Erdogan’s perilous Project- Buffer Zone inside Syria will not Work; must be rejected by both the US, and its NATO Allies

October 26, 2014 By administrator

Omar Sindi, Washington — Special to Ekurd.net

The misadventures’ vision by Turkish Authorities could get spiraled out of control of multi-dimensional wars among many regional states’ actors for the regional regimes, currently are in precarious political survivors status, mired Middle East power struggle. Already Iranian regime has raised its objection, Syrian Alawites regime in Damascus along with their proxy Lebanon’s Hezbollah, will consider buffer zone is as an invasion; it should come with no surprise, if Shia’s lead government in Baghdad vehemently opposite the Turkish miscalculations, and Turkish government should not under estimate the ability of over 4 million Kurds who historically living in this land. President Erdogan should think twice, for this illusive vision of buffer zone inside (Rojava) Syrian Kurdistan.

If the proposed project on Kurdish land inside Syria of buffer zone wins support by the Western governments particularly the US; the Kurds will consider this buffer zone quid pro quo of nothing less than the betrayal of the Treaty of Lausanne, Switzerland that materialized on July 1924,where Kurdish people’s right revoked as nation‘s states to exist

Erdogan, whose discernment has darkened his fixation worry of seeing another multi – political parties- Kurds autonomous region created; certainly, Turkey has benefited from autonomous Kurds region in Southern Kurdistan-Iraq cross border trading commodities.

President Erdogan should have no “fear but fear itself”; most likely, he (Mr. Erdogan) wants to reinstitute the domination of Sunnah Arabs on the Kurdish land, just like the racist – Arabization policy in this Area by then Sunnah led Syrian government in early 1950’s through early 1960’s the top architect of this ruction project was Mohammed Talib Hilal then the minister of Post & Telegraph,www.Ekurd.net

the implementation of Arab domination in this area “ethnic cleansing”; however afterward the Baathist regime in Damascus didn’t soothe the darker mood any better. Turkish policy makers out to reassess furthermore unrevealed perilous project, this buffer zone inside Syria, will not be like the Cypress’ invasion in 1974, protecting Turkish minority in that Island.

Over four million Syrian Kurds will consider this buffer zone nothing less than the suppression, and invasion, they will resist like what they are fighting these days in Kobani area. Additionally, international reactions, most likely will be negative feedback to the buffer zone project inside Syria on the Kurdish territory. Turkish Media out let, should tune down its nationalist rhetoric the proposed project of realpolitik -buffer zone inside Syria, most likely will not benefit Turkey, it will destabilize region to further – uncharted territory of multi –dimensional wars. All the people of this region do not deserve reckless vision; just like Zia Goklap, and his associates trapped Ottoman Empire into unwinnable World War I, for the sake of wrong ambitious of Pan-Turanism.

It appears that the Turkish government more worries on the Kurdish issues then the nihilism terrorist states in Iraq/Syria ISIS/ISIL which indiscriminately killing anyone who disagree their brand of Islamism. The catalogs of the plan have still remained ill-defined and sketchy, but reports argue Turkey wants to obligate of a buffer zone several miles into Syria, mainly the Kurdish areas, in addition of backed up by a no fly zone; including disarming the Kurdish fighting forces in Syria, who are daily confronting terroristic state ISIS/ISIL. People contemplating creating a buffer zone inside Syria should think twice, because it will not be a “cake walk”.
Benjamin Franklin: “In those wretched Countries where a man cannot call tongue his own, he can scarcely call anything his own.”

Omar Sindi – Washington, United States, a senior writer, analyst, and columnist for Ekurd.net

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ISIL, Kurds continue fierce fighting in Syria’s Kobani

October 25, 2014 By administrator

Fierce clashes have resumed between ISIL Takfiri militants and Kurdish fighters in Syria’s northern town of Kobani, which has been under siege by ISIL for over a month.

Reports coming out of the town on Saturday said ISIL had made a new attempt to capture Kobani.

The militants attacked the Kurdish forces with mortar and heavy machinegun fire before dawn.

This came after Kurdish fighters had gained control of a strategic hill overlooking the town on Friday.

Meanwhile, Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region has decided to send reinforcement troops to Kobani next week to aid Kurds.

Kobani and its surroundings have been under attack since mid-September, with the ISIL militants capturing dozens of nearby Kurdish villages.

The ISIL advance in the region has forced tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds to flee into Turkey, which is a stone’s throw from Kobani.

Turkey continues to block any delivery of military, medical or humanitarian assistance into Kobani where the ISIL terrorists are feared to be aiming at massive bloodletting.

Analysts say Ankara, having already won the US green light, plans to let the terrorists seize the Kurdish town of Kobani before sending tanks and troops to fight them in a bid to capture and possibly annex the Syrian territory.

Meanwhile, Press TV has learned that Washington has moved its base from Jordan to Turkey to train radical extremists who are fighting the Syrian government.

In a separate development, Iraqi security forces took control of most of the town of Jurf al-Sakhar near the capital, Baghdad.

Turkey, New pro-Kurdish party established in Diyarbakır

October 19, 2014 By administrator

A new pro-Kurdish party was announced in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Sunday.

The party is known by the initials of its Kurdish name, Partiya Azadiya Kurdistan (Kurdistan Freedom Party). Kurdish politician Mustafa Özçelik was elected chairman of PAK, which pursues the establishment of a Kurdish state as a goal.

“Just like Halabja and Anfal laid the foundation of Iraqi Kurdistan, the Shingal and Kobani massacres will historically be the beginning of the union of Kurds and Kurdistan, and of [Kurdistan] becoming a state,” Özçelik was quoted as saying by the private Cihan news agency during a gathering at a Diyarbakır hotel, the hall of which was draped with Kurdish flags.

The establishment of PAK, he said, is the culmination of the work of a platform which was established in Diyarbakır a year ago for the purpose of founding a “Kurdistani party.”

“Today, the state accepts the existence of Kurds. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan even uttered the word Kurdistan, even though this was on the occasion of a visit to Turkey by [Iraqi Kurdish leader] Mr. Massoud Barzani,” Özçelik said. “As an acknowledgement of this fact, some changes are being made concerning language, education and cultural rights. These are certainly important. It is in the interests of all of us that the policies of denial have receded, albeit to a certain extent.”

Turkey would oppose US arms transfers to Kurds

October 19, 2014 By administrator

By ELENA BECATOROS and SUZAN FRASER

SURUC, Turkey (AP) — Turkey would not agree to any U.S. arms transfers to Kurdish fighters who are battling Islamic militants in Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying Sunday, as the extremist group fired more mortar rounds near the Syrian-Turkish border.

Turkey views the main Syrian Kurdish group, the PYD — and its military wing which is fighting the Islamic State militants — as an extension of the PKK, which has waged a 30-year insurgency in Turkey and is designated a terrorist group by the United States and NATO.

The United States has said recently that it has engaged in intelligence sharing with Kurdish fighters and officials have not ruled out future arms transfers to the Kurdish fighters.

“The PYD is for us, equal to the PKK. It is a terror organization,” Erdogan told a group of reporters on his return from a visit to Afghanistan.

“It would be wrong for the United States — with whom we are friends and allies in NATO — to expect us to say ‘yes’ to such a support to a terrorist organization,” Erdogan said. His comments were reported by the state-run Anadolu agency on Sunday.

Turkey’s opposition to arms transfers to the Kurdish forces is hampering the U.S.-led coalitions’ efforts to fight the extremists and further complicating relations between Turkey and the United States. The countries are involved in negotiations about Ankara’s role with the U.S. and NATO allies fighting the Islamic State group, which is attempting to capture the strategic town Kobani on the Syrian-Turkish border.

Turkey is demanded that the coalition widen its campaign against the militants by providing greater aid to Syrian rebels, who are battling both the IS and President Bashar Assad’s forces. Turkey has so far provided sanctuary to an estimated 200,000 Syrians fleeing Kobani, and recently agreed to train and equip moderate Syrian rebel fighters trying to remove Assad from power.

Fighting between the Islamic militants and the Kurdish fighters defending Kobani continued on Sunday. Mortar strikes hit the town, sending plumes of smoke into the air. Three mortars also fell on the Turkish side of the border, landing in an open field where they caused no injuries. On Saturday and Sunday, IS appeared to be targeting the border crossing area, potentially in a bid to hamper Kobani’s last link to the outside world.

In an attempt to stave off the advance, a US-led coalition has been carrying out airstrikes on IS positions in and near the town, as well as in other parts of Syria, particularly in the oil-rich eastern province of Deir el-Zour, as well as in Iraq. Several airstrikes hit Kobani on Saturday evening.

The flow of migrants into Turkey has intensified since IS intensified its push to take Kobani and cut access for Kurdish fighters to other areas of Syria they control.

The United Nations’ humanitarian chief, Valerie Amos, visited one of the refugee camps set up in a school in the Turkish border town of Suruc.

While 900,000 people have been registered as refugees in Turkey since the Syrian crisis began four years ago, “the reality is that the numbers are nearer to 1.6 million,” Amos said.

“Of course countries have concerns about security, and about the impact on their economies and on essential services like health and education. But it’s also a crisis with a huge human impact,” she said. “The international community has to continue to do all it can to find a political solution to this crisis.”

Ankara Mayor Makes Bigoted Remarks Against Armenians, Kurds

October 17, 2014 By administrator

ANKARA—Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek made provocative remarks concerning Kurds, Armenians and atheists on his Twitter page on Tuesday, reports Today’s Zaman.

The mayor shared three consecutive tweets about Kurds, religion, and Armenians. He first shared a video from the Cihan news agency containing old footage of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members entertaining other PKK members with a comedy skit poking fun at salat (Islamic ritualistic prayer). Alongside the video, the mayor commented: “It’s these types of PKK [members] that don’t want a peace process or an end to war. They are the enemies of Islam. Here is proof.”

He continued in another tweet, “Peace to the Kurds in the east who are putting their lives on the line for the nation and solidarity and for Islam.” In his next tweet, Gökçek continued, “But there are those posing as Kurds but are actually Armenian atheists… (By the way, I absolve our Armenian brothers and sisters that are citizens of their nation.)” The mayor later deleted two of the controversial tweets (keeping the one with the video), though Twitter users were quick to respond with comments.

What the mayor is referring to are “hidden” Armenians who were often forcefully Islamified and Kurdified among Kurds in the Dersim mountains to avoid continued persecution during the Genocide of Armenians in 1915. There are Armenians among Alevi and Turkish communities as well.

Hayko Bağdat, an Armenian columnist for the Taraf daily, tweeted back to the mayor, “Which category do I fall under, boss?” Later, Today’s Zaman spoke over the phone with Bağdat, asking him about his views on the matter, and he explained: “This is plain racism. It’s prejudice on many levels. It’s not just against one demographic of people but against several: Armenians, Kurds, atheists. It is hate speech, and if this [Turkey] were a civil country then he [Gökçek] would be removed from his position for these remarks. But these types of remarks have become commonplace with [Justice and Development Party] AK Party politicians; we see it in the president.”

In August, a similar incident involving racist comments came from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan just two weeks before the presidential elections. During a television broadcast on Star TV and NTV, President Erdoğan said: “Let all Turks in Turkey say they are Turks and all Kurds say they are Kurds. What is wrong with that? You wouldn’t believe the things they have said about me. They have said I am Georgian … they have said even uglier things — they have called me Armenian, but I am Turkish.” Criticisms were raised about Erdoğan’s assertion that being Armenian is “ugly.”

The mayor’s Twitter account continuously draws public attention, as Gökçek is known to tweet on many topics regardless of their relevance to his political responsibilities. He has over 2 million followers.

Erdogan: Kurdistan On My Mind

October 17, 2014 By administrator

BY SETO BOYADJIAN, ESQ.

Kurdistan has always been on Erdogan’s mind. In fact, it has been on the minds of every single Turkish leader since the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923.

Kurdistan constitutes one of two nightmares that constantly visit Turkish leaders and policy makers – the other being the Armenian Cause. In this context, Turkey is caught in a virtual hellish world of its own making where each one of these nightmares causes equal amount of anguish to Turkish rulers.

Unfortunately for Turkey, the question has never been how to get out of these nightmares like a mature and modern country guided by the concept of justice in its fairest and most decent meaning. Rather, the question for Turkey has been how to stifle the just voices of the Kurdish and Armenian people whose very existence is causing these nightmares.

In case of the Kurdish people, Turkey has been waging an outright war against Kurds within Turkey – by sending in the Turkish army and air force to kill them; by engaging the Turkish government to deny their basic human rights and cultural identity; and by treating them as “mountain Turks” in an effort to erase their ethnic heritage. On the other side of the Turkish border, the Kurds in Syria and Iraq have been subjected to Turkish disdain and persecution in all subtle means available to the successive Turkish governments.

In case of the Armenian people, Turkey has been waging a different kind of war against Armenians of Armenia and the Diaspora – by implementing a state policy of denial of the Armenian Genocide; by continued occupation of Western Armenia; by forcing its “gag rule” on powerful countries such as the United States to keep silent on issues pertaining Genocide and Armenian rights; by blockading the Republic of Armenia in an utter violation of international law; by denying the people of Nagorno Karabakh their lawful right to self-determination; and by supporting Azerbaijan in its policy of aggression against Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh.

Now, Turkey is exploiting the IS created conditions to the maximum to advance its policy of hostility toward the Kurds in the area.

The ongoing onslaughts by the Islamic State (IS) against Kurdish people and Kurdish townships in Syria and Iraq are providing Turkey with additional ways and means to carry on its fight against the Kurdish nightmare. A closer look at the situation on ground in Syria and Iraq reveals that Turkey is the main culprit behind the arming and training of IS elements and its insurgent surrogates. In legal parlance, Turkey is both accessory before and after the fact to the tragic fate of townships such as Kobani.

There is a specific objective in Turkish complicity with IS and its affiliated bands. As Middle East expert Michael Lüders put it in his televised analysis a few days ago, “Turkey is secretly cooperating with the Islamic State,” because Turkey wants “the Kurds to suffer a major defeat.” To weaken and to demoralize the Kurds in northern Syria and Iraq, Turkey is covertly aiding and abetting these terrorist elements.

Turkey’s designs in collaborating with IS aims to achieve other objectives beyond Kurdish defeat. According to Michael Lüders, Turkey hopes that “the conflict will evolve into a larger one,” so that the “international community will wage war against Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian President,” as well.

But, be that as it may, at this point in time the Turkish aim is to weaken the Kurdish people and deal them a heavy blow by their defeat at the hands of IS. Threatened by the advancing IS forces, the Kurds of northern Syria and Iraq have now become easy preys to Turkish objectives.

However, as recent developments indicate, this Turkish effort against the Kurdish people has ceased being restricted to the Syrian and Iraqi regions. As of the beginning of this week, Turkish government has expanded its effort to Turkey proper, this time against its own citizens of Kurdish origin.

Last Monday, Turkish jets bombed Kurdish areas in the southeast of Turkey. Turkish Air Force jets hit Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in Daglica village in the southeast. Turkish helicopters attacked PKK positions near Geyiksuyu village in eastern Turkey.

These attacks against PKK and other Kurdish positions come in the wake of Turkish government’s refusal to allow Turkish Kurds to join their brethren in their struggle against IS forces besieging the Syrian township of Kobani.

Turkey isn’t even batting an eye over the tragic plight of Kurds in Kobani. It is sitting tight and watching the maiming and killing of Kurds at the hands of IS militants. When Kurds in Turkey want to do something to assist their brothers and sisters across the border in Syria, Turkey is not only prohibiting them; it is also sending in its jets and helicopters against them.

It should be, but this is not ironic. This is pure Turkish policy against its century-old Kurdish nightmare. It is no different from Turkish blockade of Armenia, after decimating and deporting the Armenian people from their ancestral homeland of Western Armenia.

Yet, despite the ongoing hostile Turkish policy against the Kurdish people, Kurdistan will endure and continue to remain on Erdogan’s mind. Just as the Armenian people and their cause, they will continue to be on Erdogan’s mind.

Kurdistan and Armenian Cause are stubborn nightmares. They will not go away. Turkey has to learn to live with them … or it has to start changing itself on the side of justice.

PKK members ‘throw smoke bomb’ at Turkish Culture Ministry office in Rome

October 16, 2014 By administrator

Some of the protesters hurled red paint at the building and wrote ‘murderers’ on its walls during the demonstration in Rome. DHA Photo

Members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have staged an attack with smoke bombs on the Turkish Culture Ministry attaché’s office in Rome, Culture Minister Ömer Çelik stated via his Twitter account on Oct. 16.

“A group of 20 PKK members attacked the Culture Ministry office during a demonstration in front of the building. They threw smoke bombs at our office. We condemn this attack,” Çelik said. Some of the protesters hurled red paint at the building and wrote “murderers” on its walls.

The attack comes amid unprecedented tension in southeastern Turkey, particularly since the start of the Kurdish peace process in 2013. Some 37 protesters have died in clashes following widespread demonstrations across the country against the advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane.

The Turkish government has been criticized for its perceived lack of action against ISIL, particularly by the Kurdish-leftist bloc the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).

Pro-Kobane demonstrations have also been held across Europe, but no other Turkish foreign mission has been targeted.

Kurds Hoping To Fight ISIS In Kobani Are Trapped By Turkish Suspicions

October 16, 2014 By administrator

by Peter Kenyon NPR

Syrian defenders of the mainly Kurdish border town of Kobani say an increase in coalition airstrikes — and better coordination with the air support — have helped them hold off the more heavily armed fighters from the so-called Islamic State.

Each day, cars and vans carrying Kobani residents, Turkish Kurds and journalists climb over the rock-strewn paths on the edge of plowed fields, avoiding Turkish military roadblocks to reach the hills overlooking the Syrian border and the town of Kobani.

With only a few units from the Free Syrian Army joining Kobani’s Kurdish defenders on the ground, Syrian Kurds say Turkey should open a corridor and let fighters and weapons in. Instead, they say, Turkish authorities are detaining young Kurdish men on suspicion of terrorism.

Mustafa Ali has a relative among the fighters still in Kobani. The 38-year-old Ali came to Turkey about a week ago, after being stuck for three days at the border while ISIS shells landed not far away. He doesn’t think Turkey will overcome its suspicion of all Kurds and intervene to save Kobani — unless it gets a push from outside.

“If the international community forces Turkey to support Kobani, it will,” Ali says. “But without pressure from the Americans and the Europeans they won’t, because Turkey thinks both sides in this fight are terrorists.”

Turkish Suspicion

Adding to the pain of watching their town be destroyed a little more each day is the clear knowledge that those fleeing Kobani aren’t welcome in Turkey. Ali says that Kurdish men, especially younger ones, routinely are stopped at the border, and that many then are taken by Turkish authorities to detention centers, where they’re not charged with anything but are investigated on suspicion of terrorism.

“I know some of the guys who have been detained. They are political guys from Kobani, members of various Kurdish political parties, and the Turks caught them and held them,” Ali says. “I was told there were as many as 200 of them, but some chose to go back to Syria.”

In one of the newest refugee camps for Kobani residents to spring up, in the border town of Suruc, Turkish hosts are digging trenches between the neat rows of family-sized gray tents to lay electric cables. Kobani families appreciate the shelter they’ve been given, but 34-year-old Mohammed Sheikh al-Muslim says the way the Turks are treating the detained Kurdish men is unjust.

“They gave us three choices — Jazeera, Qameshli or Afrin,” he says, meaning they could pick one of three Kurdish enclaves in northern Syria to which they would be returned.

Yasser says it’s because the Turks think they’re with the People’s Protection Units, the Syrian Kurds linked to Turkey’s own Kurdish militants, known as the PKK. He says he has nothing to do with any of that, but the Turks don’t believe him.

Davutoglu is doing everythings to Divide Kurds, by saying (PYD ‘torturing’ Kobani Kurds)

October 14, 2014 By administrator

The master of false flag operation Davutoglu is again trying to divide the Kurds. picture by gagrulenet

October 14, 2014

ISTANBUL,— Turkey on Tuesday accused the biggest Kurdish political party in Syrian Kurdistan of “torturing” Syrian Kurds who fled to Turkey when Islamic State jihadists launched their assault on the border town of Kobani.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the refugees had fled to Turkey “to escape pressure” from the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which is affiliated with Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

“Our brothers came here to escape pressure from PYD. They put a great deal of pressure on those in Kobani who don’t share their opinion,” Davutoglu told lawmakers from his Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP).

“Where were you when the PYD was oppressing some of the Kurds?” he asked the international community.

Davutoglu give further details on the torture allegations. Before the IS advance, the PYD enjoyed control over much of Kurdish-populated northern Syria.

“It’s not about Kobani. It’s about piling pressure on Turkey through Kobani,” Davutoglu said.

“But Turkey has no appetite for adventures just because some people wanted unless the international community does its part to find an integrated solution (for Kobani),” Davutoglu said.

Turkey block KRG aid to Kobani instate Turkey launches airstrikes on Kurds PKK

October 14, 2014 By administrator

Military aid sent from the Kurdish part of Iraq, to Kurds fighting the “Islamic State” (IS) in Kobani, Syria, has failed to arrive. Turkey has also attacked Kurdish PKK militants for the first time in two years. Reported dw.com

A “symbolic” amount of military aid sent from Iraq’s Kurdish region to Syrian Kurds is stuck in northeastern Syria as Turkey refuses to open an aid corridor, Syrian Kurdish official Alan Othman said on Tuesday.

The aid was sent from the Kurdish region in Iraq with the intention of helping Kurdish fighters in Kobani fight against the “Islamic State” (IS) terrorist group who are advancing into the heart of the city on the Turkish border.

“It is a symbolic shipment that has remained in the Jazeera canton,” Othman said, using the Kurdish name for northeastern Syria.

Hamid Darbandi, Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) official, responsible for Syrian Kurdish affairs in Iraq, said, “We helped them in roughly every arena. We sent them aid, including military.”

Turkish airstrikes

A Turkish media report also said on Tuesday that Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets had been attacked by Turkish war planes in the Hakkari province in southeastern Turkey late on Sunday. This was the first significant air operation against the Kurdish militants since the launch of a peace protest in 2012.

Turkish newspaper website Hurriyet reported that the airstrikes were launched in response to suspected PKK shelling of a military outpost in the area.

A Turkish military statement said on Tuesday the armed forces had responded “in the strongest way” to shelling by the rebels, without saying whether airstrikes were launched.

Lack of help

The alleged airstrikes came amid criticism from Turkey’s Kurdish population that Ankara is failing to help Syrian Kurds in Kobani. On Monday, a Turkish government official also denied reports that Ankara had given permission to Washington to use its airbases to launch airstrikes on IS.

At least 35 people were killed in riots last week from Turkey’s 15-million-strong Kurrdish minority due to Ankara’s refusal to help defend Kobani from the oncoming IS assault.

The jailed leader of PKK has also threatened to call off talks to end a decades-old insurgency in Turkey if no progress is made by Wednesday.

IS advances in Iraq

Meanwhile in Iraq, IS are continuing to advance toward control of Iraq’s Anbar province. On Monday, local media and witnesses reported that jihadist militants from the self-styled “Islamic State” group seized an army base near the Iraqi town of Hit.

The capture of the military base marks a further step in the advance of the militants into the western Sunni-dominated province of Anbar, which extends from the western edge of the capital, Baghdad, to the Syrian border.

Impending massacre

Efforts by the US-led coalition carrying out airstrikes in Iraq have so far failed to drive back IS forces. During an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Monday, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond insisted that Iraqi security forces would have to do the “heavy work on the ground.”

The IS terrorist group has committed widespread atrocities during its offensive, including attacking civilians, conducting mass executions, beheadings and enslaving women.

Many now fear that if the IS succeeds in cutting off the border crossing from Syria into Turkey it could result in a massacre of those residents, many of them elderly, who have not yet fled.

ksb/ng (Reuters, AP, AFP, dpa)