Should the US and Turkey Supports International Terrorism to Disturb Kurds in Syria

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July 27, 2013

Serious clashes erupted between Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group Jabhat Al-Nusra and Kurdish People’s Defense Units known as YPG in the Kurdish cities of Tirpa Spi and Sare Kani. The Kurdish Defense Unites holds the control of the entire city and expelled Al-Qaida terrorists. On the other occasion, Kurdish security captured Jabhat Al-Nusra leader (Amer) and as well as the leader of Islamic State in Iraq. In respond, Al-Qaeda militias hold about 200 Kurdish civilians as hostages and used them as live shields which has also confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Defense and human right groups. To protect the life of the hostages, then YPG agreed to release their leaders in exchange to the release of the civilian hostages. For that reason, YPG sent a Kurdish delegate to negotiate with Jabhat Al-Nusra to release hostages as its signed in the agreement, but they arrested the delegate and cut his head off in public.

After this, Islamic extremists in Syria claimed Jihad against Kurdish and vindicated Kurdish blood and let militias to take their Kurdish girls and properties. This has seriously angered Kurdish people from all over the world. However, the International communities and human right organizations kept silent except Russia which has strongly condemned Al-Qaeda atrocities and abuses against peaceful Kurdish population.

Unfortunately, just like what happened in Afghanistan during the Taliban war with Soviet, the USA, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some other Western country maintain their supports to the Radicals under the name of the Free Syrian Army. In the past, US supported Al-Qaeda against Russia and then

Qaeda emerged to be the US biggest enemy, same scenario may happens if the US foreign policy in Syria does not analyze the danger of Free Syrian Army and extremists in Syria. They are financially and logically fund the Free Syrian Army which is controlled by the Al-Qaeda affiliated groups. So, it doesn’t only threaten Kurds and the stability of the region, but Turkish and American National Security would be endangered in the future. So, they are better off to review their foreign policies and recognize their enemies and friends. Bashar Assad never posed serious threats to the US in the past, and Kurds never become threats to Turkey or any other neighboring countries. So, supporting ongoing conflicts against Kurds in Kurdish regions in Syria does not give them any advantage.

In Syria, Kurds used to be a victim more than any other ethnic and religious groups. More than half of them doesn’t even have identity and the government denied to recognize them. Therefore, their policy makers successfully protected their people from aggressions and provided safe zone even for Christians and other minority groups inside Syria. When you protect your people and homes from attacks, it doesn’t mean you are supporting one side of the conflict, but it spectacles the success of your policies. This is precisely what Kurds do; they don’t want to be a side of the conflict as they can not get anything from blood shedding. However; some countries continually accuse them for supporting Bashar and fund extremists with no regard to the geopolitics of this part of Kurdistan which has border with Turkey, any clashes there would be transferred to Turkey and Turkey would become a safe zone for Al-Qaeda-linked extremists.

The most important steps to break extremists from ranging their activities and protect Kurds, should be done by the US and Turkey. The US should halt its supports to the FSA since they threat on the US National Security. Besides, they should encourage other western countries to help Kurds to maintain the stability of their region and send civic aids for the Kurdish population. The US and NATO are also better to provide military supports for the YPG since the region has to be free from Assad forces and Radical Islamics. It’s the common objective of the Kurds and the International Community.

On the other hands, Turkey should be assured that establishing any forms of autonomy in Northern Syria by Kurds would not destabilize the region and would not disturb Turkey in any ways. Turkey should understand that even Kurds creates semi-autonomous Kurdistan as they did in Iraq, which would provides them with major opportunity. At the beginning Turkey was also against creating autonomous region of Kurdistan in Iraq, but now it’s the economic powerhouse for Turkish companies and businessmen. More than 50 thousand Turkish workers found their jobs in region. Despite the fact that Kurds have more parallels with Turkish than Arabs or others. So, Turkey should ends any support to the terrorists. They should no longer provide them guns to kill innocent civilians. Such aids give Turkey and other negative images and history would never forgive them. If they continue supporting terrorists who are beheading civilians, then what would be the difference between Al-Qaeda and those countries? I would say those who are supporting and funding terrorism are more dangerous and more felonious than the one who commit the act.

The US and Turkey must understand the fact that they are feeding snakes which is known by them as International terrorism. Whenever its poison is noxious with their nutrition, it would bite them before anyone else. Finally, International Community and Human Rights Organizations are responsible for the prospects of 200 Kurdish hostages as some of them were beheaded by terrorist group of Jabhat Al-Nusra.

Nabaz Shwany, Bachelor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Kurdistan-Hewler. Master of Public Management at the school of Government, University Utara Malaysia. Shwany is a regular contributing writer and columnist for Ekurd.net.

First published by Ekurd.net July 27, 2013

Copyright © 2013 Should the US and Turkey Supports International Terrorism to Disturb Kurds in Syria? By Nabaz Shwany

 

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The US and Turkey must understand
the fact that they are feeding snakes

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handing weapons to the syrian "FREEDOM FIGHTERS"
is no different from handing them to the taliban------
Try to remember the 1980s when the taliban were
called "FREEDOM FIGHTERS"

best answer-----salvage the people----those running from
both assad and the islamicists------to wit---the christians,
kurds, ----and any and all decent 'others' ---the bad news
is that some elements in Turkey may be delighted to feed
the snakes------

 

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In each area, religious, ideological and turf power struggles are under way and battle lines tend to ebb and flow, making it impossible to predict exactly what Syria could look like once the combatants lay down their arms. But the longer the bloody conflict drags on, analysts says, the more difficult it will be to piece together a coherent Syrian state from the wreckage. "There is no doubt that as a distinct single entity, Syria has ceased to exist," said Charles Lister, an analyst at IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Center. "Considering the sheer scale of its territorial losses in some areas of the country, Syria no longer functions as a single all-encompassing unitarily-governed state." The geographic dividing lines that have emerged over the past two years and effectively cleft the nation in three remain fluid, but the general outlines can be traced on a map.

The regime holds a firm grip on a corridor running from the southern border with Jordan, through the capital Damascus and up to the Mediterranean coast, where a large portion of the population belongs to President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect. The rebels, who are primarily drawn from Syria's Sunni Muslim majority, control a chunk of territory that spans parts of Idlib and Aleppo provinces in the north and stretches along the Euphrates river to the porous Iraqi border in the east. Tucked into the far northeastern corner, meanwhile, Syria's Kurdish minority enjoys semi-autonomy. Those contours provide the big picture view. The view from the ground, however, is slightly muddied. While Sunni rebels control large swathes of Syria's rural regions in the north, the government still controls provincial capitals there, with the exception of Raqqa city and parts of Aleppo city. The regime also still retains some military bases and checkpoints in the overwhelmingly rebel-held countryside, but those are besieged and isolated and supplies for troops are air-dropped by helicopters or planes.

Moreover, the opposition movement itself is far from monolithic, and there have been increasing outbursts of infighting between al-Qaida affiliated extremists and moderate rebel groups, as well as between Kurds and rebels of a radical Islamic bent. That violence holds the potential to escalate into a full-blown war among armed opposition factions. The Assad regime has made headway in recent months in the strategic heartland of Homs, clawing back territory long-held by rebel fighters. Those gains have helped the government secure its grip on Damascus and the pathway to the coast. They also have reinforced opposition accusations that Assad's military is driving out local Sunni communities to try to carve out a breakaway Alawite enclave that could become a refuge for the community if the regime falls.

For now, Assad's overstretched and war-weary troops appear unable to regain the vast territories they have lost to rebels and jihadists who now control oil wells and other key resources such as dams and electricity plants in the north and east. Black al-Qaida flags that carry the Muslim declaration of the faith now fly over many areas there, as a way to mark their turf distinctly from the three-starred green, black and white flag flown by the various rebel brigades that make up the loose-knit, Western-backed Free Syrian Army. In the north, fighter brigades have set up judicial councils known as Shariah courts that dispense their own version of justice based on Islamic law, including in some cases, executions of captured regime soldiers and supporters.

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