Turkey: Targeting Those Who Roll Back ISIL

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TEHRAN (FNA)- It would take a blind man in the dark not to notice one obvious fact about the ongoing airstrikes by the United States and Turkey: They are protecting the terrorist groups of ISIL and al-Qaeda – their assets - by attacking Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria.

Turkey: Targeting Those Who Roll Back ISIL
Tue Aug 11, 2015 11:18

The Turks are free to hype their tight coordination with American air power against ISIL. But they cannot hide the fact that they seem to be much more aggressively going after Kurdish targets – the only forces in Northern Syria that are actually fighting the death cult of ISIL.

Little wonder Turkey is under attack from all directions and by different terrorist groups. The attacks on the US consulate in Istanbul, and a series of separate attacks throughout the country that left several people and police officers dead, come amid rising tensions over Turkey's involvement in the US-led aerial strikes against ISIL, Kurdistan Workers Party, and pretty much anything that moves in Iraq and Syria.

In a sense, Turkey has a lot on its plate these days. Even as Turkey agreed to join the air war, it immediately began bombarding Kurdish civilian areas. The idea is to set up a “safe zone” (read bombardment zone) along a 100km strip of the border region that features another exclusion: At Turkey’s request, it is also explicitly a zone free of Syrian Kurdish forces - even though they had begun advancing toward the area to start battling ISIL there.

It’s all the reason why instead of celebrating the “increased help,” Kurdish forces are sounding a note of worry. Despite cooperating with American forces for months, Syrian Kurds are now starting to worry that their success might not outweigh Ankara’s alliance of convenience with Washington.

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1. Probably targeted for being Kurds, not for fighting ISIL

So the US and allies are cool with it. It's amazing how the Kurdish people are totally screwed and sold out repeatedly, and the entire world just says "so what?" Living in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria, four great countries - you basically never hear anyone willing to criticize these noble countries for their treatment of Kurds. Even the most vocal human rights advocates are silent. DU could give two hoots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds