Posts Tagged: Turkey Kurds
Syria Poised to Attack Kurdish-Held Towns to Pressure Stalled Talks, Sources Say
Syrian troops are poised to attack towns in the north and east held by Kurdish fighters, sources familiar with the matter said, to pressure autonomy-minded Kurds into making concessions in deadlocked talks with the Damascus government. The threat of renewed military...
Turkey Says Syrian Government Could Use Force Against Kurds
The Syrian government army could use further force against Kurdish militants after a flare-up in violence in northern Syria, the foreign minister of neighboring Turkey, a strong backer of the Syrian authorities, said on Thursday. More...
Turkey Claims Kurdish-Led SDF Does Not Intend to Advance Integration With Syrian State
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in Syria appear to have no intention of honoring a commitment to integrate into the state's armed forces by a...
Turkey Says It Will Help Boost Lebanese Army’s Capacity Under Mandate
Turkish peacekeeping forces will continue to help boost the Lebanese army's capability under a renewed deployment mandate in Lebanon, Turkey's Defense Ministry said on Thursday. Turkey's parliament passed a bill on Tuesday to renew the military's deployment mandates...
How Turkey and Israel Treat Minorities
JNS.org - When the Israeli military aircraft hit sites on April 16 linked to the Gaza Strip’s terrorist Hamas government, including an armaments production facility...
Erdogan Says Turkey Will Expand Operations Against Kurdish Militants
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday Turkey will expand its cross-border operations against Kurdish militants after 13 captured Turks were killed in northern Iraq. Turkey said on Sunday militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) killed the captives, including...
Turkey’s Boycott Threats Are Preposterous
Turkey is a big market, so Ankara has a potentially powerful tool at its disposal with which to accomplish foreign policy goals. If 80 million...
Turkey’s Relationship with ISIS Proves It Is Deserting Its European Allies
In view of Turkey’s increasingly divisive and destabilizing influence in the Middle East, the region’s biggest concern for the West could be President Recep Tayyip...
Prominent Advocates for Kurdish Rights Publish NY Times Ad Urging Break With Turkey’s Erdogan
Marking the first anniversary of Turkey's invasion of northern Syria, the advocacy group Justice for Kurds (JFK) ran a double-page advertisement in Friday's print edition...
Implications of the US Withdrawal From Syria
On the morning of October 24, 1973, the Israeli ambassador in Washington was summoned for an urgent discussion with White House Chief of Staff Gen....
Putin’s Nefarious Polices Are Not New
The multipolar world, the pivot to China, the freeing of Russia from a Eurocentric foreign policy, the building of a liberal empire -- these are...
A Strategic Israeli View of the Turkish Campaign Against the Kurds
In light of recent regional events in general, and the Turkish invasion of Syria in particular, Israel needs to reconsider the underlying strategic rationale not...
Turkey Sees YPG Withdrawal Incomplete; Joint Russian Patrols to Start Friday
Turkey has information that the Kurdish YPG militia has not completed its withdrawal to 30 kilometers (18.64 miles) from the Turkish border in northeast Syria,...
Erdogan and the Kurds: Inspired By Putin?
Turkey’s policy of suppressing Kurdish identity and denying the Kurds their cultural and political rights midwifed the birth in the 1970s of militant groups like...
