Turkey faced criticism from much of the Western world for launching a cross-border military operation in northern Syria in the second week of October. The Western media was quick to jump the gun and in most cases fed on propaganda circulated by the YPG, a Syrian affiliate of the PKK, which is considered to be a terror group by the US, Turkey and the EU.
Criticising the inconsiderate attitude of Western powers toward the question of Turkey's security concerns, Sami al Arian, a prominent Palestinian civil rights activist, said that Turkey’s concerns are real in the face of the YPG’s growing presence in northern Syria. “Part of strategic imperatives to do this is whenever they see an emerging power and whenever they see a country that wants to be independent, being able and willing to defy the US dictates and US strategic imperatives, is to create - what they call - a balancing power,” Arian said.
Most of Turkey’s neighbours, Bulgaria, Greece, Armenia, Georgia, Cyprus, Iraq and Syria, are weak countries. They aren't effective enough to be pitted against Ankara, according to Arian. For the Pentagon and other powers, who are planning these balancing acts against Turkey, the only way to keep Ankara’s emerging power under control is to create a power which can check it. Turkey has a significant Kurdish population, corresponding to 15 to 20 percent,Arian thinks that the US wants to use “some elements within the Kurdish community championed by the PKK, which wants to separate from and destabilise Turkey” to force Ankara to accept American demands.
Wie immer, die Türkei streitet alles ab, obwohl die Beweise erdrückend sind 😈
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