affairs of other nations and to NOT establish any alliances or we will be embroiled in what we see today by this corrupt establishment.
The US is looking for a more reasonable figure to head the Turkish Government, example being Egypt. Little doubt the next Turkish head of State will need to be vetted by Israel and seconded by Obama, then the regime change will begin.