Posted on 09/27/2017 5:40:44 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Democratic Northern Syria Federation has issued a written statement on the remarks of Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Mouallem who stated that “Syrian Government is open to negotiations with the Kurds over their demands for an autonomy in northern Syria.”
The statement by Democratic Northern Syria Federation recalled that Geneva talks have all failed despite the Syrian civil war leaving 6 years behind, during which blood of millions of Syrians was shed and millions of others were displaced.
Remarking that the Northern Syria forces have possessed a project for a solution since the eruption of Syrian crisis, the statement said this situation was ignored though, as result of which all the talks held without the builders of this project have failed.
The statement continued;
“We evaluate the Foreign Minister’s statement on readiness for negotiations with Kurds as a belated but positive step as we believe that the only way to a solution for Syrian crisis is negotiations.
We as Democratic Northern Syria Federation are ready for negotiations.”
I hope this works. Trust is not high. We shall see if this is legit.
Kurds and Assad have been through this before. But never with the US as supporter. (there are backroom supporters too)
US and Russia can prevent regional secondary explosion. Will they?
I don’t think the Turks will stand for an Independent Kurdish State on their Southern Border.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3589487/posts?page=6#6
Erdogon can huff and puff all he wants. He will overstep and will be smacked down in a big way the instant he attacks them. The NATO label will be peeled off and he will be on an island faster than his goons can attack civilians on American soil.
They have said that. Consider the consequences it they attack.
If Assad and SDF (YPG/YPJ++) reach an agreement, it will not be an independent state.
At same time Barzani’s referendum has Turkey “disturbed”.
There are a lot of arms in the region, light and heavy. Lots of trained soldiers that Turkey has never faced. Turkey’s military was gutted with faux Coup.
Air power and tanks can be neutralized with the right smart weapons.
Sudden mass insurrection? Is possible.
And yes the US and Russia are both on the ground in Syria.
We shall soon see where this is going.
Boom? pssssh? letting off pressure?
Turkey will be very pissed.
What influence does Israel have in all this?
What about Iran? They are in there too.
Yep. They are. And they still fear US.
And they should. Trump is NOT Obama.
unsaid, but significant.
Erdogan the Islamist is always angry.
Per Wiki:
Kurds in Turkey are the largest ethnic minority in the country. According to various estimates, they compose between 15% and 20% of the population of Turkey.[4][5][6] Unlike the Turkish people, the Kurds speak an Indo-European language. There are Kurds living in various provinces of Turkey, but they are primarily concentrated in the east and southeast of the country, within the region viewed by Kurds as Northern Kurdistan.
Massacres, such as the Dersim rebellion and the Zilan massacre, have periodically occurred against the Kurds since the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. The Turkish government categorized Kurds as “Mountain Turks” until 1991,[7][8][9] and the words “Kurds”, “Kurdistan”, or “Kurdish” were officially banned by the Turkish government.[10] Following the military coup of 1980, the Kurdish language was officially prohibited in public and private life.[11] Many people who spoke, published, or sang in Kurdish were arrested and imprisoned.[12] In Turkey, it is illegal to use Kurdish as a language of instruction in both public and private schools. The Kurdish language is only allowed as a subject in some schools.[13]
Since the 1980s, Kurdish movements have included both peaceful political activities for basic civil rights for Kurds in Turkey as well as armed rebellion and guerrilla warfare, including military attacks aimed mainly at Turkish military bases, demanding first a separate Kurdish state and later self-determination for the Kurds.[14] According to a Turkish opinion poll, 59% of self-identified Kurds in Turkey think that Kurds in Turkey do not seek a separate state (while 71.3% of self-identified Turks think they do).[15]
During the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, food embargoes were placed on Kurdish villages and towns.[16][17] There were many instances of Kurds being forcibly expelled from their villages by Turkish security forces.[18] Many villages were reportedly set on fire or destroyed.[18][19] Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, political parties that represented Kurdish interests were banned.[10] In 2013, a ceasefire effectively ended the violence until June 2015, when hostilities renewed between the PKK and the Turkish government over Turkey’s involvement in the Syrian Civil War. Violence was widely reported against ordinary Kurdish citizens and the headquarters and branches of the pro-Kurdish rights Peoples’ Democratic Party were attacked by mobs.
And, Per Wiki:
The number of Kurds living in Southwest Asia is estimated at close to 30 million, with another one or two million living in diaspora.
Kurds comprise anywhere from 18% to 20% of the population in Turkey,[1] possibly as high as 25%;[39] 15 to 20% in Iraq;[1] 10% in Iran;[1] and 9% in Syria.[1][40] Kurds form regional majorities in all four of these countries, viz. in Turkish Kurdistan, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iranian Kurdistan and Syrian Kurdistan. The Kurds are the fourth largest ethnic group in West Asia after the Arabs, Persians, and Turks.
The total number of Kurds in 1991 was placed at 22.5 million, with 48% of this number living in Turkey, 18% in Iraq, 24% in Iran, and 4% in Syria.[41]
Recent emigration accounts for a population of close to 1.5 million in Western countries, about half of them in Germany.
Persecution of Kurds within the region is much older than modern Turkey.
The Ottoman Empire also pacticed massacres and genocides on many minorities. Armenians, Kurds, Alevi, Greek, Ezidi’s and others.
Turkey from beginning of modern Turkey claimed falsely to be a secular state. But reality is they persecute all except “Turks” and those who support them.
There has never been freedom of Speech and Press in the history of the region, going back to the beginning of the Ottoman empire.
There are no journalists left in Turkey, only Propagandists. All the journalists have been arrested, killed, or are in foreign countries.
I found your post very thought provoking and started another thread just on Bible Prophesy relating to the Medes. (i.e. Kurds)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3589612/posts
I found your post very thought provoking and started another thread just on Bible Prophesy relating to the Medes. (i.e. Kurds)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3589612/posts
Sorry for the duplicate post... I only hit it once.... Not sure how it happened.
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