Will Turkey help the Syrian Kurds? Yuri Nabiyev Vestnik Kavkaza Fighting between militants of the terrorist organization Islamic State and local Kurds is continuing in the north of Syria, despite the fact that last week the Turkish parliament approved the possibility of a cross-border military operation to prevent the terrorists from seizing the border town of Kobani. The president of the Russian Society for Solidarity and Cooperation with the Kurdish people, Yuri Nabiyev, believes that this is not the first time that the Turkish parliament has decided on a cross-border operation: "Almost every year the Turkish parliament takes a decision on the border with Iraq to fight the infamous Kurdistan Workers' Party. But, fortunately, this operation has not yet been carried out. Although the bombing of Iraqi Kurdistan occurs periodically."Yuri Nabiyev noted that the Syrian-Turkish border "is many kilometers long, it is about 800 km long. Interestingly, it passes mostly along the Baghdad railway line, which was built by the Germans. The Baghdad Railway passes through territories inhabited by Kurds. Even though people use the terms "Turkish Kurds" and "Syrian Kurds", in fact, of course, they are the same people, the same territory area with relatives, kinship tribes living on both sides of the border. The Kurds don't divide themselves into Turkish and Syrian Kurds. They call them in Kurdish: "the Kurds behind the railway line", "in front of the railway line", "to the north of the railway line" and "to the south of the railway line." Speaking about the complexity of relations between the Kurds, Turks and Syrians, the president of the Society for Solidarity with the Kurdish People noted that the few hundred thousand Kurds in Syria until recently did not have any citizenship. "One of the reasons they were not given citizenship is because the Syrian authorities considered them to be Turkish nationals. Turkey, of course, renounced them. If we look at the Kurdistan Workers' Party, already mentioned by me, which has been fighting for more than 30 years, you'll see that it has a lot of Syrian Kurdish youth. When the issue of a cross-border operation was raised, of course, the Turkish authorities encountered the Kurds, because if the creation of a buffer zone or safety zone is announced, then of course the Kurdish population will be involved," Yuri Nabiyev said. An expert on Turkey, Togrul Ismail, told Vestnik Kavkaza that Turkey will not interfere in the internal affairs of Syria, even if a great number of pro-Kurdish rallies take place in support of a Turkish military operation against ISIS in northern Syria.
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Fighting between militants of the terrorist organization Islamic State and local Kurds is continuing in the north of Syria, despite the fact that last week the Turkish parliament approved the possibility of a cross-border military operation to prevent the terrorists from seizing the border town of Kobani.
The president of the Russian Society for Solidarity and Cooperation with the Kurdish people, Yuri Nabiyev, believes that this is not the first time that the Turkish parliament has decided on a cross-border operation: "Almost every year the Turkish parliament takes a decision on the border with Iraq to fight the infamous Kurdistan Workers' Party. But, fortunately, this operation has not yet been carried out. Although the bombing of Iraqi Kurdistan occurs periodically."
Yuri Nabiyev noted that the Syrian-Turkish border "is many kilometers long, it is about 800 km long. Interestingly, it passes mostly along the Baghdad railway line, which was built by the Germans. The Baghdad Railway passes through territories inhabited by Kurds. Even though people use the terms "Turkish Kurds" and "Syrian Kurds", in fact, of course, they are the same people, the same territory area with relatives, kinship tribes living on both sides of the border. The Kurds don't divide themselves into Turkish and Syrian Kurds. They call them in Kurdish: "the Kurds behind the railway line", "in front of the railway line", "to the north of the railway line" and "to the south of the railway line."
Speaking about the complexity of relations between the Kurds, Turks and Syrians, the president of the Society for Solidarity with the Kurdish People noted that the few hundred thousand Kurds in Syria until recently did not have any citizenship. "One of the reasons they were not given citizenship is because the Syrian authorities considered them to be Turkish nationals. Turkey, of course, renounced them. If we look at the Kurdistan Workers' Party, already mentioned by me, which has been fighting for more than 30 years, you'll see that it has a lot of Syrian Kurdish youth. When the issue of a cross-border operation was raised, of course, the Turkish authorities encountered the Kurds, because if the creation of a buffer zone or safety zone is announced, then of course the Kurdish population will be involved," Yuri Nabiyev said.
An expert on Turkey, Togrul Ismail, told Vestnik Kavkaza that Turkey will not interfere in the internal affairs of Syria, even if a great number of pro-Kurdish rallies take place in support of a Turkish military operation against ISIS in northern Syria.
