1514-1918 : 402 years of Ottoman rule protecting the indigenous peoples. Now open to population engineering and ethnic cleansing by "Iraqi" government and the PKK, under our protective umbrella..
"You" had not gained anything by selective righteousness to lose. Parting shot of 60's half-ass revolutionaries ensconced in the Nobel Prize Committee, most with cushy academic jobs and IRAs, 401(K)s or whatever they are called in Nordic Gloom.
Point-by-point:
1.Ooops. The PYD or Democratic Union Party is the leftwing party of most Kurds in Syria’s northeast. Kurds speak an Indo-European language related to Persian and ultimately to English.
PYG is an instrument of PKK, which is Kurdish "Workers"(read a remnant Stalinist 1970s) Party, a Terrorist organization. The Kurds who live in Turkey who voted for Erdogan( >65%), are taking a punisment from PKK or its Syrian apparitions for it right now. Most of them live in Western Turkey. The surrendering "YPG" members were born in Turkey, did not speak the "Indo-European(read aryan)" language. As a matter of fact, most of the intercepted field communications of PKK/YPG/PYD/SDF are in Turkish.
2.The Democratic Union Party’s YPG militia has been the only really effective and consistent fighting force willing to take on Daesh, and the US has embedded some 300 special operations forces personnel with them.
The exceptional fighting force was that of US Air Force. The YPG/PKK/PYG/SDF had >2000 fighter/bomber sorties supporting them against ISIS, while the FSA got 5 (yes, five) supportive sorties from the rest of "coalition". The "tough fighters" had an air force that was mightier than the one made Saddam kneel.
3.Of course, nobody is an angel and the Kurdish forces have also been over-reaching.
Agreed, but please add to that the forced migrations of Turkmen, Assyrians, Arabs and Yezidi, as well as Kurds who do not like their Stalinist government into Turkey, sacking and burning of Government records pertaining to population, land deeds, family records in the towns that they have "liberated" and recent statements from Syrian officials that they are holding a sizable cache of stolen chemical weapons.
How about National Interest?
If the kurds are serious about fighting ISIS and not just about ethnic cleansing and population engineering on Turkish border, this is high time. ISIS is being swept their way, cut off supply routes and internet access. But, the pampered "freedom fighters with light makeup in trenches" are not going to fight ISIS, they will regroup and try to fight Turkish Forces. The success of the latter remains to be seen, especially IF the US keeps its promise to not continue to be the PKK air force west of Euphrates.
It is Erdoğan.
1514-1918 : 402 years of Ottoman rule protecting the indigenous peoples. Now open to population engineering and ethnic cleansing by "Iraqi" government and the PKK, under our protective umbrella..
"You" had not gained anything by selective righteousness to lose. Parting shot of 60's half-ass revolutionaries ensconced in the Nobel Prize Committee, most with cushy academic jobs and IRAs, 401(K)s or whatever they are called in Nordic Gloom.
Point-by-point:
1.Ooops. The PYD or Democratic Union Party is the leftwing party of most Kurds in Syria’s northeast. Kurds speak an Indo-European language related to Persian and ultimately to English.
PYG is an instrument of PKK, which is Kurdish "Workers"(read a remnant Stalinist 1970s) Party, a Terrorist organization. The Kurds who live in Turkey who voted for Erdogan( >65%), are taking a punisment from PKK or its Syrian apparitions for it right now. Most of them live in Western Turkey. The surrendering "YPG" members were born in Turkey, did not speak the "Indo-European(read aryan)" language. As a matter of fact, most of the intercepted field communications of PKK/YPG/PYD/SDF are in Turkish.
2.The Democratic Union Party’s YPG militia has been the only really effective and consistent fighting force willing to take on Daesh, and the US has embedded some 300 special operations forces personnel with them.
The exceptional fighting force was that of US Air Force. The YPG/PKK/PYG/SDF had >2000 fighter/bomber sorties supporting them against ISIS, while the FSA got 5 (yes, five) supportive sorties from the rest of "coalition". The "tough fighters" had an air force that was mightier than the one made Saddam kneel.
3.Of course, nobody is an angel and the Kurdish forces have also been over-reaching.
Agreed, but please add to that the forced migrations of Turkmen, Assyrians, Arabs and Yezidi, as well as Kurds who do not like their Stalinist government into Turkey, sacking and burning of Government records pertaining to population, land deeds, family records in the towns that they have "liberated" and recent statements from Syrian officials that they are holding a sizable cache of stolen chemical weapons.
High time to call them what they are.
How about National Interest?
If the kurds are serious about fighting ISIS and not just about ethnic cleansing and population engineering on Turkish border, this is high time. ISIS is being swept their way, cut off supply routes and internet access. But, the pampered "freedom fighters with light makeup in trenches" are not going to fight ISIS, they will regroup and try to fight Turkish Forces. The success of the latter remains to be seen, especially IF the US keeps its promise to not continue to be the PKK air force west of Euphrates.