Of all the things going wrong in the "Middle East," the Syrian Kurd anarcho-socialists are not one of them. Plus, I remember when Saddam what's his name used to do bad things to innocent Kurds it was not acceptable. If only these people could be allowed peace, liberty, and justice from U.S. allies, even as they fight fundamentalist enemies of peace, liberty, and justice.
According to the New York Times:
Turkey has confirmed that it struck positions in Syria held by Kurdish militias that over the last year have become the most important allies within Syria of the American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State.
The confirmation of the strikes, which the Kurds said took place over the weekend, adds a new level of complexity to the United States’ struggle to put together a coherent strategy to fight the Islamic State in Syria. It also increases tensions between the United States and Turkey, which are nominally allies in the battle against the militant group, but whose interests diverge substantially.
This comes on the heels of
the Ankara bombing, which the Turkish PM tried to blame on the victims.
With friends like this, it is long past time for the U.S to reconsider its relationship with the Turkish government. Allegiance to 20th century imposed nation state boundaries is one thing. Attacking tolerant anarcho-socialists, including brave women fighters, who are successfully cooperating with Arabs and each other in fighting ISIS is another:
The limited Turkish strikes came after the P.Y.D. declared last week that Tal Abyad was part of an autonomous region in northern Syria that the Kurds call Rojava. Turkey views the development as a national security threat because it could inflame separatist sentiments among its own Kurds.
The government had already renewed fighting in July with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., both in Turkey and in Iraq, where the group has camps in the mountains of the north. But Turkey had, for a time, seemed to turn a blind eye to Syria’s Kurds because of their growing relationship with the United States, which had argued that the P.Y.D. should be regarded as separate from the P.K.K., even though the groups have close ties and a shared socialist ideology.