PYD should not rely on Russia and US
The Syrian-Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) is regarded as a terrorist organization by Ankara... Why?
The answer is quite simple. The PYD is comprised of PKK terrorists who have hijacked the Syrian-Kurdish cause and have imposed their will on these people. When the PKK used the Qandil Mountains in northwestern Iraq as a base to launch terrorist attacks, it had more than 2,000 Syrian Kurds among its ranks. When Turkey launched its peace and reconciliation campaign with the Kurds three years ago, the Syrians of the PKK started moving into Syria. There were 500,000 Kurds in Syria and the PKK, using its military superiority, imposed its will upon the Syrian Kurds using violence and humiliation tactics. The PKK named itself the PYD and started its campaign to carve out sections of northeastern Syria.
The Assad regime had fallen at odds with its Kurds as it had deprived them of all their citizenship rights. But interestingly, Assad's forces were withdrawn from the border areas with Turkey and the PKK were allowed to settle into the region. Thus, Assad wanted Turkey to face the PKK menace not only in the Iraqi border areas but also in Syria.
The DAESH offensive nearly ended the PYD presence in northern Syria, but thanks to assistance from Turkey and Iraqi-Kurdish peshmerga forces, as well as the active help of the Americans providing the PYD with arms and aerial support, the PYD was saved.
So what did the PYD do in return? On the one hand the PYD pretended to be fighting DEASH and thus received more American and later Russian support. The PYD expanded and strengthened its hold on northern Syria and started creating the groundwork for a separate Kurdish state in northeastern Syria. While doing that, the PYD also gave active support to the PKK terrorists who entered Turkey and started an uprising in various cities and towns in southeastern Turkey.
Turkey says the PKK equals the PYD and they are both the same.
In the past Turkey has hosted PYD officials and told them to end their ties with the PKK. However, when Turkey fell into a period of uncertainty after the June 7 elections when the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) suffered a setback in the polls, losing its parliamentary majority, the PYD and the PKK regarded this as a golden opportunity to further their cause of creating their mini states in Turkey and Syria, and thus, while the PYD intensified its efforts to grab more areas of northern Syria, the PKK unleashed a new terrorist campaign in the cities and towns of southeastern Turkey.
What is sad in all this is that the Americans actively encouraged the PYD to grab more lands in northern Syria giving them more arms and ammunition. The Russians later joined the mess providing added support to the PYD both by using their air power over Syria to bomb everyone opposing the PYD, but did not touch DAESH, which the PYD was supposed to be combating. The Russians and the Americans seem to be competing with each other to help the PYD by sending them military instructors and tacticians.
The Americans say they do not regard the PYD as a terrorist organization. They have repeated this over and over again in the past few days. The U.S. officials are involved in a great contradiction. They say the PKK is a terrorist organization and yet the PYD "official" who met with the special envoy of U.S. President Barack Obama in the northeastern Syrian city of Kobani recently, was a person linked to the PKK who is wanted for terrorist acts. A few days ago PKK terrorists were caught trying to infiltrate Turkey from the PYD-controlled zone. It is clear that the PYD is encouraging the PKK to enter Turkey and destabilize our country. Can the Americans explain all this?
If the PYD feels it is safe simply because the Americans and Russians are currently supporting them then they have to think twice. They are playing with fire and drawing the wrath of Turkey and the Turkish people.
The answer is quite simple. The PYD is comprised of PKK terrorists who have hijacked the Syrian-Kurdish cause and have imposed their will on these people. When the PKK used the Qandil Mountains in northwestern Iraq as a base to launch terrorist attacks, it had more than 2,000 Syrian Kurds among its ranks. When Turkey launched its peace and reconciliation campaign with the Kurds three years ago, the Syrians of the PKK started moving into Syria. There were 500,000 Kurds in Syria and the PKK, using its military superiority, imposed its will upon the Syrian Kurds using violence and humiliation tactics. The PKK named itself the PYD and started its campaign to carve out sections of northeastern Syria.
The Assad regime had fallen at odds with its Kurds as it had deprived them of all their citizenship rights. But interestingly, Assad's forces were withdrawn from the border areas with Turkey and the PKK were allowed to settle into the region. Thus, Assad wanted Turkey to face the PKK menace not only in the Iraqi border areas but also in Syria.
The DAESH offensive nearly ended the PYD presence in northern Syria, but thanks to assistance from Turkey and Iraqi-Kurdish peshmerga forces, as well as the active help of the Americans providing the PYD with arms and aerial support, the PYD was saved.
So what did the PYD do in return? On the one hand the PYD pretended to be fighting DEASH and thus received more American and later Russian support. The PYD expanded and strengthened its hold on northern Syria and started creating the groundwork for a separate Kurdish state in northeastern Syria. While doing that, the PYD also gave active support to the PKK terrorists who entered Turkey and started an uprising in various cities and towns in southeastern Turkey.
Turkey says the PKK equals the PYD and they are both the same.
In the past Turkey has hosted PYD officials and told them to end their ties with the PKK. However, when Turkey fell into a period of uncertainty after the June 7 elections when the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) suffered a setback in the polls, losing its parliamentary majority, the PYD and the PKK regarded this as a golden opportunity to further their cause of creating their mini states in Turkey and Syria, and thus, while the PYD intensified its efforts to grab more areas of northern Syria, the PKK unleashed a new terrorist campaign in the cities and towns of southeastern Turkey.
What is sad in all this is that the Americans actively encouraged the PYD to grab more lands in northern Syria giving them more arms and ammunition. The Russians later joined the mess providing added support to the PYD both by using their air power over Syria to bomb everyone opposing the PYD, but did not touch DAESH, which the PYD was supposed to be combating. The Russians and the Americans seem to be competing with each other to help the PYD by sending them military instructors and tacticians.
The Americans say they do not regard the PYD as a terrorist organization. They have repeated this over and over again in the past few days. The U.S. officials are involved in a great contradiction. They say the PKK is a terrorist organization and yet the PYD "official" who met with the special envoy of U.S. President Barack Obama in the northeastern Syrian city of Kobani recently, was a person linked to the PKK who is wanted for terrorist acts. A few days ago PKK terrorists were caught trying to infiltrate Turkey from the PYD-controlled zone. It is clear that the PYD is encouraging the PKK to enter Turkey and destabilize our country. Can the Americans explain all this?
If the PYD feels it is safe simply because the Americans and Russians are currently supporting them then they have to think twice. They are playing with fire and drawing the wrath of Turkey and the Turkish people.