Turkey Syria - News & Updates

[Eşbah]

Turkish Minister of Energy, Alparslan Bayraktar:

Our goal is to quickly provide electricity to parts of Syria that lack it and increase production capacity.

Turkey plans to establish an oil pipeline from Syria to Turkey and connect it to the Iraq-Turkey pipeline in the near future.

The reopening of the embassy in Damascus is one of the first steps to support Syria's infrastructure and energy sector.

Ankara is working on utilizing Syria's oil and natural gas resources to support reconstruction after 13 years of war.

Source: L24

 

[hyperman]

PKK Blew up a Car Bomb in front of a Masjid in Manbij on Friday.

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[Oublious]

Something i have wrote 15 years ago....

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[Eşbah]

Iranian writer Mehdi Hanalizade, during a TV program in Iran, stated:

'Iran and the U.S. could support the YPG/Kurds in Syria against Turkey on common ground.

The U.S. supports the YPG. Turkey perceives the YPG as a threat.

Iran may have a shared interest with the U.S. in ensuring the safety of Kurds in Syria.'

Iran has done this before!

During the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran cooperated with the U.S. Even though pro-Iranian loyalists deny this fact, former Iranian presidents have openly acknowledged it.

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This is public Iranian TV. They don't even hide their alliance with Communist terrorists.

Many Iranians are still unwilling to acknowledge that their government is working with the PKK. There is absolutely no doubt about the secret connection between the two.

Every Turk - Sunni or Alevi - must understand that Iran is not a trustworthy neighbour.

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This is public Iranian TV. They don't even hide their alliance with Communist terrorists.

Many Iranians are still unwilling to acknowledge that their government is working with the PKK. There is absolutely no doubt about the secret connection between the two.

Every Turk - Sunni or Alevi - must understand that Iran is not a trustworthy neighbour.

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Hence, put on your umbrella over your head even if it's a sunny day in Tehran. Deception thy name is the Iranian Molla regime. Trust a snake before these Mollas.....

 

[hyperman]

This is public Iranian TV. They don't even hide their alliance with Communist terrorists.

Many Iranians are still unwilling to acknowledge that their government is working with the PKK. There is absolutely no doubt about the secret connection between the two.

Every Turk - Sunni or Alevi - must understand that Iran is not a trustworthy neighbour.

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This guy is a moronic analyst, the dynamics of Iraq aren't anything like Syria. Where in Iraq there was a Shia govt in Baghdad. It makes zero sense for them to ally with the US against Turkey by propping up the PKK.

They are going to end up with Turkey retaliating and they are far more vulnerable considering their have Sunni Kurds in their own country and an insurgency involving the KDPI as well as Sunni Baloch Separatists along with Azerbaijanis in Iran. Very stupid idea to pick a fight with Turkey for essentially no gain and a whole lot of blowback. Iranians should think before they act, there are quite vulnerable on many different axioms and they can't afford to make more enemies or get people upset with them.

These guys would be really dumb helping one branch of the PKK, while another branch of the PKK(PJAK) literally conducts an insurgency inside Iran.

 

[Eşbah]

Remember when SDF+Assad and ISIS worked together against FSA?

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[hyperman]

It seems there are negotiations between Damascus and the SDF to dissolve, there may not be an offensive. Hakan Fidan had mentioned that they will allow first for Damascus to lead the way to resolve the matter, i.e. there to be negotiations and if its resolved that way, and if not, Turkey may take action.

Lets see how this plays out, most of the news is good. but the only thing thats of question is them saying the SDF will be integrated into the military, which im not sure how that will be, and have reservations about, but lets see if the SDF even accepts that offer.

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[hyperman]

In other good news, the Talks between Ocalan seem to have been fruitful, he has looked at the proposal from Bahceli and the AK PArty as positive, he seems willing to dissolve the PKK permanently but he seems to be placing some conditions, lets see how that element plays out as well.

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In other good news, the Talks between Ocalan seem to have been fruitful, he has looked at the proposal from Bahceli and the AK PArty as positive, he seems willing to dissolve the PKK permanently but he seems to be placing some conditions, lets see how that element plays out as well.

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The PKK leadership doesn't listen to his calls. I remain highly skeptical.

 

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Propaganda, deceit, lies.

 

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Propaganda, deceit, lies.

The Russians are irrelevant at this point in Syria. Much of their assets they have either transferred to Libya or back to Moscow. It remains in doubt whether they even stay in Syria long term, they might close both bases and move to Libya in Banghazi instead.

Putin made some vague statements that eluded to the possibility of them leaving, he said if they remain in Syria, there has to be some sort of benefit that they provide Syria and as of yet that remains undefined. As well as today Lavrov said that the Syrian govt has to right to decide to keep or terminate any previous arrangements. So from the looks of it, they themselves are weighing leaving and possibly going to Libya.

 

[hyperman]

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The PKK leadership doesn't listen to his calls. I remain highly skeptical.

I do as well.. but lets see how this plays out. The important thing is that there are 3 less players in Syria now, Russia, Iran and Assad have left the game. Lets see how this plays out. The PKK itself is under pressure to negotiate more so than they have been in the past. Remember this whole dissolving thing and peace process with the PKK was the AK Party initiative and it was happening, and it was the Syrian civil war that changed the dynamics.

Before the war, they were essentially finished as a movement with their popularity dying off b/c of reforms made by the AK Party managed to get many Kurds to abandon them and there was nowhere to go as in Iraq they have beef with the KDP and even went to war there against them, no chance of the KDP allowing them space there, Syria allowed them space to creating their PKKistan they called "Rojava", but if thats dissolved and with an even more friendly Turkish Govt in Damascus that will be adamant that the PKK can't be there, unlike their frenemy relationship with Assad who was using them as a pawn against Turkey, and never fully tried to get rid of them even allowed Ocalan cover there for all those years as a tool against Turkey.

if Syria is resolved and they don't have any space inside Syria, losing that strategic depth, they are really going to be pressed, b/c the KDP is not going to allow them to function out of Erbil/ Northern KRG, so their options are going to be either move their people to the Yezidi areas in Northern Iraq around Sinjar, or move their operations to Sulaymaniyah in the Southern KRG allied with the PUK.