Kurds

Kurds Crucial to Turkey-US Cooperation in Syria

September 11, 2018 // Arab News - Saudi Arabia

Ankara is aware of the ulterior motive behind Washington’s Kurdish policy: The US wants to use the YPG as leverage to have a stronger negotiating position in the period that will see the transition to democracy in Syria.

Throw Back to Old Times: How Erdogan Is Trying to Become Friends with America Again

May 25, 2017 // RBC - Russia - Russian

<i>The new administration does not really care about the future of the Turkish democracy. Ankara and Washington are still separated by the Kurdish question, but if this question cannot be resolved, it can be avoided.</i> Recep Erdogan started his visit to the U.S. on May 16, during which he met with Donald Trump. [Read more]

The New US Plan to Partition Syria

June 4, 2016 // Komsomolskaya Pravda - Russia

If the Americans take Raqqa ... Russian victories, will be forced out of the public’s consciousness in the same way that the Europeans forget about the Soviet Union’s victory over Hitler.

The Challenge to the US Monopoly in the Middle East

March 1, 2016 // Vzglyad - Russia - Russian

Russia’s participation in the settlement of the Syrian conflict is acquiring a fundamentally new significance. The U.S. monopoly in the Middle East, with an emphasis on the Sunni monarchy, is being challenged.

Main Candidates for US Presidential Election More Aggressive against Islamic State Group than Obama

December 8, 2015 // Le Monde - France - French

The attacks in Paris led the principal candidates for the 2016 U.S. presidential election to put forward, in the days following Nov. 13, their plans for fighting the Islamic State — with good reason, because in little more than a year, one of them will be responsible for waging war on the terrorist group. Behind in [Read more]

Mysterious US Raid in Iraq: What Was the Real Motive?

October 27, 2015 // Panorama Italia - Italy - Italian

The on-the-ground intervention is a partial contradiction of the inflexible line pursued by the White House, which has been careful — up to now — to not overly involve itself in the conflict.

The Bloody Game of Chess Surrounding Syria

October 20, 2015 // Die Welt - Germany - German

Europe's refugee crisis is the result of a chess game with three players.

Barack Obama Has Betrayed the Kurds

September 21, 2015 // Die Welt - Germany - German

<i>A tragic error: The U.S. president is betraying the brave Kurds in return for help from the Turks in the fight against the Islamic State. Under Donald Trump, things would not be any better.</i> In his masterpiece, "The Rebellion of the Masses," the famous Spanish philosopher and essayist José Ortega y Gasset [Read more]

Creating a Kurdish State Is in US Interest

September 17, 2015 // Libertad Digital - Spain - Spanish

Another victim of the unsteady situation in Iraq: the agreement made between the Kurds and Baghdad last December by which the Kurdistan Regional Government suspended its one-sided sale of oil. As cited in the Financial Times, “The federal government withheld payments to Erbil soon after the deal began due to its [Read more]

Obama’s Updated Strategy on ISIS: A Grandiose Role for The Kurds

July 10, 2015 // Turkish Weekly - Turkey

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