Off and on fighting just west of the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobane has escalated into a heavy exchange of artillery fire between the Kurdish YPG and the Turkish military.
Mortar attacks by the Kurds killed a Turkish soldier and wounded four others. Meanwhile, the Turkish shelling killed a 14-year-old child, and wounded five other civilians in the border region.
Turkish officials claimed responses to the Kurds across the border areas killed at least five YPG fighters. They did not indicate the context of those killings, or exactly where on the long border they occurred.
Indications are that these five killed were distinct from the 11 unspecified fighters killedΒ in airstrikes in the Kobane border area.
The Turks remind me that a tiger doesn’t change its stripes…
Where are the peacemakers when you need them? This conflict goes all the way back to the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. Some people think that Britain ππππππ these nations to be at war so that the Empire could not rise again.
I think the fundamental problem is that the people who profit from war have a louder voice than those who recognize that peace is usually a win/win alternative.
Nicely stated…
Well put. Except today we are dealing with American Empire chaos maming. Kurds are nust used, endlesdly. For as lingvas someone is willing to pay for tbem to fight against a.country or countries -/ they are there. Why is West arming Turkish PKK Kurds? And suddenly we have YPG here _ I thought US absorbd them alm into SDF. How covenient β.now that troublemakung is needed _ YPG is redmsurected again! And around Kobane? Why did US klenly support Turksh PKK in Iraq in fighting ISIS, not the traditiknal Iraqi Peshmerga? Too manyy questions no answers.
The sad truth is β only Turkey can deal with Kurdish miljtancy as it cannot allow their cross border infiltration, Damascus cannot do anything to fight militants wihout endangering its good relations with Kurdish population. Rusdia also cannot get into inter ethnic issues in Syria. These foreign paid mercenaries take advantage if Damascus being paralized. And nos that US is pissed with Thrkey acter merting in Teberan and meeting with Putin – unleashing lityle mayhanm
by old PKK branch, YPG. Is what empire needs.
I have no ixea why is kt thst we azsume that Turkey is fighting. Kurdish population for some territorial gain when in fact we ard having mercenaries β convenient tool to keep Syrian oeace emusuve,
Am I the only one sick with militants for hire operating out oif US contrled areas iin Syria.
No problem we can edmessly priunt money for their salaries. room and board, vehicles gas, weapons and ammunition. How many years already?