Konflikten i Syrien

Airstrikes:

Swe:
Koalitionens bombningar i Södra och Västra Kurdistan Februari 15-21

Eng:
Coalition airstrikes in Southern and Western Kurdistan February 15-21

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After the February 18 suicide car bombing of a convoy of military buses in the capital that left 29 people dead, Turkish officials said the bomber was a Syrian Kurd working on behalf of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD).

Fearing the ambitions of the PYD and its People's Protection Units (YPG) militia, Ankara has been keen to play up the links between the Syrian Kurdish fighters and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which has waged a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state.
But the radical Turkey-based Kurdish group that claimed the attack said the bomber was a Turkish Kurd, an assertion supported by DNA tests.

"Whatever the judicial inquiry concludes over the identity of the bomber, it is clear that the bomber came from Rojava, the area of the PYD," Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told reporters, referring to Kurdish-controlled northern Syria.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had said the bomber was a Syrian Kurd named Salih Necar who had entered Turkey under the guise of being a refugee.

But the group which claimed the attack, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), said the bomber was a homegrown Turkish Kurd named Abdulbaki Somer with the nom de guerre Zinar Raperin.
"We are trying to work out if this person is a Turkish citizen or not. It appears not to be the person who was initially presented" as the bomber, Kurtulmus acknowledged.
"But this does not change at all the base fact that this was an attack committed in collaboration between the PKK and YPG," he said.
Later, the state-run Anatolia news agency said DNA testing had now confirmed that the bomber was indeed Abdulbaki Somer.

“We used to be the most prestigious country [in the region],” he said, while addressing party deputies in parliament on Feb. 23. “Now we have turned into a tribal state.”

“Statesmen are those who defend the benefits of their countries. Those who have made Turkey a part of the Middle East swamp cannot be statesmen. Those who support such a thing cannot either. Why are we involved in the domestic business of Syria?” he asked

The United States and Russia have agreed on a cease-fire in Syria, while continuing to fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and al-Nusra, and Turkey is even not mentioned in the deal, Kılıçdaroğlu said.

The government says that ISIL and the PKK are similar but it does not fight as hard against the jihadist group as against the PKK, Demirtaş claimed.

De geografiska, etniska, religiösa och politiska spänningar som släppts loss måste hanteras i någon form av ordnad process. Diktatorn Bashar al-Assad och hans regim måste ersättas med en demokratiskt vald regering som accepteras av alla olika grupper. De brott som begåtts måste prövas av en krigsförbrytartribunal liknande den i forna Jugoslavien. Fred förutsätter i längden rättvisa. Annars kommer nya konflikter och nya krig att följa. Men om vapenvilan verkligen träder i kraft på lördag så öppnas en liten dörr på glänt mot en framtid där den politiska makten inte nödvändigtvis avgörs på slagfältet.

De brott som begåtts måste prövas av en krigsförbrytartribunal liknande den i forna Jugoslavien.