Turkey crackdown on Kurds
The latest escalation of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict started after peace talks between Ankara and the PKK failed in 2015. Turkey accuses the Kurds of terrorism, while they have been the main fighting force battling jihadists in Iraq and Syria on the ground in the US-led coalition’s campaign against Islamic State.
- Greater Kurdistan? Just kidding! Esper tells Syrian Kurds US never promised them a state
The US never promised Syria’s Kurds that it would help them build an autonomous state, Defense Secretary Mark Esper has insisted, despite years of hints to the contrary. So much for the birth pangs of that New Middle East…Dec 13, 2019 22:58World News - NATO left Turkey ‘alone in fight against terror’ – defense ministerTurkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar accused NATO of abandoning the country to fight terrorism by itself, after the alliance declined to label Kurdish fighters in northern Syria terrorists.Dec 6, 2019 17:12World News
- Pence tells Iraqi Kurdish leader Trump has their backs – weeks after hasty US retreat in SyriaIraqi Kurds should rest assured that Washington is firmly backing them – just take it from VP Mike Pence, who made a surprise visit to Iraq weeks after his boss was dragged through the mud at home for abandoning Syrian Kurds.Nov 23, 2019 17:28World News
- Another Syria ‘fairy tale’: Lee Camp marvels as media re-brands US-backed ‘moderate rebels’ as Turkey-aligned militantsUS-backed “moderate rebels” have been re-branded as barbarians now that they are leading Turkey’s assault on Kurdish militias in Syria. The narrative change exposes the media’s own fairy tales about Syria, Lee Camp said.Oct 27, 2019 07:21World News
- How Russia’s military operation in Syria laid groundwork for Erdogan-Putin agreementPreparations for the events in northeastern Syria began around a year ago. Now, after the US dumped the Kurds, they have no choice but to abide by the Russian-Turkish memorandum.Oct 26, 2019 14:49
- ‘I saved you!’ Trump tells the same Kurds he left at Turkish forces’ mercy a fortnight agoThe withdrawal of American forces from north-eastern Syria left then-allies, the Kurds alone to face Turkey, who soon overran them at significant humanitarian cost – but to hypocritical Donald Trump, that was actually saving them.Oct 23, 2019 21:27
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