Turkey is going after BOTH the PKK, which has been fighting ISIS, and ISIS???
Trump needs to come out for the Kurds and against the Sunni/Shiite B0z0s.
Turk not going after IS, just the Kurds. Going after ISIS is just smokescreen for the Western audience
“The Iraq strikes were the first time Turkey had attacked the Kurdistan Workers’ Party since a 2013 truce.”
“But it seems Turkey insisted that strikes against IS go hand-in-hand with those against the PKK. That complicates matters: the coalition is working with Kurdish forces against IS and a fragile ceasefire with the PKK may now end, raising fears of renewed Kurdish violence in Turkey. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has one eye on possible new elections in the autumn, hoping to court nationalist voters. A hard line against the PKK would help that.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33663005
Kick them out of NATO
Turkey supports ISIS.
Turkey IS ISIS!
ISIS is supported by Israel, the West, and the Arabs. Each support for their own national interests.
Israel benefits from ISIS incursion against the secular dictator. Plus, it makes the region more Islamist, which is good PR for Israel. Up until a certain point, Israel benefits from ISIS.
The West loves conflict in that region for a number of reasons, mostly economical and geopolitical. It feeds the military industrial complex from which we all benefit.
Finally, Arabs support their more Islamist brothers... they fear and support at the same time.
Turkey’s Erdogan says will ‘never allow’ Kurdish state: media
ISTANBUL | Sat Jun 27, 2015
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Saturday as saying Turkey would never allow the formation of a Kurdish state embracing its south-east and parts of northern Syria, comments likely to anger Kurds as a peace process with Ankara stalls.
Turkey has looked askance as Syrian Kurds have made military advances against Islamic State militants in neighboring Syria, fearing that could lead to the creation of an autonomous Kurdish state there and further embolden Turkey’s own 14 million-strong Kurdish minority.
“We will never allow the establishment of a state in Syria’s north and our south. We will continue our fight in this regard no matter what it costs,” local media quoted Erdogan as saying during a dinner late on Friday.
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