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US Allows Ally Turkey to Bomb Only Group Effectively Fighting ISIS
Submitted by Naji Dahl via Anti-Media,
Late in July, the Anti-Media reported that Turkey joined the U.S. led coalition conducting airstrikes against the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL). Since then, it has become clear that Turkey’s strategy is part of a larger agreement with the U.S. to conduct a war against "extremism" in the region.
The deal between the U.S. and Turkey has the following contours: Turkey will allow the U.S. to use its military base at Incirlik to conduct airstrikes against the Islamic State. In exchange, the U.S. will allow Turkey to create a buffer zone on Syrian soil free of Islamic State and Kurdish fighters. The stated aim of the "safe zone" is to create a refuge for internally displaced Syrian civilians inside Syria. According to the New York Times,
"The plan would create what officials from both countries are calling an Islamic State-free zone controlled by relatively moderate Syrian insurgents, which the Turks say could also be a ‘safe zone’ for displaced Syrians."
For Turkey, however, the real aim is to prevent the YPG Kurdish fighters from linking up their three zones of control (Efrin, Kobani, and Cizir pictured below; Tal Abyad is already under YPG control) in northern Syria with each other. These Kurdish fighters also happen to be the sole force that has shown the ability to effectively defeat ISIS in battle. However, the real aim of Turkey was voiced by the leader of the Kurdish opposition party—HDP— in the Turkish parliament, Selahattin Demirtas:
"'Turkey doesn’t intend to target IS with this safe zone. The Turkish government was seriously disturbed by Kurds trying to create an autonomous state in Syria,' he said, adding that ‘the safe zone is intended to stop the Kurds, not IS.'"
It is a poorly-kept secret that the YPG intends to create an independent state in northern Syria, known as Rojava. The YPG has already been accused of ethnically cleansing the non-Kurds from that region as a precursor for a Kurdish state. The YPG—and its civilian arm, the PYD—are linked to the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party), a Kurdish separatist group that Turkey, the U.S., and the E.U. consider a terrorist organization. At 14.5 million, Turkey has the largest population of Kurds in the southeastern part of its territory. The PKK waged a long war with the Turkish state during the 1980s and the 1990s that killed about 30,000 people.
Encouraged by the gains of the YPG in northern Syria, the PKK seems to have re-started its war with Turkey. This new war started when on July 2oth, an IS suicide bomber blew herself up in the southern Turkish border town of Suruc. The attack killed 32 Kurdish youths and left more than 100 wounded. The Kurdish youths were meeting to organize a rebuilding effort of the town of Kobani in Syria. Suruc played a pivotal role in helping YPG rebels take control of Kobani and Tal Abyad from IS.
The PKK blamed the IS attack on the indifference the Turkish state has shown towards IS. The PKK retaliated against the Turkish state by killing two Turkish police officers. These attacks were followed by another that killed three Turkish soldiers, a police officer, and a civilian. On August 2nd, a car bomb killed two Turkish soldiers and injured 31 when it blew up close to a police station in the Southeastern Turkish town of Dogubayazit.
For its part, the Turkish military responded by attacking PKK positions in northern Iraq (the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq has allowed the PKK to have bases there). There are also reports that the Turkish military attacked YPG positions in northern Syria. Not only that, the Turkish state has initiated a crack-down on PKK and other militants, arresting 590 people on terror charges inside Turkey. Even more sinister is president Erdogan’s call to strip the immunity of parliamentarians with alleged ties to the PKK.
According to sociologist Max Weber, a state is an entity that has a boundary, has sovereignty (controls what happens within its boundary), has the ability to legitimately use force, and the ability to tax and borrow. Whenever any of these functions are threatened, a state responds with violence towards the source of the threat.
The PKK poses a serious threat to Turkey’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. It is hard to fathom a situation where Turkey will ever allow an independent Kurdish state, whether in northern Iraq, in Syria, or in Turkey. For the Turkish state, the Kurdish threat is far more serious than the threat from ISIS. If the Kurds are successful in their bid for their own state, they will detach about a third of Turkey’s territory (to understand the seriousness of the Kurdish challenge to the Turkish state, just imagine what the American government would do if a separatist Mexican movement sought to detach the southwest from the United States and create an independent state). The seriousness is underscored by the declarations of the president of Turkey regarding a Kurdish state. In contrast, the Islamic State has no such aims on Turkey and does not have the wherewithal to undertake such an enterprise—even if it wanted to. Turks have a long history of secularism and are not receptive to the strict Islamism of ISIS. For the time being, therefore, the Turkish state will pretend to be fighting ISIS while directing its violence towards the PKK and the YPG.
If the violence between the PKK and YPG and the Turkish state spirals out of control, it is highly likely that a military coup d’etat will take place against the AKP (the Islamic-based Justice and Development party of Erdogan). The military will jail leading government politicians, end democratic rule, wage war against the PKK/YPG, restore order, and then return power to civilian hands. This has happened three times in modern Turkish history—in 1960, 1971, and 1980. If conditions continue to deteriorate inside and outside Turkey, a coup is likely to happen again.
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At least we can say that US policy is consistent.
It is consistent. The goal is violent chaos, and kakistocracy in the region. The reason for that goal is that Russia, China and the EU will be deeply threatened by such chaos in their neighborhood; and that the region's vital energy resources, on which China and the EU are totally reliant, will be controllable only by a nation that can project military power anywhere in the world at any time. There's only one such nation today. Far from irrational and erratic, US foreign policy has been remarkably consistent. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Paul Wolfowitz, and to a lesser extent, Henry Kissinger, are still firmly in charge, as some combination of them has been for over 50 years.
Looks like the Kurds need to start a nuclear program.
That has a remarkable deterrent effect, doesn't it.
Yes, the immediate goal is chaos, but the major long-term goal is not to threaten Russia, China or the EU, but simply to create justifications for MIC spending. Nobody will admit to that, but it is the institutional imperative that drives all else before it.
That may very well be. I don't know what I'd rather think; a grand diabolical scheme drawn from Zbigniew Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard," or just looting taken to its logical extreme.
Safe zone? B.S.
What the U.S. is trying to do is keep its own terrorist supply routes from Turkey to Aleppo open. If it can't suppy AND PAY the U.S.-backed Jabat al Nusra headchoppers, then JAN won't listen to the U.S. anymore. The U.S. will lose Aleppo and the rest of N.W. Syria that it's trying to steal.
al Nusra are basically the U.S. mercenaries paid to slaughter everyone in Northwestern Syria as 'punishment' for not joining the so-called U.S.-backed rebels. That includes anyone who won't join - Alawites, Kurds AND Christians. The U.S. is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths simply because those Syrians wouldn't join and support the rebel army. They U.S. will kill every last Syrian if necessary to hold on to the 'secret' rebel base in Aleppo which supplies BOTH the rebels and al Nusra.
You'll also notice that the Qatari pipeline will have to cross the Turkish border somewhere North of Aleppo (Kilis, to be exact) - what a fucking coincidence! Why doesn't the U.S. just call it the Qatari-Turkish Pipeline Safe Zone?
Incirlik isn't about an ISIS-free zone on the Turkish border, it's about the U.S. supporting terrorist operations in N.W. Syria and preventing the Syrian AF from kicking their ass in Aleppo. They are now, that's why the U.S. is suddenly pissing its pants over N.W. Syria. When the U.S. busts up Syria, they need Aleppo and the pipeline 'Safe Zone' to be in their hands, and not the Rojava Kurd hands where it belongs.
Oh yeah... when the Israelis either take over Lebanon or the Syrian gas pipelines runing north to Turkey, they will have to make sure Aleppo is in 'friendly' hands - it's integral to their scheme to pipe Leviathan gas through the stolen Syrian pipeline up to Kilis, Turkey. This is the Israeli pipeline they plan to steal or control, and their little bitches in the U.S. Congress better damn well have a safe zone set up first. The only part missing from that map is the Haifa to Amman piece of the Leviathan pipeline - Dick Cheney's outfit is busy building that piece 'in secret' across the stolen Golan land right now.
So let's get that Qatari-Turkey / Israeli stolen pipeline route secured now, you traitorous, corrupt, bribe-whore dual-citizen fucks in Congress. Do the job the oligarchs pay you to do, you worthless bitches. Plenty of Americans, Syrians and Iraqis died so you fucks could build your pipelines over their bodies. Stop killing people and just annex the land outright and build your fucking pipelines. It's not like it's some secret anymore. Either that, or just nuke Damascus and take over all of Syria. Do you really have to turn it into another Libya, you psychopathic fucks?
U.S. - "We learned everything we know about stealing foriegn land from the pros: Israel"
pretty much spot on.
Also pretty much Isaiah 17th ish.
The Nobel Prize Winner wants to dominate the bombing?
Over 450 civilians killed by US-led air strikes in Iraq and Syria
By Will Morrow5 August 2015
A report released Monday by a group of journalists reveals that at least 459 civilians, and likely far more, were killed in airstrikes between August 2014 and July 2015 as part of the US-led war in Iraq and Syria.
The report, published by airwars.org, came as the Obama administration yesterday announced a major escalation of US airstrikes in Syria. Obama provided a blanket authorisation for US forces to bomb any target—including Syrian government forces—which supposedly come into conflict with a small brigade of US mercenaries in the country. The decision marks a major escalation in the US-led war for regime-change against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and ensures that the civilian death toll from the imperialist intervention in the region will dramatically accelerate (see: “Obama authorises escalation of US war against Syria”).
In the period covered by the report, the US and its allies carried out almost 5,000 airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, releasing around 17,000 bombs and missiles and destroying 2,000 buildings.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/08/05/syri-a05.html
Let me guess churches and Christian villages were targeted.
From the humanity perspective, I am ashamed to pay tax to us gov.
Will Russia start supplying Verba MANPADs to be used against Turkish planes?
http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-built-one-of-the-most-alarming-ant...
Business Insider is a real shitty soros like publication.
Verba at 2:57 in Donetsk
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=228_1402147264&comments=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V22Cwgc1_co
Did Putin really tell Erdogan that he would turn Syria into Turkey's Stalingrad?
"...Did Putin really tell Erdogan that he would turn Syria into Turkey's Stalingrad?..."
ADW News:
Russian president to Turkish ambassador: "tell your dictator President he can go to hell along with his ISIS terrorists, I will make Syria a 'Big Stalingrad' for him!"
I have not found a link to anything directly from the Moscow Times, but there have been no denials from either them or the Russian government so far. This story was also reported in FarsNews (Iran) and VeteransToday - not quite unbiased sources. You will never see this in Western MSM, of course, so I wouldn't expect to find any links for CNN, WSJ or the NYT if this did occur.So a closed door, highly sensitive diplomatic meeting is publicised in various newspapers? Can't call bullshit obviously, but I'd take that verbatim with a massive grain of salt.
There is more wars now than 20 yrs ago...or it is that now I follow the news more than then?
Turkey is all mouth.
Do it already.
Business as usual.
Create havoc at all cost. Blame Iran. Boycott Russia and bully China.
Turkey bombs Kurds by pretending to fight IS*. Make up your own pseudonym. U.S. pretends to support x. by fighting y.
Somebody is getting rich. That is the only thing that makes sense.
U.S. = Criminal Enterprise
That's about the size of it.
It was my previous understanding that the PKK did not commence attacks within Turkey until after Erdogan abrogated Turkey's truce with the PKK and started bombing Kurdish positions within Syria. This article makes it sound like the PKK resumed attacks within Turkey because it was encouraged by Kurdish gains within Syria. I believe the Kurdish dominated HDP, with substantial support from non-Kurds, was making electoral gains, and Erdogan wants to derail that either by ginning up nationalistic war fever or by an outright ban of HDP, which would be facilitated by PKK attacks within Turkey.
Not a hint of evidence within this article that the 5 Turkish soldiers were actually killed by the PKK. Why would PKK derail Kurdish electoral gains via HDP? Qui bono?
Trust Obama the prize winner to peace all over everything especially our allies.
The only peace he really wants is peace on the golf course. Now THAT'S important!
Hey, don't worry. Obama has his top people on it. As long as you realize that the real goal is to maximize income to the industrial military complex, IT ALL MAKES SENSE.
Check out Tarpley.net on this. Webster Tarpley is hands down the most informed and educated commentator on international affairs. He says that ISIS represents Erdogan's boys and he, Erdogan, is the real calif of the coming Sunnistan, not that al Baghdadi character. According to Tarpley, Erdogan's daughter runs a hospital for ISIS fighters and his son, who Tarpley claims profits from the oil that ISIS sells in Turkey, runs supplies and arms through this corridor mentioned in the article. If there is a good candidate for Antichrist, Erdogan may be it, though this is not something that concerns Tarpley, needless to say. But it fits the scenario that the Antichrist will come from Turkey, and particularly, Istanbul.
Tarpley shows how Erdogan resembles Hitler more than anything else in his attempt to get himself voted dictator for life, which failed precisely because of those upstart Kurds in Turkey who caused his party, the AKP, to lose its majority in parliament.
Tarpley claims Erdogan did a bait and switch, promising to start attacking ISIS, and indeed, he has targeted a few of their positions, presumably as cover for his turning the brunt of his firepower against the Kurds. The Kurds had just about succeeded in cutting of the supply route through this corridor, which would effectively have killed off ISIS, had they succeeded.
Tarpley also claims that General Allen, who is part of the Petraeus clique, did an end run around Obama while he was in Africa, in staging his no-fly zone in the corridor, thus preventing even Assad from overflying his own country. Tarpley shows how eventually, they intend to deflect the ISIS mercenaries to the Caucasus region to stir up trouble for Putin.
Tarpley also accepts the story in recent days that Putin had a falling out with Erdogan and even threatened to make Syria a new Stalingrad.
At the very least, Tarpley provides a counterpoint to the MSN pablum doled out to our chemtrail/GMO vitiated neurons.
Check out his site, www.Tarpley.net. We have the misfortune to live in interesting times and we need a Virgil to guide us.
"Tarpley claims profits from the oil that ISIS sells in Turkey, runs supplies and arms through this corridor mentioned in the article."
This looks to be the case. There has also been a short documentary on RT.com about the supply lines from Turkey to ISIS with scores of daily trucks carrying everything from war supplies to arms into Syria through the corridor. Some truck drivers interviewed say that the goods are ostensibly for Kurds etc but once they arrive, they are offloaded and collected by ISIS people.
Turkey does nothing to stop it because Erdogan is up to his neck in it.
Turkey is an ISIS supporter.
The US is now supporitng ISIS in Syria.
These are indisputable facts for anyone paying attention.
"The US allows Turkey" I guess Turkey is a vassal state after all?
To get Order from Chaos
You first need to sow chaos
Job#1 for the globalist controlled US, at it 24/7
Same reason for the Iran deal, color revolution didn't work, toss up the playing board, and let's see what kind of chaos the Iranians can sow once nuclear
The Kurds are nutcase fundamentalist Muslims, they are the IS visit youtube type in Kurd kurdistan, it's all burkas.
burka=IS
Duh