Prompted by the next post I have merged eleven threads, all SWJ Blog posts, to this thread. The title was Turkey, the PKK, Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan (merged thread) and has been amended to show a wider subject.
Prompted by the next post I have merged eleven threads, all SWJ Blog posts, to this thread. The title was Turkey, the PKK, Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan (merged thread) and has been amended to show a wider subject.
Last edited by davidbfpo; 01-13-2018 at 02:39 PM.
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I don't think there have been posts on the Iranian Kurds, so this lengthy article helps to explain the history and the often ambivalent tance of the Iranian regime. Sub-titled:It ends with:A history of support for Kurdish extremists comes back to haunt TehranLink:https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/ori...#disqus_threadBelow the surface, though, a lingering fear persists: Is Tehran finally serious about confronting its jihadi menace? Or is this crackdown, like so many before it, only temporary?
Last edited by davidbfpo; 01-13-2018 at 02:38 PM. Reason: 2,117v
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Turkey says it’s talking to the Americans. The U.S. says it’s talking to the Turks. Politicians and generals in the two countries are in almost constant communication, judging by their public comments.
There’s no indication that any of this talk has resolved the fundamental argument that’s threatening to bring NATO’s two biggest armies into direct conflict in northern Syria.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-turkey-risingWhen Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched an offensive there last month against U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters, he started in an area where American troops aren’t embedded with their allies.
But he said the operation will soon extend further east, to the town of Manbij, where they are. “We’ll press against terrorists without taking into consideration who’s next to them,” Erdogan said Jan. 30. Several ministers have made the same point.
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
http://i.imgur.com/IPT1uLH.jpg
Bonus video: A female Kurdish fighter of the YPJ uses a Russian-made ATGM to destroy a Turkish Leopard 2 tank in the battle for Afrin.
https://www.funker530.com/girl-destr...-leopard-tank/
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
http://i.imgur.com/IPT1uLH.jpg
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