Ongoing Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and elsewhere have spawned a lot of allegations of who is really behind them. Democrats have tried to pin it on Russia, Republicans have looked suspiciously at China. President Trump has tried to blame the whole matter on Antifa.
Now, it is Turkey’s turn, with President Erdogan calling Trump and telling him that he is “concerned” about Turkey’s belief that the whole Black Lives Matter thing is being orchestrated by the Kurds, and by Turkey’s banned PKK in particular.
Absent in all of this is any evidence that the PKK actually is involved, or even any conceivable reason to think that the Kurdish separatist group would care about US policing powers.
Erdogan’s position is hardly shocking, however, as he has been trying to drive a wedge between the US and the Kurds for years, and pins something on the PKK every time there is any news remotely related to terror. President Trump’s presentation of the groups as domestic terrorism was really all the pretext Erdogan needed to make such an allegation.
Erodgan is so right to be wary of those devious Russian Kurds!
Flag: This is sarcasm….
In a more serious note — who is funding PKK in Turkey. And we know US has favored PKK in Iraq over Peshmerga Kurds. In fact former Peshmerga leader. Barzani, met with Erdogan on that issue more then once. US favored Iraqi PKK in the very first anti-ISIS action retaking Sinjar, It was done with help of Kurds. What happened next? US allowed only Iraqi PKK to occupy town, not Peshmerga. Next was liberating Kirkuk from ISIS — same. Peshmerga got the message. US is trying to convince Kurds, specially young — that US will back them up. US does not like Peshmerga as they do deals with Baghdad, and with Turkey — avoiding pitfalls of depending in foreign power to make their fortune.
Peshmerga pulled the best move I saw in a while when announcing independence referendum. Two objectives — first, show young and restless that US was NOT going to support them and second — to turn control over borders and airports to Iraq— thus getting away from US pressure that they remain in limbo but not turn over borders to Iraq. After referendum — Iraq forces went in, and Peshmerga did not move aa finger to help PKK in Kirkuk and Sinjar. Iraq ousted PKK from two towns, Peshmerga gave airports and borders to Iraq with no fighting. Turkey until today has military base in Iraq.
Wtf, are you drunk?
Afraid not. Do you read foreign press?
Life is not simple — and people who think they know everything, thus others are just stupid, believe in the end of history.
I am not one of them.
I am wondering about the accuracy of report. It is not Black Lives Matter working with Kurds but Antifa. In Turkey, Antifa has worked with Kurds in undermining Erdogan’s party.
Antifa has offices in Turkey , Greece and Italy. Their activities well known. In Italy they went after Salvini with passion. Accused of kidnapping for not letting a migrant ship land.
Antifa is very active in Europe everywhere where dreaded nationalism is endangering the liberal globalist world order. Makes me laugh — demanding disbanding police. Of course let us privatize what is left of public interest and money left to defend public interest. With privatized Congress, Pentagon, Intelligence,Space, etc. any point in voting?
Kurds are fighting ISIL and Trumps Favorite jihadi Erdogan. They have no time to paint penises on churchwalls in america.
There are Kurds in four countries — Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. They all did not fight ISIS. Turkish Kurds did roaring trade in ISIS oil until Russia bombed the trucks on the highway. And YPG provided smuggling serviced from Turkey Kurds across Afrin to iIslamists in Idlib.
It is not all that simple. Not at all.
Turkish Kurds did roaring trade with Isis?! This is laughable as the route that was bombed was through Idlib(controlled by Isis at the time). Please back your claims with proof! Blaming this on the oppressed “Turkish” Kurds. Should be ashamed when you know full well it was turkey who was working with Isis.
Yes, so it makes great sense (not!) that so much of the previous Arab part of the Caliphate is now just a vassal of the west….T.E. Lawrence made idiots out of the Arabs and the fruit of that is Israel.
I am no fan of Erdogan’s, but he is no jihadi but a proud Turk. Anyway, what is a jihadi? The clever west has distorted or accepted the distortion of the word jihad by nuts like ISIL to further slur Muslims/Islam–one of its favorite sports.
“Antifa has offices in Turkey , Greece and Italy”
Interesting claim. Got photos of these alleged “offices?”