Syrian Kurdish fighters have been fighting against the Islamic State for years, and have managed to create “a semi-autonomous region in Northern Syria.” After Kurdish fighters “consolidated control over territory captured from the Islamic State in northern Syria, Turkey and Turkish-backed Syrian militias, including the Free Syrian Army (FSA), moved to recapture cities and expel the Kurds.” NBC published a report, “Turkey’s attack on Kurds in Syria betrays those doing the fighting against ISIS — and dying.” But such is the character of Islamic supremacist Turkey in its ruthless pursuit of regional and global influence; its agenda includes a harsh crackdown on the Kurds. Turkey continues to escalate and threaten Kurdish-held areas inside Syria.
Recall that in 2019, Trump threatened to sanction Turkey if its military attacked U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syria. Now comes news of a renewed Turkish offensive. Erdogan stated:
God willing, we will root out all of them as soon as possible, together with our tanks, our soldiers.
While the Kurdish militia has fought hard to regain territory from the Islamic State, it now faces a full scale ground assault by Turkey. Turkey has already hit “471 targets in Syria and Iraq since the weekend”, followed since then by aircraft, drone and heavy artillery attacks on “civilian infrastructure including hospitals and a school among the targets hit.” Yet the world does nothing to stop Turkey, which has also been provoking war with Greece. That’s likely in part because Turkey is accelerating its influence in Europe via a deal to play middleman in supplying Russian oil to the globalist, green EU. The latter was too incompetent to scale back its dependence on Russian oil in past, as it pursued a green agenda.
While the world zeroes in on the Russian threat in Ukraine, it ignores the Turkish war against the Kurds, and Turkey’s imminent threat of expansion. Turkey’s vision of Islamic world dominance isn’t a discussion in Western media, since any discourse about Islam has been shut down via the “Islamophobia” battering ram. Meanwhile, Turkey sees nothing in the Taliban that contradicts its own beliefs.
The implications of Turkish aggression are far-reaching, and could have immense impact upon Western interests. Back in March, Biden said “he’d fight World War III for NATO, but not for Ukraine,” except that the Ukraine war is not extraneous to NATO, it’s intertwined. The Russian war with Ukraine has plummeted the EU into an energy crisis; NATO member Turkey holds a trump card and is using it.
With a mentally defunct US President, every foe of Western civilization has been unleashed, aided by Western globalist traitors in leadership positions, who have labored to destroy their countries from within.
“Turkey’s Erdogan: New ground offensive in Syria ‘when convenient,’” Al Jazeera, November 23, 2022:
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that his country’s air operations against the YPG militia in northern Syria were only the beginning and that it would launch a land operation there when convenient.
Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey was more determined than ever to secure its southern border with a “security corridor” while ensuring the territorial integrity of both Syria and Iraq, where it has been conducting operations against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), and groups it considers to be affiliated, such as the YPG, or People’s Protection Units.
“We are continuing the air operation and will come down hard on the terrorists from land at the most convenient time for us,” Erdogan said in a speech to his AK Party politicians in parliament.
“We have formed part of this corridor (and) will take care of it starting with places such as Tal Rifaat, Manbij and Ayn al-Arab (Kobane), which are the sources of trouble,” he added.
Erdogan had said on Tuesday that Turkey’s military operations in Syria would not be limited only to an air operation.
Turkey has previously mounted major military operations in Syria against the largely Kurdish YPG militia. The YPG shares close ideological links to the PKK, and Turkey has long labelled it the Syrian wing of the organisation.
While the PKK is a designated “terrorist” group in Turkey, the United States and the European Union and many other Western countries back the YPG-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against ISIL (ISIS).
Ankara launched the air operations at the weekend, saying they were retaliation for an Istanbul bomb attack a week earlier that killed six people, and which authorities blamed on the PKK and the YPG. Nobody has claimed responsibility and the PKK and YPG have denied involvement….
Western countries, as well as Russia and Iran, have put pressure on Turkey to not attack.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If all these countries – Western Europe, Russia, are serious about warning Erdogan, they should threaten to formally recognize the PKK as the legitimate representative of the Turkish Kurds, and threaten to do to Turkey what they did to Serbia in the 90s by prying out Kosovo – in this case, Turkey would lose all of Turkish Kurdistan, and then Syrian, Iraqi and Iranian Kurdistans would be free to join it
Syria also should be mindful that it shouldn’t lose its territory to Turkey in the guise of Turkish operations against the Kurds
ElderlyZionist says
None of the Kurdistans has a seacoast. This geographic fact makes it difficult for foreign countries to support Kurdish independence.
Kossovo is similarly landlocked, but borders Albania and North Macedonia, both of which are NATO members. This allows the US and our NATO allies to access and intervene in Kossovo.
None of the countries that contain the several Kurdistans wants Kurdish independence, or will support US intervention in Kurdistan. How do you propose the US should move heavy freight, such as bulk artillery shells and fuel, to Kurdistan, so that we can fight a war with Turkiye there?
ben sherfort says
the new ottomaniac empire chalifate is busy performing its modern genocides and islamic type massacres of civilians who refuse to bow to allah….
the genocide in syria and iraq of the christians there that refused to convert and so called islamic state were funded, backed, supported, armed, treated and guided with info from the turkish intelligence in total, suposed to be a secret that isis and al qainda are now for years the children of turkish sultan erdogan the charlatan…
all the terrorist activities in europe and africa are run funded and guided and armed by the turks, who have taken over on behalf of the saudis where the endless turkish money is coming from….
the genocide of non muslims in africa that refuse to convert to islam, therefore christians, is the start only… as the muslims of the holy migration of islam intent to organise and settle well in order to perform another such genocide in europe in the future, completely exterminating the native europeans and taking over europe making it another islamic sewer….
ben sherfort says
isis and al qaida are the children of turkey from the start!!!!! at least from the start of the war in syria….
neo marxist obama funded and armed them to perform the modern genocide in syria and iraq to exterminate the 2 000 000 christians there….
trump opposed this madness and funded the kurds to fight against the terrorists of turkey…
neo marxists back on guess what it goes back to in the jihad that aims to exterminate whole populations that do not convert to islam….
ozun says
Agreed. Even though Kurds are mainly Muslims (but mostly moderate) the jihadist Turkish state still persecutes them and gives them no rights both inside and out of the country. Just an evil, sick and racist state which does not tolerate anything un-islamic inside and out of it’s borders.