Opinion:
By Wally Sarkeesian
First thing first 95% all terrorist in Middle East, North Africa, Belkin’s, Caucuses, are Sunni Muslims accept Hezbollah is Shia Muslim backed by Iran against Israel
Here is what is going on, Israel want to use Kurds to Create Kurdish corridor from northern Iraq and Syria to Mediterranean, on the other hand Turkey want Islamic State to annex northern Syria and Iraq to create path through Iran to connect to Turkic nations like Turkmenistan “neo-ottoman Project”
That is the reason why the war is going on for 4 years and no end. because whenever Syrian government make progress against Islamic state Israel started bombing Syria on the other hand when the Kurds make progress on pushing Islamic State out of the area Turkey start bombing the Kurds this is the vicious cycle and the reality situation in middle-east. It’s Syrian and Iraqi citizens whom are paying the price of Erdogan and Netanyahu Chess game moreover most of the Islamic state Fighters are from Sunni Muslim Turks from Turkic nations like Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kosovo, and so on.
Turks and Israelis will eventually drug both USA and Russia into major showdown just like Turkey did on October 1962 Cuban missiles crisis where Turkey falsely persuade US to put missile in Turkey against USSR Soviet Union and that lead to USSR in Turn put missile in US back yard in Cuba consequently Cuba become the victim of Turkish conspiracy thousand of miles away now Turkey again is playing the same game turning Russia and US against each other maintaining Turkish occupation of Anatolia which in 1923 they change the name to Turkey, of course this time with help of Israel they will eventually confronting USA and Russia into major showdown time will tell.
Recently we have seen Russian military buildup in Syrian that prompted urgently Israel Netanyahu unplanned travel to Moscow meeting Putin followed by Turkish Erdogan travel to Moscow to meet Putin, both are worried that Putin will spoil their plan and both are changing there standing toward Assad by saying Assad should be part of the solution.
Recall Mosul invasion by Islamic state and the fake Turkish hostages taking well that was Erdogan first move and successfully topple Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki replaced with Turkish approved Haider al-Abadi as PM. both Baghdad and Iraqi Kurdistan capitulated & handed over all oil pipe line to go through Turkey moreover, all new oil construction project from south of Iraq went to Turkish contractors too. as you might be aware of 20 Turkish worker have been kidnapped in south of Iraq Basra those are the Turkish contractor doing the jobs which previously done by Iraqi people consequently Iraqis are fleeing & becoming refugees while the Turks moving in taking over Iraqi construction business. to add insult to injury Turkey is asking for safe zone that is in reality the Annexation of Syria. as far as the Kurd situation is currently Erdogan have sort of divided the Kurd into two camp were Iraqi Kurdistan president Barzani is more less in Erdogan pocket, however the Kurd in Turkey and Syria are totally oppose to Turkey’s domination and occupation of there land.
Here is some quote from Pan-Islamist Davatuglu’s Turkish PM book for you to understand Turkey’s road map:
He crystallized these ideas in the book ‘Strategic Depth,’ in 2001, a year before the Justice and Development Party, or A.K.P., came to power. In the book, he defined Turkey as a nation that does not study history, but writes it — a nation that is not at the periphery of the West, but at the center of Islamic civilization … Mr. Davutoglu saw himself as a grand theorist at the helm of his country as it navigated what he called the ‘river of history.’ He and his country were not mere pawns in world politics, but the players who moved the pieces.
According to Mr. Davutoglu, the nation states established after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire are artificial creations and Turkey must now carve out its own Lebensraum — a phrase he uses unapologetically. Doing so would bring about the cultural and economic integration of the Islamic world, which Turkey would eventually lead. Turkey must either establish economic hegemony over the Caucasus, the Balkans and the Middle East, or remain a conflict-riven nation-state that risks falling apart.
As foreign minister, Mr. Davutoglu fervently believed that the Arab Spring had finally provided Turkey with a historic opportunity to put these ideas into practice. He predicted that the overthrown dictatorships would be replaced with Islamic regimes, thus creating a regional ‘Muslim Brotherhood belt’ under Turkey’s leadership.
History keep repeating itself.