En del hävdar att Assad helt enkelt har gjort en överenskommelse om de kurdiska områdena i Syrien:
Citat:
Over to Syria's north, Turkey is also pointing a finger at both Damascus and its patron, Tehran, for a bombing near a police station in the city of Gaziantep on Monday which killed nine and wounded over 60 [1]. A convoluted intrigue is emerging around the Kurdish issue between Syrians, Turks, Iraqis, and Iranians (incidentally the four regional countries with significant Kurdish populations). A recent discussion on the blog of the prominent Syria expert at the University of Oklahoma, Joshua Landis, captures the complexities of this issue.
The Syrian regime has long been a patron of the PKK (the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which has waged a violent low-intensity campaign against Turkey for decades). Recently, it has let the PYD, a Kurdish organization that is closely related to the PKK, take over a number of Syrian cities in the north. As Landis put it, "Assad's Kurdish strategy appears to be to help the PKK to take control of the Kurdish regions of Syria in the North East. His aim is to hurt both the Free Syrian Army and Turkey, which are leading the opposition against him. In general, his strategy is to weaken the Sunni Arabs of Syria." [2]
Iran is helping Assad; Turkey, on the other hand, has been trying to leverage its relationship with Iraq's Kurds and to set up a parallel Kurdish organization in Syria, the Kurdish National Council (KNC), in order to rally the anti-Assad elements among the Kurds and to neutralize the PKK in the country. It has not been very successful: the KNC remains fairly disorganized and marginalized, much like the Syrian opposition as a whole.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NH25Ak03.html
Over to Syria's north, Turkey is also pointing a finger at both Damascus and its patron, Tehran, for a bombing near a police station in the city of Gaziantep on Monday which killed nine and wounded over 60 [1]. A convoluted intrigue is emerging around the Kurdish issue between Syrians, Turks, Iraqis, and Iranians (incidentally the four regional countries with significant Kurdish populations). A recent discussion on the blog of the prominent Syria expert at the University of Oklahoma, Joshua Landis, captures the complexities of this issue.
The Syrian regime has long been a patron of the PKK (the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which has waged a violent low-intensity campaign against Turkey for decades). Recently, it has let the PYD, a Kurdish organization that is closely related to the PKK, take over a number of Syrian cities in the north. As Landis put it, "Assad's Kurdish strategy appears to be to help the PKK to take control of the Kurdish regions of Syria in the North East. His aim is to hurt both the Free Syrian Army and Turkey, which are leading the opposition against him. In general, his strategy is to weaken the Sunni Arabs of Syria." [2]
Iran is helping Assad; Turkey, on the other hand, has been trying to leverage its relationship with Iraq's Kurds and to set up a parallel Kurdish organization in Syria, the Kurdish National Council (KNC), in order to rally the anti-Assad elements among the Kurds and to neutralize the PKK in the country. It has not been very successful: the KNC remains fairly disorganized and marginalized, much like the Syrian opposition as a whole.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NH25Ak03.html
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