Timeline for Iran rebukes Turkey on Syria incursion - Why?
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| Feb 7, 2018 at 20:30 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPolitics/status/961336461747523585 | ||
| Feb 7, 2018 at 13:07 | answer | added | user5751924 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 6, 2018 at 11:23 | comment | added | armatita | I'm not entirely sure about this. But its very likely that Turkey is not strictly following the Astana agreements. Iran, Russia and Turkey are, in theory, guarantor states for the conflict in Syria. All agreed to make a de-escalation effort. Yet Turkey has its own agenda. It seems to have every intention of driving Kurdish influence away from its borders (which currently support Turkish Kurds innitiatives), forcing the Kurds to move south or east (Iran included). | |
| Feb 6, 2018 at 8:49 | comment | added | janh | Exactly: the Kurds may/will be a concern at some point in the future, but they are not today. Turkey-backed rebels (turkmens, islamists, FSA) are a concern for Syria today. Turkey has been toying with invading Syria for years (remember the leaks about false flag operations giving them cause), but they'd have to go through the kurdish areas (or have the Kurds in their back), and are likely hesitant to ignite kurdish responses in Turkey. | |
| Feb 6, 2018 at 8:47 | comment | added | SJuan76 |
Source for both having (unspoken) ambitions to become the head of a new Islamic caliphate? That is like saying that the USA wants to annex Canada, or that France wants to restore the Roman Empire....
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| Feb 6, 2018 at 8:42 | comment | added | Jamin Grey | @janh AFAIK there isn't any active Iranian action against the Kurds - it seems a basic status quo has established where if the Kurds keep their heads down, they get some autonomy, but it seems obvious that their end-game is independence. e.g. they do want to ultimately control some of Syria - and some of Iraq, Iran, and Turkey (only the parts they already occupy). What Turkish invasion are they making slower? Turkey isn't invading anybody, as far as I know, except insofar as to attack the Kurds. Turkey isn't conquering Syria. The Kurds also aren't in the way of a Turkish invasion of Syria. | |
| Feb 6, 2018 at 8:31 | comment | added | janh | Do you have any sources regarding how active Syria and Iran are in the fight against the Kurds? It's my impression that the Kurds are not trying to conquer all of Syria, are fighting the islamist rebels in their proximity and, by accident, make the Turkish invasion slower & more costly - why would Syria (and therefore Iran) want them gone? | |
| Feb 6, 2018 at 8:20 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | Turkey and Iran aren't exactly friends so I would not expect them to always agree with each other. However, I do not know much more to be of help here. | |
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