SeaGypsy wrote:& the solution/ send in more arms. Currently the same airport is being used to drop aid to the same PKK as to drop bombs on them.
SeaGypsy wrote:http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29684761
This has been going on openly since last year.
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Syrian regime change is also the goal of the ground troops who will be filling the void left by ISIS, who the New York Times labeled “relatively moderate Syrian insurgents,” a telling euphemism.
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These groups share the ideology and tactics of ISIS, the only difference being their willingness to work with the United States and Turkey. It’s entirely likely that once the “safe zone” operation starts, many ISIS troops will simply change shirts and join Jabhat al-Nusra, since there is no principled difference.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/31/ ... -war-zone/
Interesting thought. Any other "allies" that should be dumped?Cog wrote:The Kurds are the only folks in that region that are worth anything. Figures we aren't really doing much to help them. The Turks should have been thrown out of NATO right after the Berlin Wall fell.
I didn't say it was real, I was thinking about other "allies" such as Saudi.SeaGypsy wrote:Keith, if Turkey's partnership is real, why is it far & away the biggest source of both direct & indirect volunteers for IS?
On Sunday morning, Kurdish separatist guerrillas launched a suicide-bombing strike on Turkish forces in Angri province, using a tractor laden with explosives.
On Saturday, the president of the Kurdistan Regional government of northern Iraq, Massoud Barzani, condemned the Turkish airstrikes on Iraq and asked the PKK guerrillas to withdraw from the territories he rules. The KRG complained that the airstrikes had killed Kurdish civilians.
Barzani is likely worried that the PKK will become an even bigger factor in the politics of Iraqi Kurdistan now that it is being targeted. He wants both to placate the angry Turks and to constrain the radical Kurds.
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The Kurdish-speaking areas of Turkey are in turmoil after the guerrilla group, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) over the past year disregarded its peace process and launched attacks on Turkish military and security personnel. In the past two weeks, the Turkish government has also explicitly given up a “peace process” with the PKK Kurds and launched dozens of air strikes on PKK bases and safe houses.
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In the midst of the chaos, some 5000 old Kurdish guerrillas from Turkey relocated into remote areas of the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Kurdish super-province. The paramilitary of this Iraqi super-province, the Peshmerga, were the closest US allies during the occupation. But they declined to move against the guerrillas from Turkey, having some ethnic affinity with them (though they are ideologically quite different. The Peshmerga serve a government in which the center-right Kurdistan Democratic Party takes the lead. The Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK is far left and had been communist in earlier decades).
The US military never moved against the PKK either.
http://www.juancole.com/2015/08/another ... rzani.html
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