Behind Turkey's Military Incursion into Syria

(Ha'aretz) Zvi Bar'el - In the three autonomous Kurdish districts of northern Syria, men and women are being called on to enlist, while teenage boys have received weapons and basic training. The heads of the Arab tribes living in these areas say they will stand "shoulder to shoulder with the Kurds against the Turkish enemy." The Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, established in 2014, wrote a constitution that granted equal rights to every ethnic and religious group, and also to women. It seeks to establish a secular, liberal, democratic federation that will in the future be part of Syria. Turkey claims it is acting to prevent the establishment of an independent Kurdish state along the Syrian-Turkish border. But according to the strategy and ideology that unites most Syrian Kurds, they have no intention of establishing an independent Kurdish state that might threaten Turkey. They seem to have successfully persuaded the U.S. of this, as well as Russia and Syria.


2018-01-31 00:00:00

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