Ankara does not conceal its ties with the new Islamist rulers of Damascus, nor its aspiration to lead the “war against Israel” and “liberate” Jerusalem from the Zionist entity, the State of Israel. The Turkish pretext is always the presence of PKK militants, but this belies the state’s broader campaign of anti-Kurdish repression, which extends even to countries such as Japan and Kazakhstan, in opposing both those governments’ recognition of Kurdish as a literary language in their institutions. The only way to stop Turkey in Syria or Iraq is to help the Kurds build their agency, a Kurdish nation-state composed of their historical lands in both countries, with access to the Mediterranean via Latakia.
Author: BY MEM HUSEDIN
Published at: 2025-05-10 21:38:47
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