Friday, August 26, 2016

Convincing Erdogan to displace Sunni ISIS from Jarabulus was a good call

It's Complicated with Turkey because of it's denial of the Armenian massacre at the end of Ottoman Empire which was also the end of the federalism that peacefully accommodated the various sects, clans and tribes within it. Turkey's Erdogan fears Kurdish separatism to a point of irrationality.  He should embrace Kurdistan efforts to form a Kurdish nation as a means of diffusing the call for separation in Turkey.  As an ally the U.S. shouldn't be a part of its denial of its Armenian history or its irrational call of declaring the PKK as terrorists rather than a political union. However, pointing out that not all of Northern Syria is Kurdish and that Turkey has a role in displacing radical Sunni ISIS from normally Sunni parts of Syria because the Kurds are not interested in empire where they fight, sacrifice and die taking over and administering non Kurdish regions was a good call.

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