Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: The Syrian people carried out an authentic revolution and crowned it with success, and we will not allow the division of Syrian lands.
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I hope the same people screaming to defend the Palestinians will scream as loud to defend the Kurd. But I guess Turkey is Muslim so they can do whatever they want?
He's a neighbour, he has the biggest tank army in NATO, millions of displaced Syrians in his country and he sees himself as the benevolent sultan.
He also wants to kill kurds
He seems to be ignoring that HTS has only control of the west of the country. Let the Kurds have their state in the East, unless Erdogan wants to be forever at war with them
Care to explain? There's been zero western news coverage of that region since Isis was more or less toppled. Seemed the SDF were the only willing body to defend that area but I'm not an expert
They are defending, but reliant on international support, which is strained, and was largely continued as a hedge against ISIS. Syrian internal conditions do not favor them with consolidation of tribes outside their coalition. And the international coalition is an unkowable shitshow.
The bottom line is that currently Erdogan is the power player and he is anti Kurd (SDF Leadership). The rest you are going to have to educate yourself on as it is a long discussion. The disinfo space is huge though, so no easy task.
Thanks. The view from afar though it seems that if he ever wants a cessation of hostility from Kurds (Pkk, Ypg) they'll surely need to be recognised with some kind of regional autonomy.
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"This isn't escalation." - Jake Sullivan, perhaps
https://www.eurasiantimes.com/u-turn-on-f-35-fighters-u-s-may-sell-stealth/
It's not manageable in the long term. There would be constant civil unrest.
"I will attack Kurds with the same blood-thristyness as Assad"
He also wants to kill kurds
He could have rolled into Syria and imposed de facto Turkish rule ages ago if he wanted the trouble
If Syria (a post Ottoman construction) decides to split, it's their business, nobody else's.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria
Imperialism like that worked well for Russia, not so?
I'm just saying.