Bovenstaande landkaart uit 2006 is afkomstig uit een tijdschrift voor de gewapende strijdkrachten van de VS. Op de tekentafel heeft men het Midden Oosten herverdeeld. In 2006 leek dit onzin, maar tegenwoordig hebben we ISIS en de oude grenzen vervagen. Zoals blijkt uit de kaart, zou het NATO-land Turkije een flink stuk territorium moeten inleveren, terwijl de door Turkije zo gehate Koerden een eigen “onafhankelijke” staat krijgen. De strategie van de VS wordt dan duidelijk: verdeel en heers!
Een belangrijke overweging is dat ISIS niet zomaar uit de lucht kwam vallen. Deze “moslim-terroristen” worden gesteund door de VS, het land dat het hardst roept dat ze ISIS bestrijden! Ook Turkije neemt nu eindelijk deel aan de strijd tegen ISIS, terwijl dat land tot voor kort juist een doorvoerland was voor troepen en bevoorrading van ISIS. De enigen die serieus lijken te strijden tegen ISIS zijn de Koerden! Maar terwijl Turkije nu bommen gooit op plaatsen waar ISIS de baas is, bombardeert Turkije ook de versterkingen van de Koerden, de PKK die opereert vanuit Irakees Koerdistan. Krankzinnig? Of maakt dit alles deel uit van een plan waarvan bovenstaande kaart reeds getuigde?
Dat de VS zijn grote vijand Al Qaida ooit zelf in het leven heeft geroepen en financierde, is tegenwoordig wel een feit van algemene bekendheid. ISIS komt echter uit dezelfde koker! En onder het mom van vrijheid en democratie heeft de VS de zogenaamde burgeroorlog in Syrië veroorzaakt. De “gematigde moslimstrijders” die openlijk door de VS worden gesteund met wapens en geld, zijn vaak dik bevriend met ISIS!
Genesis: The real story behind the rise of ISIS
Islamic State was not accident; it was engineered, assisted, trained and deployed under the authority of the United States to invade, occupy and exploit the Middle East, while claiming liberation and democracy-building.
The US Hand in the Syrian Mess
Neocons and the mainstream U.S. media place all the blame for the Syrian civil war on President Bashar al-Assad and Iran, but there is another side of the story in which Syria’s olive branches to the U.S. and Israel were spurned and a reckless drive for “regime change” followed, writes Jonathan Marshall.
By Jonathan Marshall
July 22, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – “Consortium News” – Syria’s current leader, Bashar al-Assad replaced his autocratic father as president and head of the ruling Ba’ath Party in 2000. Only 35 years old and British educated, he aroused widespread hopes at home and abroad of introducing reforms and liberalizing the regime. In his first year he freed hundreds of political prisoners and shut down a notorious prison, though his security forces resumed cracking down on dissenters a year later.
But almost from the start, Assad was marked by the George W. Bush administration for “regime change.” Then, in the early years of Barack Obama’s presidency, there were some attempts at diplomatic engagement, but shortly after a civil conflict broke out in 2011, the legacy of official U.S. hostility toward Syria set in motion Washington’s disastrous confrontation with Assad which continues to this day.
Thus, the history of the Bush administration’s approach toward Syria is important to understand. Shortly after 9/11, former NATO Commander Wesley Clark learned from a Pentagon source that Syria was on the same hit list as Iraq. As Clark recalled, the Bush administration “wanted us to destabilize the Middle East, turn it upside down, make it under our control.”
Sure enough, in a May 2002 speech titled “Beyond the Axis of Evil,” Under Secretary of State John Bolton named Syria as one of a handful of “rogue states” along with Iraq that “can expect to become our targets.” Assad’s conciliatory and cooperative gestures were brushed aside.
In choosing to cite human rights selectively as their rationale for regime change, Western governments — including the Obama administration — followed longstanding double standards. Many of the U.S-backed states involved in the anti-Assad campaign, including Saudi Arabia and Israel, have also committed gross human rights violations and war crimes, whether at home or in neighboring territories and states such as Gaza, Yemen and Lebanon.
In Syria as in Libya and Iraq, human rights became a convenient bludgeon for supporting the longstanding ambition of U.S. neoconservatives to topple critical Arab regimes as part of their grand plan for remaking the map of the Middle East. The worthy cause of saving lives perversely enabled a much greater sacrifice of Syrian lives.
Wie herinnert zich nog de strijd om Kobani? Deze grensstad in Syrisch Koerdistan werd in de herfst van vorig jaar ingenomen door ISIS, terwijl Turkije de grens dicht hield voor Koerden die hun volksgenoten wilden helpen. Ten slotte kregen de Koerden steun van de VS, Kobani werd plat gebombardeerd en de vluchtelingen konden “naar huis terugkeren”, ware het niet dat hun huis niet meer bestond! In hun strijd tegen ISIS krijgen de Koerden sindsdien steun van de VS, maar Turkije is daar niet blij mee! Turkije is echter een NATO-land, dus het moet niet teveel dwarsliggen. De strategie lijkt nu te zijn: je kunt het ene doen en het andere niet laten!
Turkey Launches War On Islamic State’s Worst Enemies – The Kurds
By Moon Of Alabama
July 25, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – Since 2013 a ceasefire between the state of Turkey and Kurdish PKK rebels in south-east Turkey held up well. The government pledged some support for Kurdish cultural autonomy and in return the ruling AK Party gained votes from parts of the Kurdish constituency. The AKP government also has good relations with the Kurds in north Iraq. It buys oil from the Kurdish regional government and supports the kleptocracy of the ruling Barzani clan in that autonomous Iraqi region.
The PKK is a militant Kurdish organization in Turkey. The equivalent in Syria is known as YPG. In Iran the group is called PJAK and in Iraq HPG. The HDP party in Turkey is the political arm of the PKK. The PYD is the political arm of the Syrian YPG. All these are essentially the same egalitarian, secular marxist/anarchist organization striving for Kurdish autonomy or independence.
Turkey has now reopened its war on the PKK Kurds in Turkey, Iraq and in Syria. Turkish police rounded up hundreds of Kurdish activists in Turkey and tonight dozens of Turkish fighter planes attacked PKK positions in Syria and Iraq. This war is likely to escalate and will be long and bloody. It will be mostly fought on Turkish ground. How did it come to this?
Turkey joins US war in Syria
By our Turkish correspondent
25 July 2015
Over the past two days, Turkey’s government has executed a sharp shift in its foreign policy, aligning itself more closely with Washington’s military strategy in the region and effectively becoming an active part of the US-led “coalition” waging war in Iraq and Syria.
For a long time, Ankara had refrained from supporting the US-led war, ostensibly aimed against the Islamic State in Syria (ISIS), insisting on a policy aimed at toppling the government of President Bashar al-Assad and covertly supporting ISIS, both against the Syrian regime and against Kurdish nationalists.
On Wednesday, however, US President Barack Obama and Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan agreed in a phone call to work together to secure the Turkish-Syrian border and fight against ISIS.
Turkey steps up its offensive against ISIL and PKK
Kurdish Forces in Syria Fired Upon by Turkish Tanks
News | 27.07.2015 | 10:48
Turkey tense amid air strikes on ISIL and PKK
Kurdish group says “truce not meaningful” after Turkish air strikes
Daarmee is de strijd van de Turken tegen de Koerden weer opgelaaid. Maar de Turken zitten nu wel in een spagaat! Enerzijds is er de NATO die ISIS bestrijdt, anderzijds zijn er de Koerden die ISIS bestrijden. De eersten doen dat uit geopolitieke overwegingen, de laatsten uit lijfsbehoud! Want ISIS houdt niet van Koerden. Als zij een Koerdische stad of dorp veroveren, dan worden de mannen vermoord en de vrouwen verkocht als slavinnen. De Koerden bestrijden ISIS daarom op leven en dood! Om uit deze spagaat te geraken, willen de Turken nu praten met de NATO: Turkey summons NATO session amid airstrike campaign against ISIS & Kurdish PKK
Op de achtergrond speelt intussen ook de binnenlandse politiek van Turkije, waar onlangs verkiezingen plaats vonden waarbij een pro-Koerdische partij 13% van de stemmen haalde en nu 80 zetels krijgt in het Turkse parlement. Voor de Koerden, die al vele jaren vechten voor het recht op een Koerdische identiteit en een zekere autonomie voor het Koerdische deel van Turkije, brengt een dergelijke uitslag hoop! Maar voor de rechter flank van de Turkse samenleving, zijn de bombardementen op Koerden dan weer een gebruikelijke reactie.
The Kurdish Question and the Economic Outlook
With regard to the Kurdish question, the emergence of the HDP might provide a stimulus for renewed dialogue. In its electoral manifesto, among other measures, the party had pledged to back up self-rule with the introduction of regional assemblies. Since the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres – calling for autonomy for the Kurdish people; a call that remained unheeded –the Kurdish question remains unresolved.
After decades of failed attempts at greater self-government, the official opening of negotiations with regard to Turkey’s accession to the European Union represented a shift in perspective and, with it, the potential for greater recognition of Kurdish cultural identity.
The latest elections might possibly induce greater momentum towards a definitive settlement as this involves the continued pursuit of peace talks with the outlawed armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Die vredesbesprekingen worden nu met succes gebombardeerd! Het is echter de vraag hoe dat in de toekomst gaat uitpakken… Het is niet onmogelijk dat Turkije in zijn systematische onderdrukking van de Koerden nu eindelijk zijn hand heeft overspeeld!
Has Turkey bitten off more than it can chew? duurt 25 minuten.
Gepubliceerd op 26 jul. 2015
Turkey is now fighting two very different battles at the same time. Turkish fighter jets have been hitting PKK positions in Iraq for days. The Kurdish PKK has been fighting for greater autonomy within Turkey for 30 years, and more than 40,000 Turkish and Kurdish soldiers and civilians have died during the struggle. Between 30 and 40 million Kurds live in adjoining regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. Meanwhile, at the same time, Turkey is now also bombing ISIL bases in Syria. The battles become complicated when you take into account the group at the forefront of the international fight against ISIL is another Kurdish group; the YPG.
Presenter: Sami Zeidan.
Guests: In Ankara: Bilal Sambur, a Kurdish Political Analyst and Head of the SESA Institute of Social, Economic, and Political Research in Ankara. In London: Galip Dalay, the Research Director of Al Sharq Forum, a think-tank based in Istanbul. In Washington DC: Richard Weitz,a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute who also directs the institute’s Center for Political-Military Analysis.
Hoe ernstig de onderdrukking van de Koerden in Turkije is, moge blijken uit het volgende filmpje. Een jonge vrouw zingt Koerdische volksliederen en dat is verboden. De straf: 10 1/2 jaar gevangenis!
Meet The Kurdish Woman Imprisoned For Singing In Turkey
Gepubliceerd op 30 apr. 2015
Nûdem Durak sings and teaches Kurdish folk songs to kids in Turkey. She says her work honors her heritage, but the government recently imprisoned her for promoting Kurdish propaganda. Caught in a decades-long conflict between Turkey and the Kurds, Nûdem’s future is now uncertain.
Turkey’s War On Kurds Realigns Syrian Kurds With Their Government
By Moon Of Alabama
July 27, 2015 “Information Clearing House” –
Syrian Kurds: Turkish Forces Shelling Our Fighters Near Kobani
News | 28.07.2015 | 11:11
antiwar.com – Syrian Kurdish militia faction the YPG is reporting that as Turkey has started launching attacks on ISIS, they have also started attacking Kurdish targets inside Syria, including hitting a number of YPG forces with shelling against villages on the outskirts of Kobani.
The YPG slammed the “Turkish aggression” and demanding they stop attacking Kurdish defensive forces, and instead focus their fire on ISIS forces that are occupying Kurdish territory in the area. They advised Turkey to follow “international guidelines” on this targeting.
Turkish officials insisted they did not attack YPG positions in northern Syria, but later did say they intend to carry out an investigation into the claims. They went on to say that they don’t consider the YPG within the scope of their current wars against ISIS and the Kurdish PKK in Iraq.
Turkey has long treated the YPG’s political wing, the PYD, as the Syrian branch of the PKK, however, and they have been pushing for action against Kurdish forces in northern Syria for weeks now. This makes the denials somewhat harder to believe, as Turkey seems to be attacking anyone and everyone it doesn’t like in the area right now.
With US backing, Turkey prepares to seize buffer zones inside Syria
By Peter Schwarz
28 July 2015
After agreeing last week to join the US-led war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Turkey is preparing to seize buffer zones within Syria, backed by US warplanes and Syrian opposition militias. This escalation follows weeks of talks with a high-ranking US delegation, and a phone call between Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and US President Barack Obama.
“What we are talking about with Turkey is cooperating to support partners on the ground in northern Syria who are countering ISIL,” an unnamed senior US official told the Wall Street Journal, referring to one of the ISIS’s alternate acronyms. “The goal is to establish an ISIL-free zone and ensure greater security and stability along Turkey’s border with Syria.”
Het NOS journaal had het gisteren even over Turkije en de Koerden! In het slotcommentaar van de NATO vergadering werden de Koerden zelfs niet genoemd. Toch bombardeert Turkije de Koerden, onder het mom van de strijd tegen ISIS.
In het NOS journaal wordt de zaak echter weer eens omgedraaid. De Turken begonnen met het bombarderen van de PKK, waarna er in Turkije weer aanslagen volgden. Het item duurt ongeveer 9 minuten.
Approving Air Strikes Against the PKK America’s Worst Error in the Middle East Since the Iraq War?
Turkish air attacks on the PKK have provoked bloody Kurdish retaliation. With claims that America approved the strikes that restarted the conflict, Patrick Cockburn argues that the US may have made its worst mistake since invading Iraq
By Patrick Cockburn
The U.S. and Turkey Have A *Something* Plan
By Moon Of Alabama
The Deadly Turkish Deception
Niet alleen bombardeert Turkije de Koerden in Irak en Syrië, op dit moment woeden er bosbranden rond de stad Lice, die wordt beschouwd als de bakermat van de PKK. (Baybasin is geboren in een dorpje vlak bij Lice, maar Baybasin is géén PKK!)
Wildfires hit forests in southern Turkey
Ankara’s response to forest fires ignites Kurdish anger
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/07/turkey-kurds-pkk-forest-fires-cause-political-mayhem.html#ixzz3hNH4i6n1
Te beginnen met een artikel van Donkerdoorn op Zapruder:
Syrië: de ISIS en Turkije Show
Posted on 2015-07-29 by Donkerdoorn
En dan een lang, maar zeer gedegen artikel van Mike Whitney:
The Politics of Betrayal: Obama Backstabs Kurds to Appease Turkey
By Mike Whitney
July 30, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – “Counterpunch” –
Washington Turns Its Back on Kurds Fighting ISIS
By Lee Fang
July 30, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – “The Intercept” –
Zie voor Rojava het volgende artikel op BOUblog. Erdogan strijdt niet tegen ISIS, maar tegen Rojava!
Over de afloop ben ik somber en ik ben niet de enige!
NATO Member Busted Massively Supporting ISIS … Now Declares War Against ISIS, But Instead Goes After Its Political Rival (Which Is the Most Effective Force FIGHTING ISIS)
The Potential For A Libya 2.0?
A “No-Fly Zone” by Any Other Name – The “ISIL-Free Zone” in Syria
Turkey – America’s New Sweetheart
Nog een gedegen artikel van Mike Whitney:
Power-Mad Erdogan Launches War in Attempt to Become Turkey’s Supreme Leader
By Mike Whitney
Obama’s “Safe Zone” in Syria will Inflame the War Zone
By Shamus Cooke
Erodoğan and Netanyahu Declare War
By James Petras
En dit heeft natuurlijk NIETS te maken met de deal tussen Erdogan en Obama om een “Free zone” te maken op Koerdisch gebied in Syrië:
Turkish Stream Talks Reportedly Suspended, Delays Possible
Reportedly Turkey is tying the signing of the agreement on a further gas price discount – Russia disagrees
Iraqi Kurds Calls for Kurdistan Workers Party to Leave Its Territory
News | 02.08.2015 | 11:25
Sputnik – The Kurdish regional government in Iraq urges Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to leave its territory to prevent casualties among civilians, Turkish Anadolu Agency reported.
Earlier on Saturday, Turkey conducted a series of airstrikes against the camps of PKK in northern Iraq. During these bombings nine civilians were killed and 15 were wounded.
“The PKK should withdraw from the region so that civilians in the Kurdish region will not be the victims of the clashes… The PKK should keep the battlefield out of the region. Continuation of the battle mostly harms civilians,” the statement of the Kurdish regional government in Iraq said on Saturday, as quoted by the Anadolu news agency.
Duitsland pruttelt nu tegen:
German-US tensions intensify following Turkish attack on Kurdish minority
By Stefan Steinberg
3 August 2015
Een artikel met heel veel links naar andere artikelen:
USA, Turkey and Israel Act As Air Force for ISIS
Posted on August 3, 2015 by WashingtonsBlog
Op bovenstaande kaart, die ook wel de Ralph Peters kaart wordt genoemd, is Saoedi Arabië een flink stuk kleiner geworden. Het volgende artikel gaat over de huidige situatie van Saoedi Arabië.
Saudi Arabia: When the Rubicon is Crossed
Een ander artikel over het zelfde land:
United States is Destroying Saudi Arabia
British SAS Special Forces “Dressed Up as ISIS Rebels” Fighting Assad in Syria
By Stephen Lendman
August 05, 2015 “Information Clearing House” –
How US Allies Aid Al Qaeda in Syria
The dirty secret about the Obama administration’s “regime change” strategy in Syria is that it amounts to a de facto alliance with Al Qaeda’s Nusra Front which is driving toward a possible victory with direct and indirect aid from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Israel, as Daniel Lazare explains.
By Daniel Lazare
Syria: Negotiating Ethnic Cleansing And A Temporary Partition
By Moon Of Alabama
August 05, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – “Moon Of Alabama” –
De immer zo vriendelijke en geduldige Poetin wordt nu eindelijk boos!
Russian president to Turkish ambassador: “tell your dictator President he can go to hell along with his ISIS terrorists, I will make Syria a ‘Big Stalingrad’ for him!”
Obama will not let Putin defeat ISIS
Corbett Report: British Special Forces “Dressing Up” As ISIS…What Could Go Wrong? duurt 7 minuten.
Shownotes: https://www.corbettreport.com/british-special-forces-dressing-up-as-isis-what-could-go-wrong/
Een lang en volgens mij gedegen artikel op Stop de Bankiers:
Turkijes regionale en internationale kopzorgen