... significant long-term gain if the Turkish operation is successfully conducted
On August 4, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
declared in a speech
during an opening ceremony that Turkey will launch a military operation in Syria’s terrorist PKK/YPG-occupied eastern Euphrates region. After the official declaration of the upcoming operation, there occurred the question of “how will it affect the bilateral relations between Russia and Turkey?” There will be no negative repercussion of the ...
... pursuing several objectives; primary among them is clearing the Afrin region of the PYD armed groups who pose a direct threat to Turkey’s national security due to their connection to the Turkey-based terrorist organization Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK, Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê).
Despite its efforts to explain to the international community the underlying motives behind the deployment of troops on Syrian soil, the Turkish government has not received messages of solidarity, either from ...
... Ankara and Kurdish extremists had been voluntarily engaged in a several-years-long truce and the so-called
problem solving process
. Turkish intelligence had been in secret negotiations in Oslo with representatives of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), whose leader Abdullah Öcalan had been praised by the pro-government politicians as the leader of the Kurds although the terrorists represent only a fraction of the Kurdish people. In those days, everyone could see the advisers of President ...
