A Turkish President Is Threatening To Launch A
The Ground Offensive Against Kurds In
Northern Syria Ankara Has Hit Hundreds
Of Kurdish Targets In Airstrikes Across
Southern Syria And Iraq As Since The
Weekend Russia And The US, Have Urged
Restraint To Prevent The Escalation Of This
Of The Situation And Turkey's Threat
Follows A Deadly Bombing And It Is Down
Ball This Morning Which Ankara Excuse Me
An Istanbul This Month Which Ankara
Blames On Kurdish Militant's Foreign
Turkish Missiles Are Once Again Raining
Down In Kurdish Areas, Turkey Has Been
Waging A War With Kurdish Militants For
Decades
The Kurds Inhabit A Mountainous Region
Straddling Five Countries, Including Iraq
And Syria, The Largest Number Live In
Turkey Where Their Fight For Self-rule
Has Always Met A Brutal Response From
Ankara Turkey Is Blaming Kurdish Forces
In Iraq And Syria For A Bombing In
Istanbul Earlier This Month, Which Killed
Six People
The Kurds Have Denied Involvement But
Turkey Has Responded With Attacks In
Iraq And Chiefly Northern Syria
Here Turkey Or Pro-Turkish Fighters
Already Control Some Border Areas Shown
Here In Blue
President Richard Wants To
Expand That Area And Is Targeting Land
Controlled By Kurdish Forces And Their
Allies Showed Here In Yellow
The Kurds Killed In Turkish Airstrikes
Here Are Allies Of Us And Were
Instrumental In Driving Back Militants
From The Islamic State Group In Syria
But Turkey Sees No Difference Between
The Kurdish Fighters Here And The
Outlawed PKK Terrorist Group
The Kurds For Their Part Are Fighting
Back As They've Always Done, Firing
Rockets Into Turkish-controlled Areas In
Northern Syria, in The United States And
Russia Is Urging Turkey To Show
Restraint, But So Far Those Calls Are
Going Unheeded
We Can Pick This Up With Islamic Who's
An Expert On Turkish Politics At The
Center For Applied Turkey Studies
Welcome To This Article, Turkey Says It's
Neutralized What It Says A Kurdish
Terrorists, What Does That Look Like On
The Ground,
Well, Turkey Is Conducting Its Elderly
As mentioned In The News, Several Airstrikes
Se Its Advanced Drone Technology In
This Struggle Has Been Targeting
Key Military Personnel Of RPG, The
Kurdish Kerala Movement There For Quite
For Some Years But Recently It Has Kind Of
Accelerated Those Attacks And Is In A
Way Pushing The RPG, Militants Further
Away From Its Partnership And Yesterday
President Was Talking About
Launching A Ground Operation Of What He
Called The Most Convenient Time How
Seriously Should That Threat Be Taken
Very Seriously, I Mean It Has Actually Uh
For The Last Six Months, Has
Kept On Talking About A New Ground
Operation But He is Turkish, Ground
An Operation Like The Four Previous Turkish
Ground Operations Are Contingent Upon
Russian Or American Approval Because
These Countries Control Their Space
In Syria Uh So Far Throughout The Last
Six Months, Both Russia And The United States
Uh Prevented Add-on From This Ground
Offensive, But Things Are Changing Due To
The Russian Aggression In Ukraine This
Increases Turkey's Just Strategic Value
US, And In The Eyes
Of Russians, So These, Gives Aren't Going A
Big Leverage To Use And He Is Using That
So I Am Expecting That Eventually He
Would Get The Green Light For A Ground
Operation As Well, Maybe Not Today Not
Next Month But Within A Couple Of Months
At The Latest, Because Turkey Has Also
Elections Coming And There Will Be A
The Ground Operation Is Most Probably So If
That Happens What Is It What Sort Of
Scale Is That Likely To Happen At And
How Is That Likely To Affect
Turkey's Relations With Us And
Russia
It Depends On Where That Attack Happens
Turkey Has Declared Three Areas
Which Are More Strategically Important
Particularly For The Russians Because If
Turkey Occupies Those Regions It Also
Starts To Threaten Aleppo, A Major
Syrian City, So I'm Expecting That If
An Attack Goes On These Two Countries
Russians Would Be More Aggressively
Opposing It
But If It Attacks Is, The Attack Is Directed
To Kane, It Is Easier For Turk To Get A
Green Light From The Russians In
In Contrast To The American, Urban, Is
More Important Than The Other Two
Regions But My Reading Are That Americans
Are Becoming Less And Less Committed To
Prevent The Turkish Ground Operation So
If That Operation Is Limited With Kane,
Region I Think There Would Be Little
Repercussions From The Russians Or
America Americans Or Iranians As Well
Because Iran Is Also On The Ground
Another Major Regional Country, So If
It Targets Koan, I'm Not Expecting A
Big Regional And International Backlash
To That Operation, Okay That That's
Very Clear Thank You So Much For
Outlining That For Us
From The Center For Applied Turkey
Studies
Thank You For Having Me
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