Having repeatedly threatened such an offensive in the past, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that a Turkish invasion of the Afrin District of northern Syria, held by Kurdish YPG forces, will be launched in the coming days.
Afrin has long been held by the YPG, nut not connected to the rest of the YPG’s territory in Syria. There have been exchanges between them and Turkish troops a few times over recent months, but the invasion has yet to happen.
The US has long tried to keep Turkey from attacking the Kurds, but Erdogan is now saying that he expects the US to “support” this operation, which he says is being done to “purge terror” from the border region.
Erdogan has long insisted he considers the YPG to be terrorists on par with ISIS, which has meant US support for the Kurdish group has caused a lot of tensions between the two sides. With US support for a new Kurdish border force, Turkey may believe chasing them out of Afrin needs to be done sooner, rather than later.
Too bad things between Antiwar.com and Sybel Edmonds are still horrible to non-existant. Turkey is her beat and she has good sources and instincts. She could most likely bring us up to speed on this situation and its likely outcome is a few minutes…. But alas, Keaton & Knapp had a nasty round with her about four, five years ago…. With Keaton calling her illiterate… Can you imagine calling her that….???? Maybe her English leaves a bit to be desired, but she is fluent enough to get it in English without any rational doubt.. And I believe she is fluent in Turkic languages and Farsey too. Keaton also accused her of being antisemitic… Go figure….
As it Turns out, Turkey was right all aling, and accepting US promises us niw making them look stupid. Secessionists are not some heros, but recepients if foreign miney and armaments to undermine their own country advancing somebody elses interests. And now, there us a blend of Turkish Kurds and Syrian YPG. Guving PKK esentially a space to arm and hide. Border to Turkey will be erased. Turkey may have to fight ZKyrds in Syria, which means fighting US. What a mess.
You’re right secessionist are not hero’s but, traitors like those Pro-Russian rebels that are being armed and financed by Russia but, I guess since it’s America doing the same thing in Syria now we’re evil for doing the same thing you defend Russia for doing. Can anyone say hypocrite.
Is there some particular REASON that every few months you falsely claim that I’ve had some kind of fight with Sibel Edmonds? Isn’t there enough stuff you dislike about me that you can talk about that without just making shit up?
You could just go to her web site, no? BYOTH
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It is our problem with defining terrirism that is the real issue. Our “values” are warped to suit purposes— and allow us to redefine violence against civilians, or violence that accompanies secessionism, on the basis of our likes snd dislikes. So, here we go again. Nationbuilding! With whose money? Now just arbitrarily fencing off the ISIS region accross Euphrates — declaring ISIS defested in the area, while stashing them into two refugee camps under US control! While not allowing any humanitarian aid in —- and real refugees are robbed by ISIS of whatever meagre possessions they have. There are some REAL undercover reporters that made it into US controlled area — and have seen what people have to do to be smuggled and escape into government control area.
Kurdish population has suffered from ISIS, but the Kurdish militants US is supporting are just what Erdogan says, terrorists. They have ethnically cleanses Arabs — both Moslem and Christian , Assyrians, Turkmen, Yazidi, just to get the areas cleared for their state! And while fighting USIS, they could hide jntent — but now it is clear. US is just serving more fibs, like the need to create border guards! Whose border? Who are the people US intends to guard border to Turkey and Iraq? And why border in Euphrates — border with whom? Basically, YOG is PKK. Turkish Kurds, PKK are present in Syria, and Syrian YPG offices have Turkish PKK flags and PKK leaders pictures. It is apsolutelly insane for US to create a new state for Kurds, giving them an area that is 2/3 larger then Kurdish majority area. And then use “Arabs”, former ISIS — to create a make believe “Arab” border guards,
Turkey may have to attack Kurds, as US broke every promise, starting from Manbij in 2016, down to lying about disarming Kurds. The danger this arbitrary chopping off of Syrian territory, is just an excuse to stay on after ISIS is defeated. There is no need — Syrian Kurds had good relationship with Damascus, so why would Turkish PKK be allowed to take command over YPG? Afrin Kurds are a soecial kind of problem — that is, by using turmoil in Idlib, they are tryyng to break out and link to Manbij. Secessionism is always based kn terrorism — and is usually based on grievances, which secessionists do not wish to solve. And their mentors simply want to distabilize a country.
Is there anything we can refuse Israel? There is no reason for us now wasting miney and luves, hanging in to a patch of Syria, which is of ZERO value to US. At this point both Syria and Iraq are capable of mopping up pickets of terrorism. But the patrons of terrorism are dtill pumping money and arms. And it is not Iran, or Iraq, or Russia, ir Jordan, or Turkey, or Lebanon… Hmm, who could that be.
More money down the drain, more American lives lost, more endless warfare. Looks like Rrump is somewhere locked up, as Hillary’s plan for Kurds is being implemented. And the man famius for not wanting ever to nation build! Even though Damascus did not want Turkey to stop Kurds, now Damascus must admit that Turkey was right all along, and everyone was just being strang along. Now, it may be mire difficult to solve the problem.
Yes Bianca America bad everyone else good. Is anyone ever surprised by her narrative how it never changes it’s like a bot that’s programmed. People do some research on those Russian military bots on the internet they’ve developed than come back to everything Bianca has ever posted. Spot on.
Yes Cowboy America good everyone else bad. Is anyone ever surprised by his narrative how it never changes it’s like a bot that’s programmed. People do some research on the US propaganda machine that is all consuming over our entire MSM and then come back to everything Cowboy has ever posted. Spot on.
Says the person who posts under the banner wars r us no bias from you I’m sure. People on this forum have seen me post things that usually start out I don’t agree with everything my government does or how I don’t have to agree with everything my government does and as as American am free to express myself in that manner. I’m not trying to explain myself with long programmed narratives like some bots pretending to be human on this forum. Don’t get mad because I present you with facts while you offer conspiracy theories in return. Now go spin another narrative with someone desperate enough to drink your Kool aid.
War r u.s. would seem appropriate. Or is it just my conspiracy theories that saw Obama bomb 7 Muslim countries and watched Trump follow suit? How many deaths must we be responsible for before you will acknowledge that just maybe we are approaching this the wrong way? Instead you continue with your blind loyalty.
How many other nations are using there military to bully the smaller neighbors that border there country or are using there military to claim all the resources in the South China Sea or are using hybrid warfare to create frozen conflicts keeping them from joining the European Union and NATO but, everyone else gets a pass for some reason. I wouldn’t call it blind loyalty I’d call it seeing exactly what’s going on hey, there’s a bear in the woods some people see it,others say they don’t,some people say it doesn’t exist.
You never refute anything I say, only that others are doing the same. Basically we do what other countries do but on a much larger scale. They’re regional and we’re global. So you agree with me. Thank you.
Yes everyone believe Bianca and her real journalist response of people who where supposedly there and saw the suffering America caused but, those bombs Russia and Syrians air Force were dropping didn’t kill any civilians and didn’t help create those refugee camps by sending huge amounts of Syrias population fleeing into to escape those bombs exploding in there cities. Yes Bianca no spin there just Bianca’s biased facts from her sources she claims to have in the warzone I gotta say the Kool aid is strong today.
Turkey should be expelled from NATO, for the duplicitous, deceitful, non-ally they are.
The Turkish MIT has provided material and logistical support to, and encouragement for, Turkish citizens to join and fight with Daesh (ISIS), our enemies.
Supporting the sworn enemy of an ally is not the act of an friend but, rather, the act of an enemy.
NATO Patriot batteries should be immediately withdrawn from Turkey to Europe, and forward deployed to the Baltic States, and Poland, where they might do some good, helping deter further Russian aggression in Eastern Europe.
We should then provide military and political support to the Kurds, throughout the region, including the PKK, who should be reclassified as a non-terrorist organization.
We should assist the Kurdish people in establishing their much deserved, and long overdue, nationhood, to be carved from portions of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
The Kurds will prove an honest, loyal, reliable, and grateful ally, second only to the Israelis in the region.
The Israelis are the tail that runs our Middle East foreign policies for the most part.
Look it’s simple Turkey doesn’t want Assad in power, Turkey doesn’t trust America or NATO and already has shown that by buying Russian defense missile systems, Turkey doesn’t want anything but, Sunni Muslims on it’s border because Erdogan is a Sunni hence, his support for ISIS. Turkey is in my opinion looking out for it’s own interests but, I pray they don’t miscalculate and believe they’re immune to the kind of uprising that could bring down there country from within. Erdogan knows this that’s why he’s cracked down and given himself unlimited powers in his presidency. The ultimate test will be to see if he decides to himself stay in power or allows new elections to be held. Only time will tell.
So from Syria to Afghanistan this United States is sometimes supporting and sometimes creating militant organisations for its own interests.
Turkey only wants to attack Kurds in Afrin because they’re rebels fighting the Syrian regime forces are cutoff and loosing badly in Idlib. They are cut off from resupply by regime and the Kurds in afrin and manbij areas. They desperately want to link up they’re thugs and topple Assad.