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9 Μαΐου 2017
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Trump Weighs Options: Support Kurdish Allies or Bow to Fair-Weather Friend Turkey
The NATO ally is an ally in name only
We’re not at war with Turkey, but Turkey’s leaders have issued statements that they will strike our troops fighting ISIS if we aren’t careful. They have also demanded President Donald Trump rescind all aid to our Kurdish allies in the battle against ISIS. Trump must decide whether to stick with our Kurdish allies or appease Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
It’s a little complicated figuring out how a NATO ally would threaten to bomb our troops, but here is how it all got started. After then-President Barack Obama famously mislabeled ISIS as “the JV team,” our government sent a thousand U.S. troops to stop these terrorists (including 400 U.S. Marines), who set up operations in Raqqa. Our anti-ISIS coalition is known as the Self-Defense Forces (SDF). The SDF is made up of Arab allies and Syrian Kurds known as the YPG and is supported by 66 countries.
It’s a little complicated figuring out how a NATO ally would threaten to bomb our troops, but here is how it all got started. After then-President Barack Obama famously mislabeled ISIS as “the JV team,” our government sent a thousand U.S. troops to stop these terrorists (including 400 U.S. Marines), who set up operations in Raqqa. Our anti-ISIS coalition is known as the Self-Defense Forces (SDF). The SDF is made up of Arab allies and Syrian Kurds known as the YPG and is supported by 66 countries.
Turkey hates the YPG because they accuse it of helping the PKK, a Kurdish resistance group blamed for terror attacks. After a Kurdish political party (the HDP) won enough votes in Turkey to deny President Erdogan a majority in June 2015, he launched attacks on the Kurds in his country in an attempt to win over nationalists before a new election a few months later. This war on the Kurds has been condemned by human rights groups for atrocities committed against them and against Turks at home.