Turkey Urges Victorious Syrian Jihadis to Turn Against Kurds

[Tall Timbers]

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Sunday urged the al-Qaeda-linked jihadi rebels who toppled Syrian dictator Bashar Assad to consider teaming up with Turkish forces against the Kurds.

“Opposition groups should be united now,” Fidan said — by which he meant every “opposition group” except the Kurds.

“We hope they can come together and start working in an orderly manner to have a good transition period, to end by including all the parties inside Syria,” he said.

Fidan said Turkey’s top priorities were “a peaceful transition, preserving Syria’s territorial integrity and curbing the influence of Syrian Kurdish groups.”

Turkey Urges Victorious Syrian Jihadis to Turn Against Kurds

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan urges the jihadis who toppled Syrian dictator Bashar Assad to team up against the Kurds.

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Turkey could find itself fighting the US if it goes to strongly against the Kurds. I wonder what the alliance does when 2 members war with each other...

 

[Hol]

I wonder what the alliance does when 2 members war with each other...

The mess is confusing to me. Carolyn Glick has a recent podcast that painted in some of the historical background that helped me. At the end of WW1 the Ottoman Empire collapsed. British and French colonialists made an agreement called Sykes-Picot to divvy up all of that land. They didn’t want any of their new states to have strong leadership, so minority tribes were placed in leadership, i.e., in Syria the Assad were of a small Muslim tribe, the Alawites; in Lebanon Christians were to rule, etc.

Anyhow, the infighting was built in. And, Islam is full of violence, so there’s constant battles.

 

[Margery]

Praying for the whole thing, and for Israel and the Christians caught up in it. The Kurds who just want to have their own country back- they are the ancient Medes and there is a prophecy about them as part of Babylon's eventual end. It's kind of amazing (God again) that they've been preserved as a people group thru all the millennia of upheaval. Kind of like the Jews- impossible yet for God's purposes, He preserves them as a distinct people group.

 

[Tall Timbers]

It would be nice if the Kurds could manage to establish a country out of this mess. They hold a lot of eastern Syria right now... puts them pretty close to Babylon.