Posted on 11/18/2015 10:26:01 PM PST by Cronos
How could Isis be eliminated? In the region, everyone knows. All it would really take would be to unleash the largely Kurdish forces of the YPG (Democratic Union party) in Syria, and PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ party) guerillas in Iraq and Turkey. These are, currently, the main forces actually fighting Isis on the ground. They have proved extraordinarily militarily effective and oppose every aspect of Isis’s reactionary ideology.
But instead, YPG-controlled territory in Syria finds itself placed under a total embargo by Turkey, and PKK forces are under continual bombardment by the Turkish air force. Not only has ErdoÄŸan done almost everything he can to cripple the forces actually fighting Isis; there is considerable evidence that his government has been at least tacitly aiding Isis itself.
It might seem outrageous to suggest that a Nato member like Turkey would in any way support an organisation that murders western civilians in cold blood. That would be like a Nato member supporting al-Qaida. But in fact there is reason to believe that Erdoğan’s government does support the Syrian branch of al-Qaida (Jabhat al-Nusra) too, along with any number of other rebel groups that share its conservative Islamist ideology. The Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University has compiled a long list of evidence of Turkish support for Isis in Syria.
The PKK was responsible for rescuing thousands of Yazidi civilians threatened with genocide by Isis in 2014, and its sister organisation, the YPG, of protecting Christian communities in Syria as well
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“So why doesn’t it?”
because they’re all ragheads who worship the same child rapist prophet?
BAKSHEESH!
They have a plan.
Turkish Army standing by while ISIS raises there flag on the hill behind them...
Isis fighters being treated at Turkey Hospital....
kick them out of NATO, cut off the foreign aid and recognize Kurdistan as a nation
Maybe tErdogan is the anti-Christ?
No, just another self-important raghead like jug ears.
“Maybe tErdogan is the anti-Christ?”
I think his plan is to be the Caliph, when the time is right.
For some reason, the Turks HATE the Kurds. I’m sure it’s due to some ancient battle. I don’t know if the feeling is mutual. I’ve also heard that the Greeks HATE the Armenians. God knows why. Ask any Armenian.
You are absolutely corect.
Obamatollah needs to be shot and refugees sent to the Saudis.
The articles point is true - that Turkey is behind ISIS.
But it is only half of the truth - Saudi Arabia is behind the whole Global Jihad.
Because Erdogan is basically a fundamentalist Muzzie..
Because the corrupt Turks in power are making MILLIONS of dollars every week selling the ISIS oil, and trading weapons to them.
The Daesh are crossing the borders through Mexico right now, all they need is a lightly guarded National Guard armory or a decent sized gun shop and they will be able to continue their mission like in France.
> Maybe tErdogan is the anti-Christ?
That’s been suggested more than a few times...
There are many Kurds in eastern Turkey. They want eastern Turkey break away from the rest of Turkey, and become part of an independent Kurdish nation. And some of them are willing to use violence (against Turkey) to advance that aim.
So the Turks are hesitant to do anything that might help the Kurds. The U.S. just needs to convince Turkey that ISIS is a greater evil than the Kurds. Reagan would have had the stature to do such a thing. But Bush II and Obama...lightweights that the Turks have chosen to ignore.
You nailed it.
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