The Turkish military’s leadership has seen substantial reshuffling in the past few days, but the focus seems to be the same: fighting Kurds. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today suggested that such a move could be happening in Syria very soon.
Turkish forces within Syria have been trading fire with the Kurdish YPG for weeks, and Erdogan insisted in comments over the weekend that Turkey could never leave “the separatist organization” active in either Syria or Iraq going forward.
“We know that if we do not drain the swamp, we cannot get rid of flies,” Erdogan insisted. With much of the YPG committed to fighting ISIS in Raqqa, they might be more vulnerable to a Turkish push now, though this would likewise risk ruining the US-backed Raqqa invasion.
It is this concern that has driven US policy in Syria, trying to calm Turkey as much as possible, and to position US forces in areas that would complicate any major Turkish offensives, by risking them getting US troops in the process. Still, both sides believe war is inevitable, and the US efforts are only going to hold off that fight for so long.
Turkey does everything to save ISIL terrorists. How can Islamist Erdogan be a a Partner? Why is the World silent when Turkey attacks kurdish Anti-ISIL fighters?
Try to remember — anything our media demonizes is people or events that undermines their agenda.
The world is silent over a lot of things, including the lack of democracy in Turkey that has contributed to Kurdish separatist ambitions. The world doesn’t turn around the whims of US interests and the latest arbitrary designation of who is enemy #1. There is a lot more between Turkey and the Kurds than ISIL.
Well, if Erdogan’s swamp draining is anything like Trump’s, the place is going to be burgeoning with all manner of terrorists in short order.
Wrong. This article reflects the MUDDLE our Soviet style media keeps pushing.
I see nothing about Soviets in the article, but I do see swamps mentioned. Thanks anyway for trying.