Reports are emerging that Turkey may be preparing for another full-scale invasion of Syria to take on Kurdish forces. Of course, we've been here before. These reports appear from time to time. But this feels more serious, given the fall of Assad. So, do you think Ankara will do it? Or will its Western partners be able to stop it? And will anyone come to the aid of the Kurds if Turkey does go ahead? Let me know your thoughts below.
@@Robespierre-lIyou put it so completely and eloquently. As a Romanian, we lived for centuries between the Austro-Hungarian , Russian and Ottoman Empires. I wonder how we survived 😅
@@orhanyilmaz2758 I’ve been through this too many times. When Turks start calling my country “The United Kingdom” when speaking Turkish, I will consider using Türkiye in English.
No way. Turkey under Erdogan regime, it is less possible to attack kurd-leaded ex-terrorist coalition (SDF). It would mean firing to the USA. Turkey has less chance to dare it with tangling fragile economy and the weakest ever social coherence inside country. It would not bring good consequences for Erdogan's reign. Erdogan, primarly and predominantly considers his personal politcal future than anything else.We all know that CFR backed Erdogan, as vice-president of Greater (Israel) Middle East project, his own words, is their guy. He wont do anything that may deeply change the flow of the plan. Kurdish state on 4 countries (Iraq(done), Syria (almost), Iran (pending), Turkey (pending) ) is must of this plan. On the other hand, Turkey has the most kurdish populated country in the world it would have impacts inside Turkey as well. Israel needs proxy and cheap mercenaries that's why only Israel definitely will support ex-terrorist entity (SDF) a tout risques et perils. Mazlum Abdi - sister brandname of PKK - is wrong guy, it seems other kurds would be more welcomed for turkish public opinion. In any case i hope Turkey would not hit the kurds - even ex-terrorist in Syria. It would be in favor of Israel. Making ennemies is easy but handling (pastoring) them is tough, so better make less ennemies.
I am an Italian living in Turkey. I settled in Turkey in 1998. One of my female students died after a PKK attack. She was a teacher. I met many Kurds and Turks in Turkey. The main mistake in this video of yours is to think of PKK and Kurds as if they were the same.
sad for your lost and also thanks for sharing because im turk they just say im racist when i say pkk is terorist haha i guess everyone has their interest and will lie
@@karwanramadan4669 what about the civilians PKK killed, like the Turkish teacher friend from this Italian guy? Why don't talk about this, why always claim that only you're the victims? You want war, you get war. Stop to hide behind lies.
You need to learn the definition of " what is called KURD and what is called "terrorist" and the meaning of the INVASION " as a professor. Every kurdish person is not a terrorist and most importantantly " every terrorist is not Kurdish. We saw many european and american citizen as terrorist.
No, I can, perfectly well. The problem is that it is too easy for many Turks to separate the PKK from the aspirations of many Kurds for greater rights, and even a state. They just say that the PKK are extremists and the rest of the Kurds are happy. It’s an easy way to avoid the issue. I’ve seen it in other contexts.
@@JamesKerLindsay This response from you proves that you are biased and not suitable to be a professional academic or journalist. Pathetic in my opinion...
@@JamesKerLindsay sizin topraklarınızda mutlu olabilirler isterseniz ülkeniz bir bölümünü Pkk lılara verebilirsiniz bizim öyle bir niyetimiz yok Türkiye de yaşayan Kürtler Türkiye için canını verir çünkü bu ülke bizim ülkemiz pkk lıların veya onlarla iş tutanların değil.
It shows nothing except that he has a realistic grasp on the situation. Take one look at these comments, and it's full of Turks and bots with four numbers after their name spouting fake stories about how Kurds have no desire for Independence, when anyone who has spoken to Kurds from Turkey knows that it's a long-standing aspiration for them.
and that being said, within kurds there are several different ethnic groups on which they are not necessarily get along, there zazas, kurmanjis, yazidis, and zorttotos
It is also very interesting that the PKK/YPG, which is on the terrorist list of many countries around the world, is described as innocent fighters. This is what it takes to be a hypocrite.
@@omerguney1230 i am from Syrian Kurdish family who have to immigrate to Turkey cause of usa backed SDF YPG pressures on us. Sdf occupied our land and kicked out Kurds who dont want to support them .Usa backed SDF /YPG trying to destroy unity of syria for oil .i want to live together with my Arap Turkmen brothers in an United syria. Usa backed SDF YPG also a threat for Kurds too . Thanks to Ottomans 🇹🇷 spirit for hosting us thanks to Turkey for hosting us
@@tahsintaha2893 but we live together with other etnics not Alone . Usa backed SDF YPG trying to destroy unity of syria for usa and israel s benefits i am from syrian kurdish family and i support unity of syria and i want to live together with my Arap Turkmen brothers together as we dıd for decades.i dont want USA BACKED SDF YPG pressure on us
Turkish held areas seem to be returning to normality - schools and hospitals, including infrastructure. Turkey has 4 million Syrian refugees! She wants them return back to their homeland. Unfortunately the Kurds in Syria,with the help of USA, Britain, Germany and some smaller members members, captured nearly 45% of Syria, ethnically cleansing the Arabs and Turkmen from the areas they occupied. Kurds of Syria comprise only 10% of the Syrian population. To create propaganda with the use of the Kurds as the victims, looks like a turning eye to the truth. The so called ISIS was created by the West with a view to interfere in Syrian affairs! Now tell that to the public!
işid in babası obama annesi hilary dir. TRUMP. Suriye yi işgal eden işid, birden yok oluyor ve y p g o bolgelerde sihir gibi ortaya çıkıyor. işid kılık değiştirmiş p k k lı bile olabilir. sonra eski kıysfete dön, suriyeyi parçala.
@@naweed0 What propaganda? The west is furious it can't use the civil war for its own gain. They are furious that Turkey ended a civil war that they wanted to continue.
Although CIA reports say that YPG is affiliated with the PKK, you do not call it a terrorist organization. Even if the USA changes its name, this does not change the fact that they are a terrorist organization. US General Thomas says the following about the YPG terrorist organization. Turks say that YPG and PKK are the same and say, 'I have a terrorist enemy.' 'Why are you PARTNERING with terrorists, how do you do this as an ally?' he said. "So we changed the name of YPG," he says. Despite all these facts, you still say KURDISH, NO, IT IS NOT KURDISH, IT IS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.
Kürtler doğu Anadolunun ve ortadoğunun otokton halkıdır binlerce yıldır burdalar siz Türkler orta Asyadan gelip onların bulunduğu topraklara el koydunuz şimdi onlar mı terörist oluyor yoksa sizmi
No country has done more to the Syrian people than Turkey. Saving the lives of 4 ml Syrians from certain death by the regime and has been taken care of them for the last 14 years costing the Turkish taxpayers over 40 bn $ yet you don't hear that in the Western media. and Turkey is not fighting the Kurds but fighting a designated Kurdish terrorist organization pkk that happens to be the Kurdish majority.
No they are fighting against the kurds. Turkey is destroying the infrastructure( schools, hospitals) of the kurds. Furthermore many kurdis civlist have been killed. The government (rojava) there is defending their civilians. therefore is a fight against the kurds
@@denizdeniz4755where is the Kurdish language banned?? In Kurdish areas are always street and government signs in Kurdish, even Football Teams who plays in official Turkish leagues have Kurdish names (Google AMEDSPOR). Amed ist the Kurdish name of the city Diyarbakır. So, what's banned now? Why always claim to be a victim, this is so ridiculous.
The worst kind of journalism is the one in which you package lies with partial facts and narrate them as the truth. From the terminology you use, and the words you chose, one can easily see your intention. You are biased beyond denial, and you have a clear hidden motive in your narrative. Also, it seems that either you don't know much about the history and ethnic composition of the region, and the blood ties between Turkiye and Syria; or you intentionally omit them from your video as they don't serve your agenda. Whatever the reason is, people should avoid making comments about topics in which they have very limited information. That is an ethical responsibility for any virtuous person, and more so for a person with an academic title.
@@Sassannid He mentions Kurds like they are a monolith, all wants independence and all want to achieve it via armed resistance. PKK is supported by a small fraction of people. Also most of the killings done in the name of independence by PKK are targeted towards Kurdish people. In reality, PKK is a criminal syndicate like Mexican cartels, who uses terrorism and propaganda to gain influence to handful of people. It is also a proper tool for intelligence agencies. US is using for controlling Syrian oil reserves.
You know what you just said? Nothing. Just any assumption (with well-sounded words) without any explanation. Are you sure that you know what science is?
You did not say that there is no organization called ISIS and that the US uses it to protect its interests there. You did not say how many teachers, women and children the PKK killed and kidnapped. You did not say the joy of the Syrians and that they were free for the first time. You did not say the Sednaya slaughterhouse. You did not say that the oil fields of the Syrian people were exploited by the PKK together with the US.
Kurds and Turks have always walked together. On good days and bad days. In war and at wedding. No one can tear us apart from this brotherhood. Impossible.
Seeing a lot of comments that obviously come from people who think it's important to highlight the difference of kurds and PKK. You think the kurds who don't want their own state aren't brainwashed?
I can't believe this man is a Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He speaks without knowing anything about geography, demographics, or historical processes. If this man is so ignorant, his students won't be able to find Turkey on a map.
Did you know --Elected president, Turgut Özal, who served as the 8th President of Turkey from 1989 to 1993 was kurdish --Leader of main opposition party, Kemal Kılıcdaroglu, who served as party's leader from 2010 to 2023 was also kurdish --Currently, kurdish people in Türkiye are being represented in the parliament by a 57-member party dedicated to address the problems of kurdish population. This 57 number does not include numerous kurdish representatives serving their constituents as members of other political parties. As in the example of Kemal Kılıcdaroğlu, kurdish members of parliament even served as leaders of other parties --other than the kurdish party. --AKP alone, the ruling party, is estimated to contain more kurdish representatives than the kurdish party itself. So, stop portraying Türkiye as an enemy of kurds. Kurdish people enjoy more freedom and higher standards of living in Turkiye than in any independent state they are likely to create. Who wants an independent kurdistan? A few hooligans who are hoping to become dictators of the country they hope to create, so that they can suck the blood out of their people. Do you think, if created, independent kurdistan will be like Switzerland? No, it will be more like Brunei or Afghanistan. THAT İS THE SAD TRUTH.
So was Ismet Inonu, the second president in turkey. The foreign minister of turkey right now is Kurdish. The president of the parliament is Kurdish. Turkey also has close relations with the Kurds in north Iraq.
@@adamelghalmi9771 Inonu has his highs. He was an important General in the war of independence. The word Kemalist was a word used by the English to describe the people who fought on Mustafa Kemals side. For me being a Kemalist is a positive but it was abused by Alparslan Turkes and Kenan Evren who we found out later where projects of Gladyo. Anyway, without kemalists there is no Turkey. Inonu was the Diplomat who has determined Turkeys borders. While countries in Europe had millions of people dieing in World War 2, Inonu kept turkey out of it. And maybe most important he made Turkey a multi party democracy.
No more it’s over , Turks. Wins, ❤Türkiye 🇹🇷 is most important country, it’s like this scale with a enormous weight in the middle which can sway either way and the side it slides wins the geopolitical game
@@007supertime Exactly, I am involved in many different business deals many of them has to do with football. For my boss and me Turkey is an important strategic partner. I believe that the Turkish and Iranian governments have some squabble but with there being a new progressive President in Iran. I feel Iran and Turkey can help me keeping Sweden and Europe more generally safe.
@@LunaticTheCat You honestly believe Trump will be president. Putin has Trump in his pocket and Putin is a good friend of my boss Herr Dahlmeier. Ask Hufvudstadsbladet about the press releases that I have sent them on Herr Dahlmeier's behalf.
@@ruzgar_adam I know thinking is hard for you but the Kurds have been an identifiable people for a long time. They live on territories that can be invaded. The territory on which most of them live was carved up between four states following the dissolution of the Ottoman empire.
Are you a history expert? Who's fault is it that they don't have their own land? The kurds them self it's their own fault that they couldn't estabilish their own land. It's not because you lived there centuries ago that you can claim that land, that's not how it works. If you are so concerned give a piece of your own land.
Turkey's position has always remained the same regarding the YPG/PKK. It faces a significant threat from them, and I think it's highly naive to assume that the YPG fought ISIS for the US. They took advantage of the situation to advance their aspirations towards carving Syria into a Kurdistan. This would create far greater issues and would only be a declaration of war for the Turks. I think the West is playing naive when it could never itself tolerate such a threat along its own borders.
Daiş ile sınır komşusu olmaya razısınız ama bak yemin ederim ilerde Suriye Afganistana dönecek ve siz o zaman keşke Kürtler olsaydı en azından bize saldırmazlardı diyeceksiniz tabi bizi yenebilirseniz ki bu mümkün değil evlat
Or perhaps the west is actually playing dumb when they actually know the truht. It's actually pretty common for the west to use devide et impera and neo-collonialism strategy. Even current middle east conflict right now is actually happened as a result of western segregation and mapping to make each arabs country feel their borders is threatened.
The irony of Kurds being terrorized and racially abused throughout history by the Turks and chemically bombed by Saddam but if the Kurds want to create a homeland for themselves to have some peace and security for once from the crazies around them, that's somehow a "declaration of war" for the the Turks
Syria need territorial unity, Kurdish is doing what's opposite to that. Great move by Turkiye is helping the new Syrian government to consolidate national unity.
Turkey is the 2nd largest army of NATO and as its military, no one in this region wants to face this, including Iran or Israel. For example, if you noticed during the revolution, the war ended almost before it started when Turkey said that if you intervene in Russia and Iran, I will intervene in you. The most that America can do here is political pressure and economic pressure. embargo, but since this issue is a vital situation for Turkey, nothing will change. In short, the PKK is over and America and Europe see it. The problem is how to declare it.
The problem is Turkey doesn't have many real friends or allies. It's a NATO member and I doubt it has much influence except a little in Syria today and a few African countries.
@@european-one You know nothing about Turkish patriotism. Turks have lost so many casualties during the Kurdish Separatist Insurgency over the past 40 years. For them, economic inflation is not a primary concern, as they believe it will eventually decrease and come to an end in the long term. However, when you have a separatist terrorist state on your border, you only have one chance to clear the border of all of them.
Why dont kurds just leave arab majority areas and try to negotiate deal where they would not project danger to turkey and distance themselves from pkk?
How will you do that when Turkey has a problem with Kurds existing in any official way. Also, why this focus on not a single Arab or other can be in Kurdish controlled area, but dozens of millions of Kurds can be stateless in Turk, Arab, Iranian controlled lands ? Why is it so inconceivable to you that Arabs could be in Kurdistan, but never the reverse ?
This is so biased video. Becuase you talk like these territory only belongs to the Kurds. Actually Kurds are minority most of the places they invaded during the civil war. If your biased point of wiev correct there must be at least 20 more new independent country just in EU borders. If you like these seperatists so much, why don't you share your own country?
Kurds are the largest ethnic without a state. We have our land, language, and culture. So, let’s stand for the liberation of Kurdish nation and the minorities from imperialist.
Only 10 percent of syrian population is kurdish. ,where as they posses 45 percent of syria. Even among the biggest part of the population is ypg members having close ties with pkk terrorist group that has killed 45 tousend innocent people by launcing attacks to turkish territory.
@ clearly you are not going to understand that Kurds deserve a country of their own. I shouldn’t discuss further. You are siding with the oppressor rather than the oppressed. The powerful is almost always the oppressor, leaving limited option for the powerless.
@@lrg069 clearly you also don’t recognize that Kurds have the right to self govern, given the fact that Kurds lived under oppression of Nation states in the region. Syria now is a proxi state govern by foreign countries.
I think they will. The opportunity is too good for them not to. The Kurds control many areas that are arab majority that Turkey could switch leadership on. Additionally, turkey has a good relationship with kurdish autonomous region in Iraq so I believe they will try to switch the leadership of Syrian kurdish areas.
@@TheSwedishHistorian if they were just against PKK and not Kurds when they got the okay to go to Efrin by their masters in the west, they would have not settled Arbs and Turkmen in Kurdish areas.
@@salihsalih3658 They are against separatist Kurds. The Kurds who disregard sovereign countries and their sovereign territories because their western owners promised them land. No country wants a separatist organization in their land and anyone who has that mentality is going to get dealt with in the manner they understand regardless of where they are. You think you can annex a part of Sweden and think the Swedish will be okay with it? They get upset with Muslims immigrating, they would lose their minds over something like this.
@@salihsalih3658 Northern Syria has many towns and cities with majority turkmen population, when Rojava with the USA gained controlled you forced them to migrate. Kurdistan can exist in northern Iraq we have good relationships with them since they are not with the PKK but against them
@@adidoki Kurds unlike the Turkish and Syrian governments don’t discriminate against others. We love our neighbors and we have lived together for thousands of years. Look at any Kurdish entity and you will see all languages are respected. Looked at Rojava emblem it even has Turkish in it for the Turkmens. Look I truly believe Ocelan is a MIT agent, however I also believe that those Kurdish fighters are risking their lives for the Kurdish cause. If Turks and Arabs has same respect for Kurds as we do for them we would all be in peace. We can have a Middle East Union. Which would benefit all and the world. But we keep killing each other instead. Let’s all be partners in this land and not masters.
@@crazycowboy213 I despise any and every government who takes violent action against any segment of their country that wants to exercise greater control over themselves. The only government I loathe more is governments that enter other countries to try and tell the people living there how to live
There are lots of important points overlooked and observed partially, yet leading to very unfair and unjust conclusion. First and foremost; Kurds are not represented by ypg/pyd/pkk/sdf. There are thousands of Kurds fled from ypg/pkk/sdf's brutal and oppressive regime. On the map the so called divided/invaded Kurdish state has never been existed, yes in that area lots of Kurds lived and still living with Arabs, Turkmens and so on. Also you forgot to mention that Turkey is the only country that fought against isis on the battle ground and succeeded(Operation Euphrates Shield) liberating Azaz and Al Bab region. Turkey's main objective is to have a united, peaceful Syria, where all the Syrians from different ethnicity and religion can live peacefully. At the moment the petrol, water and fertile farmlands are invaded by the pyd/ypg/pkk, these areas are vital for the self sufficient Syria. The Syrian people will not let sdf/pyd/ypg/pkk snatch these lands from themselves either with or without the help of Turkey.
Prof. James I think you often phrase things in deliberately misleading ways, especially when you mention Turkey striking "the kurds." Turkey does not strike or intend to strike, kurdish persons who are unaffiliated with the PKK or YPG. If this was the case, several million Kurds living peacefully in Southeastern Turkey would be dead. I believe more specificity on your part is necessary.
I believe it is rich that you speak condescendingly to someone who is way smarter than you. You shoot bombs, bombs explode, the bomb is unable to verify if the person is "unaffiliated with the PKK or YPG" and really you would say anyone you kill is PKK.
Full lies. He is only stating the Washington policies in the territory. Not telling child soldiers of YPG whic is not a represant of Kurds rather a terrorist group for military interest of Israel and US. Same scenario played bu Us more than a century. I am not even telling the population engineeering dine by Ypg. Mandotory imigration of Turks and Arabs. US should stay in its’ soil if its not seeking military conflict with Turkey. Results would be tremendous for both. Enough is enough
We kurds see sdf as our only hope to self rule in Syria, which is the most basic right we can have. Besides, the similarities between pkk and sdf are only philosophical. Kurds in Syria have no plan to harm turkey. Turkey has been dealing with the Kurdish issue within its borders for a 100 years.
@ Turkey does not have problem with kurds besides there are thousands of marriages. This ethnical division is superficially created. This was a project of Britian and accomplished within percentages. Pkk and ypg is cultivated by Europeans later on US. If you listen Israeli governors you will understand that foundation of this teror orginisation serves to harm to Turkey and other neighbours. Do you want all Arabs Kurds and Turks to be Palestenians? Are you out of your mind?
In this matter, I hate the misleading ethnicity maps. At the beginning of this video as well, such a map painted a huge swath of Turkey in yellow, giving the impression that that area is nothing but Kurds. In reality, that is the area where a significant fraction (not necessarily the majority) is Kurdish, but the remainder (majority in many cities of the painted area) are Turks. For almost a thousand years Turks and Kurds coexisted in this area, intermingling the populations. The percentage threshold of such maps vary, that's why you can find different maps in different sources. (Just pointing out a common factual error without taking sides)
@@JamesKerLindsay You do realise that Treaty of Sevres was made by the west for exploiting the region? Thank you for your honest intentions of exploitng the middle east. It's good that the west and the eu still dream of exploiting the middle east after 100 years..
Kurds are an Iranian people, and Romans did not allow them to the West of Zagros mountains. Kurdistan was a region established by Seljuks as an adminstrative area, for non-Persians, to the east Zagros mountains. Various Kurdish tribes were given refuge by Ottomans after Safavis adopted Shia creed.
May all minorities in Syria, including Christians, Kurds, Druze, etc. be safe... 🙏 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 May all Syrians be happy, healthy & (should be) wealthy (free from poverty)... 🙏 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 🇸🇾
one million Sunni Arabs were massacred in the past 13 yrs alone by the minority Alawites that were backed by the other minorities.. The minorities should be grateful that the Arab majority is not going Rwanda on them after what they have done in the past 50 yrs
@@MoReal2 there is no Single united Arab majority, if was Alawites Wouldn't be in power. Arab in Syria are several groups with different roots and ideology
Clearly you give an extremely inaccurate information. Majority of the members of PYD in Syria are came from outside. PYD is practically and principally extension of PKK which is recognized terrorist group. Turkey has no problem with Kurds but fights against PKK in Turkey, in Iraq as well as in Syria.
Syria is home to many ethnic and religiously diverse people. No geographical area is homogeneous. Dividing Syria into many states or administrations based on ethnic and religious grounds will lead to endless wars. Is this war environment deliberately desired to continue? Who will benefit from it? The Middle East has suffered greatly from ethnic and religious micro-nationalisms. Instead, wouldn’t it be a better approach to build a unitary state where every individual in Syria benefits from equal citizenship rights? Previously, Kurds did not have citizenship rights or official identities. However, now the central government is calling on everyone to be represented in the administration. Contrary to your claim, Professor, laying down arms and electing and sending civilian deputies to the Syrian parliament seems like a more civilized and peaceful approach. Why do you find it so difficult to focus on the common interests of Syrians instead of using ethnic and religious differences to feed micro-nationalisms?
good point also if kurds gets a piece of land why not Durzi's, Yezidi's and Turkmens??? Why you just want to help kurds particularly? Do you love them? No you don't! your initial hope is to weaken Turkiye, Iran and dividing them into small groups so you menage them easily. Once you do this they will given those corrupt small groups leaders some authority and a little bit outdated weapons and you get their sources almost for free! This is called ''Divide and Rule'' and used by western countries for decades all around the world!
@keremustunel7197 Because the professor wants Kurdish state that can be used against other states in the area. Israel wants it, so by default, all others on the deep state boat want it, too.
You`re take is very modern and like most modern takes it`s bullshit. Dividing Syria into many states wont lead to endless war since the country is already in endless war. Best case scenario it will resolve the problem. Worst case scenario nothing changes. Your idea was already tried and caused endless war. It has been an absolute failure.
First of all PKK-YPG-SDF whatever organization you name in Syria or Turkey does not represent all Kurds living in those areas or abroad. So, we would greatly appreciate if you had made that distinction in the beginning of the video. These are (some are recognized as terrorist by internationally) some organizations that are aspiring for independent Kurdistan with varying boundaries within Middle East. Your title and talk does not make this distinction but keep saying Kurds wants this Kurds want that, Kurds are under threat and so on. This delicate issue requires a lengthier video. Still, in general, I like your videos.
Ve işte. Gerçekler için teşekkür ederim.... Sonunda akıllı bir yorum burada buldum. Evet PKK asla Kürtleri temsil etmiyor. Çünkü Rakka'da ve Deyrizor'da isyan eden Kürt aşiretleri onları oradan kovdu. Her Kürt terörist değildir ve PKK asla Kürt değildir. Bu mantıklı yorum için teşekkürler.
Don't speak in other people tong. All Kurdish People support Kurdish motion for independence ,even other people that has family relation with Kurds support them.
Openly refuses to differentiate between groups he views as inferior, demands other differentiate between groups he views as inferior so he can attack them piecemeal without anyone getting upset, refuses to elaborate.
Sir, you’re a professor and you should know not to call them Kurds, rather YPG. you should call them what they call and identify themselves. Western media is intensively, ridiculously biased
As America, if you do not stand by your NATO ally Turkey, which fought alongside you in 1950-53, you will lose credibility among other NATO members and world. Supporting Turkey increases America's credibility.
It is really important to differentiate between Kurts and pkk. Not all Kurts follow or support pkk and anything connected to them. Turks and Kurts lived side by side for years as friends. Also if you look at the last few months devlet bahçeli (Turkish politician) suggested to free the leader/ founder of pkk to work on a diplomatic solution. This video builds a really screwed narrative of the current situation.
Dear Prof Let's talk about why colonial countries were in our lands . Why did they try to divide our country ? Why did they want the Ottoman to collapse? More than 600 years there were a peace in those land. After the first war one , the middle east turn to inevitable bloodbath. My question is why the US or the UK is to try to divide our lands we all have a cultural similarity and we have diverse religious beliefs all respect each other until someone whisper them to do something stupid. I think time to the US army to go back where they are protect their land not the land they do not own. On the other hand , we do not have any problem with Kurdish people all the ethic groups see each other brothers and sisters as I said again because they share similar values cultures. I travelled all east Turkiye . Nobody disrespect me that I am Turkish most of the Kurdish people open their door gave me food let me stay their home. As the same we do it. What you are doing is just a propaganda. PKK/PYD/SDG ARE TERROSIT ORGANIZATIONS. THEY KILL MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE EVEN KURDISH PEOPLE. THEY KIDNAP YOUTH KURDISH PEOPLE WHO ARE 14 15 YEARS OLD TO MAKE THEM SOLDIERS. so i am asking again why does the US arms stay in some strategic area in Syria ? Because there is energy. You European people do not give a fuck for any ethnic groups you support them because you need energy . Basicallt you people use them to get what you want that's all
This is the argument a 14 year old would give. Also I love the hilarious, made up narrative, about you going to Kurdish houses as if that has anything to do with this. US imperialism is bad but Turk imperalism is fine? What business does Turkey have in Libya? I wonder if that is making you money. The US (and every decent country) gave the YPG support because, unlike your army, they fought ISIS. They will leave one day but you will stay as long as there are minorities to oppress. Also the Ottomans were not at peace in Syria for 600 years; there plenty of just internal wars between greedy governors. Your empire got carved up because you joined the losing side of a world war, that's how it goes. Russia chose the winners and still lost its empire for a while.
So, what you say, basically: Turkish Imperialism/colonialism good, other Imperialism/colonialism bad. I wish everyone would be so benevolent as the Ottomans were. ;)
The way you describe the situation between Kurds and Turkey sounds incredibly biased. SDF is not "linked" to PKK it's literally renamed version of PKK which is a terrorist organization (also accepted by your nation UK) that has killed civilians/ransacked villages/kidnapped and killed teachers amongst further countless atrocities. Those are not documented just by the Turkish government but other Human right organizations as well, you can even find them on the Wikipedia ffs. You are also trying to illustrate all of this as a Kurdish-Turkish war and trying to align all Kurds with PKK/YPG/SDF which is a thing someone who doesn't know a squat about "Kurdish problem in Turkey" would do. Kurdish people constitutes almost 1/5 of the total population in Turkey. Almost half of the current cabinet is literally Kurdish, most notably Ibrahim Kalin (Chief of Intelligence) and Hakan Fidan (Minister of Foreign Affairs). Kurdish people do have large business in Turkey, Kurdish people are living freely in Turkey, Kurdish people are part of government in Turkey, Kurdish people are part of the armed forces in Turkey, Kurdish people gets elected in Turkey. Now tell me, how on earth could you say that this is a war between Turkey-Kurds ? Did Kurdish people had problems in Turkey ? Yes they had. Have they reasonable demands (like making Kurdish elective course in schools) that are not fulfilled yet, I do think so. Is there still a small racism issue in rural places, yes but unfortunately that goes both ways. But portraying Turkey as an anti-Kurd state is beyond ignorance for many countless reasons, I've listed few of those reasons in previous paragraph. You've mentioned in the "Who Will Help the PKK/YPG/SDF" section that Iraq Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) has complex relations with Turkey so that's why they are not going to help 😀 That's not the whole reason Mr "Kurdish/Turkish" professor and you know it, the reason is both Turkey and KRG (Iraqi Kurdistan) fights against PKK. Yes you've heard it right, PKK which you've defined as "Kurds" are literally fighting against Iraqi Kurdistan Government. As a side note those relations between IKRG and Turkey are not "complex" but rather they are "good". As an ending note, take a look at the demographic map of Syria once and tell me how it is not racist against Arabs to call Deir ez-Zur, Raqqa, Tell Abyad (which is occupied by YPG/SDF) a Kurdish city ? So called "Democratic" terrorists have suppressed Arab protests (yeah may be to your surprise, some Arabs might not want to live under a literal terrorist organization which idolize a Kurdish racist terrorist named Abdullah Ocalan) in the last week by killing 10 civilians in the Raqqa region. There are many cases of their crimes reported by Human rights organizations. But yeah sure they are as democratic as it gets and wants to bring peace to the region, poor SDF/YPG/PKK 🙁
It's quite amusing to watch Europeans get carried away with themselves. Listening to them say things like, "Let's impose sanctions on Turkey, and if they don't listen, we'll send them a harsher warning letter." :D Friends, please research Turkish history thoroughly, from beginning to end, and then try to threaten us.
Making war just makes more refugees and also why would they return to a state at war? Turkey fighting our best allies against ISIS is outrageous and always has been.
@@s871-c1q allias is NATO country Turkiye. Fight against terrorism can be done with legal states. Terratorial integrity of Syria is importend. Damaskus is legal owner of Eastern Syria. Regional states do not want a new remote controlled garnison state.
How could you call a guerilla organisation by the name of an ethnicity? Do you call ETA “the Basques”? Or do you call the Irish Republican Army “the Irish”? So why speak as a political organisation that only has the support of 3 million of 20 million kurds in Turkey and probably lower in Syria is a representation of the entire ethnicity? Seems like you have an agenda to make these self admitted maoist guerillas who have attacked civillians in malls killing babies in the 90s (which got them recognized as a terrorist organisation around the world) look like “freedom fighters”. Just because they use another name now doesn’t make it different. And you say the istanbul ypg attack didn’t happen? it was literally prevented through calls made to the police reporting the suspicious person! Do your research before making baseless statements like “Turkey was looking for the right moment”. Your lack of sympathy for the Turkish side of the story is crazy.
dont forget to include north london as well , everywhere they call kurdistan they riot and if the PKK and Ypg is world recognised as a terror group how come the have rallies in the capitals of these countries , do we ever see Nazi rallies or IRA or any other outlawed rallies on our streets in europe
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Iraq, Syria and Turkey are all Kurdish lands, at least partially.
I am perfectly aware of the difference. I have worked on the region for many decades. But I think too many Turkish people neglect to see the very real aspirations that many Kurds have about their pursuit of a homeland. They simply say put everything down to the PKK and then don’t need to confront the bigger picture.
@@JamesKerLindsay you have a terror group claiming they want a Kurdish nation and many Kurdish people that have nothing to do with them and dont support them. If you dont state the difference youll just be pointing fingers at them(same as saying IS** represents muslims). Also living here for decades in this society is something you wont understand no matter how many decades you study it. Kurds and Turks here are sick of western media and politicians lies, portraying as if there is a Kurd vs Turk conflict. There isnt and never has been. Everyone just saying the same things over and over again "fascist turks, turks vs kurds, independence, ethnic war" bla bla bla. You are a profesor right so research why and how this pkk group was created, what they did, who supported it and how its evolved later on. And honestly if you arent going to research all the details than what are you a professor for?
@@JamesKerLindsay Yeah but it is interesting PKK has organic ties to SDF so Turkish view is consistent. That kind of aspirations and pursuit is not free even in Europe, it only means more blood and suffering in middle-east. They can practice everything culturally in Iraq and Turkey. The region has a memory of foreign interventions and their local collaborators. If they achieve independent state it won't be really independent. Land-locked country surrounded by their old-friends that became new-enemies? You know there is only one country in the region that wants to use those aspirations and their lives as their own cannon-fodder.
@@JamesKerLindsay James, bigger picture tells us US and UK give weapons to PKK to split Iraq and Syria even Trukiye. Do you think we are children? We are aware of everything, dont worry about it.
And unlike Russia, Turkey will get a pass from the West because it suits their interests in the region. The best the Kurds can hope for is a strong-worded letter from the EU blaming both sides and demanding a cease of hostilities.
@@Robespierre-lI Turkey is the 2nd largest army of NATO and as its military, no one in this region wants to face this, including Iran or Israel. For example, if you noticed during the revolution, the war ended almost before it started when Turkey said that if you intervene in Russia and Iran, I will intervene in you. The most that America can do here is political pressure and economic pressure. embargo, but since this issue is a vital situation for Turkey, nothing will change. In short, the PKK is over and America and Europe see it. The problem is how to declare it.
@@g1u2y345 Russia gave that 'pass' to Azerbaijan to liberate her own territories internationally recognized namely Karabagh. You tried to mean this, im pretty sure, sometimes we all hurry and may mistype. ;)
2:17 a message to PKK guys substrate, if the European force really wantedd you to have an individual country, why they didn't offer you back that time? they could have gave you that from Syria and Iraq? Why do you think your beloved Europeans didn't let you have a Kurdish Country back then?
The German Foreign Office: “We will explain to Turkey the necessity of protecting the rights of the Kurds in northern Syria.” Have you noticed how the rights of some people are highlighted while the rights of others are obscured for more than five decades?
@@delibaba_1923 because Kurds fought against ISIS with incredible resistance and strategy, literally destroying ISIS and saving their region-and the world-from jihadists and extremists. So, why does it seem like some people, especially from Turkey, always assume bad intentions when it comes to things from Europe or America? It's like if something comes from there, it's automatically seen as bad, evil, or shameful. This shows how deeply some people have been influenced by certain beliefs, without considering other perspectives.
@@awesomestrawberry1348 bro have you been paying attention to something called ''the world history''? anytime a european state meddles in some other region of the world ''english in india'' wink wink so on and so on what was that other than pure evility?
@@kocahmet1 Sure bro, If you got the chance to live in one of those 'evil' countries, you’d absolutely stay here, right? So..which one’s really the 'evil' one now??
Anyone except the national security forces carrying a firearm is a threat ! Even if it's Kurd or Türk or Arab or blue, black or purple. It's not about ethnicity it's about security !
This problem you are talking about will be solved easily by the Syrian current government. So don't worry The Kurdish local people are part of the Syrian people And I'm one of those Kurdish people.
You need a solid basis for calling Turkey's presence in Syria an invasion. If you share this basis with its source, I will consider your video not as Kurdish propaganda but as a geopolitical analysis. Turkey's cross-border operations are based on the Adana Agreement. According to the 23-point agreement, both states would take measures against organizations that threatened them, especially the PKK, and prevent all their activities on their territory. However, since there was no military unit of the Syrian state on the Syrian side of the border, Turkey exercised its rights arising from this agreement and carried out cross-border operations to ensure its own border security and supported Syrian Arabs against Kurdish terrorists in the areas cleared of the PKK YPG. In Syria, the concept of a unitary state came to an end with the uprisings that started after the Arab Spring and turned into a playground where armed formations inside Syria are supported by international powers for their own interests. I don't think it is necessary to be an expert to understand how ISIS emerged, how it grew and who it serves. This is a project that international powers have been pursuing for years to make their presence in another state acceptable. First, support and grow an armed organization. When this organization grows and starts to get out of control, this time support and grow another armed organization against it. Then another and then another.... This is actually the most basic summary of the developments that have been taking place in Syria and similar non-“democratic” but resource-rich geographies for years. States support frictions in line with their own interests and want to maintain their presence in the field either with their own presence or through their extension forces.
First of all this agreement was against the pkk. the ypg is not the pkk. they just share the same concept. there is no direct orders from the pkk Second, the Syrians interpret the conflict between the PYD and Turkey differently. The Syrian government has repeatedly told Turkey to withdraw from Syrian territory."
PKK is not YPG ,Syria is no Turkey. Turkey has no moral right to interfere with these people. It's imperialism at its worst. It's amazing some people criticise the West for imperialism but some countries like Turkey never face the same criticism.
James, outstanding content. Excellent job on summing up a highly complex situation dealing with Turkey/Syria & the Kurds. Turkey seems focusd on being the local/regional hegemonic power dictating the future political constructs.
They don’t. Israel gets its oil through Turkish ports. When Israel kills Palestinians, Erdoğan puts on a show and acts as though he cares, while Netanyahu does the same regarding Kurds. However, behind closed doors, they are actually strong trading partners.
They don’t. Israel gets its oil through Turkish ports. When Israel kills Palestinians, Erdoğan puts on a show and acts as though he cares, while Netanyahu does the same regarding Kurds. However, behind closed doors, they are actually strong trading partners.
Because Israel needs neighbors who are not Arabs, Persians and Turks in order to survive in the region. The borders of the Kurdish satellite state are strategically drawn. It will be a puppet state of the Jews Promised land. The Euphrates and Tigris rivers, the major water sources of the Middle East, are also there. Who controls the Euphrates and Tigris also controls the region because water resources are limited.
Air support through drones does not count as military intervention apparently. Paramilitary organizations do not count as military intervention either it seems. Turkish logic 2024.
@@epschas rocketing russian ''targets'' on russian territories via Ukraine by american-british missiles with aucthentic (a military secret) validation codes for activation it s not invervention. Western logic 2024.
I like how you call it Kurdistan before they even declare themselves that lmao. Yk, according to them they are still the "Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria" where the Kurdish militia (who are a minority even in places they occupy) are equals with the plurality. But it's nice to see that even before they inevitably declare themselves the autonomous bish-bash-bosh of Syria you are calling them what they actually strive to be, an ethnostate for a minority.
Why do you think anyone could tell another to change names or terms in their respective language? Neither Erdogan nor the Turkish government has any mandate over other languages.
There’s no Syrian Kurdistan. Assad didn’t even give Kurds passports. Kurds are less than 2 million, compared to Turkmens and Arabs who are much bigger . U.S. and Israel wanted to give 40% of the Syrian lands to Kurds, who are only comprising 7% of the population …
thanks for pointing this out! Also the area is given to Kurds are the best part of Syria in terms of oil and agricultural sources.... Half of the reason Esad is gone that Kurds (USA) hold the economical power and regime was weaken with no money...
There is no legal land named Kurdistan in the world. By the fact, Syrian Kurds are a minor group in the state. If you form a state called Kurdistan, you can give land in your country to this pure people :)
I have to say that this was a very lazy analysis of the situation in Syria regarding the SDF ("The Kurds") and the the Turks. I'd like to remind you that there are many Kurdish people serving in the current Turkish government, like Hakan Fiden, the Turkish foreign minister. You seemed to have failed to mention a great deal of important and very relevant information.. For example, back in 2011 during the Arab Spring, the US was backing Turkish mercenaries, in order to over throw the Syrian government, this changed when the US suddenly decided to start backing the SDF instead. The SDF were previously known as the YPG, which is connected to the PKK. The PKK, which i am sure you already know is listed on Turkiye's, US, UK and EU terrorist list. So we have a situation in which the US/UK and EU are funding and arming a proscribed terrorist group that is listed as such by their own governments. Please watch this video by General Raymond Thomas, the commander of the U. S. Special Operations Command, explains rebranding YPG away from the terror group PKK. ruclips.net/video/cHpaIO-Pj10/видео.html
they already have their atonomy.do u know what is meaning UK? "United Kingdom" means there are several independent autonomy. dont u know right now a country exist named "Ireland"?
The Irish literally have an independent country, they’ve had it for like, over a century at this point… and England allowed Scotland to hold several independence referendum’s but the Scots decided they wanted to stay. The British have openly stated that if part of their country wants to leave it is allowed to do it but no one has wanted to leave for quite some time. The Falkland’s and Gibraltar also hold independence/ unification with a neighboring Spanish speaking nation votes from time to time and every time they decide to stay British.
Is England prohibiting the identity and language of Scotts. Please do not compare a middle east country with a western democratic country. You look very ridiculous.
You call yourself a prof? Where did you get your information? Before you make a content like this do your homework righteous and correctly. If you didn't know there is no such as kurdistan. I want see your reaction when i claim a land that is yours. It's always easy talk and give a biased opinion if you're not involved.
There is no Syrian Kurdistan... Syria is one piece..US gave 40% of Syria to YPG including oil and water rich places..this is not fair.. .. talk about Israel invasion, not Turkey..
So called “Kurdistan” does not exist. That land is in Turkish hands for 1000 years since the Ottomans entered Anatolia in 1071. Turkey will never let its land to be taken away and partitioned. Also Kurds killed tens of thousands of Turkish people through terrorist attacks. This video failed to explain all that. Turkey has a right to defend itself.
Stop portraying the Turks as invaders, the Kurds never had a state. The Turks took those lands by fighting the Byzantines, not the Kurds. Before Byzantium there was Rome. Before Rome, Anatolia had its own civilizations like the Hittites and Urartians, but there was never a Kurdish state.america's goal is not to give a state to the Kurds, but to divide the Middle East and put a watchdog state in the oil fields.
Medes was the Kurdish state. To be more precise, it's both the Kurdish and Balochi state, those two nationalities go back to the Medeans because the Medean language turned into the Kurdish and Balochi languages.
@@stevenfallinge7149 The fact that the Medes are Kurds is nothing more than an allegation, it is just bullshit made up by the Kurds to find ancestors for themselves.
My friend, your findings are a complete fiasco. There are millions of Kurds living in Turkey, I am Turkish, my closest friends are Kurds, there is no such problem in Turkey, you are describing terrorist organizations (PKK, YPG) as Kurdish groups, which everyone accepts as terrorist organizations. The USA is trying to legitimize them with the excuse of fighting ISIS. The Turkish state mind is aware of everything and gives the necessary response and supports the territorial integrity of Syria.
"There is a guy who says he is italian. This is an answer to him. I saw Turkish soldiers wearing PKK dresses and killed people to let people think the PKK is attacking the civilians however such things was made by the government of Turkey many many times. And yes Pkk and the Kurds are the same. Some of the Kurds were assimilated and now they may feel comfortable and maybe they lost their hopes and changed their way. Those lost kurds are not allowed to talk about the current situation and Kurds' needs."
Dear Prof, I think it is a first time that your analyse is not well calculated. Turkey is not planning to attack Syrian Kurds. Its focus is only on marxist lenninist kurdish terror organization PKK (in Syria its name is PYD). When you say it's planning to attack to a nation, we should understand that there must be a risk of heavy civil casualities or brutal war crimes. But at here we are talking about nations (Turks, Kurds and Arabs) living together hundreds of years at same country. So in short term, its a fight against to a terror otganization. We could give many examples from your country's history or any of the other countries, but i think at least it is enough for now. Only I wish you could look from a Turkish perspective to these events, or any muslim nation perspectives, not a western nor marxist view.
Dear James, I wanted to share an observation regarding the framing and terminology used in your recent discussions, as I believe it could enhance the clarity and balance of your videos. In your coverage of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, you accurately distinguished between the actions of Hamas as a terrorist organization and the broader Palestinian population. This distinction is crucial as it avoids generalizing an entire group and helps focus on the actors directly responsible for specific actions. However, in your recent video on the Türkiye-SDF conflict, you referred to Türkiye’s actions as attacks on "the Kurds," rather than specifying groups like the SDF or PKK, which Türkiye considers terrorist organizations. While the Kurdish population indeed has a central role in this conflict, the use of "Kurds" as a blanket term risks conflating a diverse ethnic group with specific entities engaged in armed conflict. This is particularly relevant when contrasting it with how you carefully differentiated between Hamas and Palestinians in the Israel-Palestinian context. Moreover, this framing reflects a broader tendency often observed in Western media, where U.S.-aligned groups, such as the SDF, are frequently portrayed more favorably than groups or actors considered adversarial. Such discrepancies in terminology and framing not only influence public perceptions but can also detract from an objective understanding of the conflict. While this tendency is not uncommon, it ultimately undermines the credibility of the West, which has already deteriorated significantly in recent years. These double standards contribute to further instability in the global order and fuel conflicts, eroding trust in international norms and human rights advocacy. I urge you to maintain a high level of professionalism and credibility in your analyses. As a respected expert in international relations, your words carry significant weight, and imbalances in your framing risk contributing to the broader deterioration of trust in international relations and human rights discourse. Thank you for considering this feedback. I hope it proves helpful in refining your already valuable and insightful content.
🔴 Unfortunately, you were not neutral in this issue, but you were on the side of an illegal organization against a NATO country, but in a soft way so as not to appear that you are against Turkey, and this is unfair and incorrect. You forgot the large number of Turkish civilians who were treacherously killed by this organization over many years. I wish you success in your endeavor in a neutral manner and do not take the side of the aggressor.
Kurdish people are our brothers. Pkk is funded by usa and eu, they are not representing the rights of kurdish people. Anyone who trying to divide our homeland will pay the price. This is the difference between you and us. We fight to stay alive, you fight to steal resources. 🐺 🇹🇷
Why help for the Kurds and not for other minorities or all Syrians?? The Kurds get already more help than all others, year by year millions over millions of $ for weapons. Never seen a hospital or school build by US or EU in Syria or around.
How did those areas become majority Arab? Ethnic cleansing. Afrin is majority kurdish, your country invaded it and immediately started looting and destroying kurdish cultural sites
It appears that you are attempting to create a narrative that, should Israel continue its occupations or if a potential military operation by Turkey leads to a confrontation between Turkish and Israeli forces in Syria, Turkey's reputation would be tarnished in the international media. This demonstrates how biased your perspective is as someone who does not understand the just cause of Turkey, nor the cultural and regional dynamics of the Middle East, and highlights that you are more focused on protecting the interests of certain groups rather than fostering the development of international relations. Turkey has never harbored hostility toward the Kurdish people. As someone born in Turkey and now living in Europe, I share a peaceful and common history with my Kurdish brothers and sisters, including my childhood friends. However, your persistent use of phrases like "Turks are oppressing Kurds" or "Turkey is preparing an attack on the Kurds" clearly illustrates how biased your political stance is and how you are attempting to manipulate perceptions. Turkey has no issues with the Kurdish people. Turkey has no problems with anyone who respects its territorial integrity. The issue Turkey faces lies with the PKK. However, the PKK is not an organization as you describe; it is an armed terrorist group that has also oppressed Kurdish-origin citizens living in Turkey. To achieve its goals, the PKK has burned forests for years, detonated bombs in public places, and caused the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians. It has mercilessly massacred many Kurdish-origin Turkish citizens, including their babies and families, in the eastern regions. In the past, Turkey initiated a peace process to address these issues. However, this process was disrupted after the PKK murdered two Turkish police officers in their sleep during the peace negotiations. Countries like the United States, Israel, and the United Kingdom, acting in pursuit of their own interests, attempted to create a narrative through European and American media. By collaborating with individuals claiming to serve impartial causes, they sought to portray Turkey as the party that disrupted the peace process. These attempts, however, were unsuccessful. Now, individuals like you, perhaps trying to appear favorable to certain circles, are attempting to create a perception that "Turks are oppressing Kurds" or "Turks are eradicating Kurds." This is entirely false. It is perfectly reasonable for leaders like Trump and many European officials to seek withdrawal from the Middle East due to immigration issues and economic reasons. However, it might be disappointing for the institutions or groups you serve that resources in these regions cannot be exploited. I kindly suggest that you focus on your own issues. Syria belongs to Syrians. Turks are certainly not enemies of Kurds. The YPG/PYD-PKK groups are not freedom fighters for the Kurdish nation but bloody terrorist organizations. The Kurdish people are a much greater and more significant nation than these groups or organizations.
I’m not trying to create any sort of narrative. I am trying to explain a situation, clearly and understandably, to outside audiences. What am finding is that because I am not saying it exactly as many viewers in Turkey would like, I must have some sort of anti-Turkish/pro-Kurdish position. This is the real issue. It’s not my bias, it’s the perception of bias because I don’t conform to the bias of a section of viewers.
When discussing “Türkiye and the Kurds,” it’s important to consider the relationship between Ankara and Iraqi Kurdistan (Barzani). Türkiye played a crucial role in establishing an autonomous Kurdistan within Iraq, providing full support to its leader, who even received a diplomatic Turkish passport. Therefore, it’s not accurate to frame the situation in Syria as “Turks vs. Kurds.” Türkiye is engaged in conflict with the US-backed PYD/YPG/SDF, which are essentially branches of the PKK. This fact is acknowledged by various US institutions, the EU, Russia, and Iran knows it and you know it too... The conflict is fundamentally between the PKK and Türkiye, and it’s unproductive to pretend otherwise.
Thanks. But if you watched video again, I clearly mention the complex relationship between Turkey and the KRG and show pictures of Erdogan visiting Erbil and meeting senior Kurdish leaders, with a Kurdish flag in the picture.
@@JamesKerLindsay Yeah you mention that briefly and still create a false Turks vs Kurds narative. We both know you put your feelins and biased to your work. So much biase and nonsense...
Türkiye's population is approximately 85 million and 30 million of this population are Sunni Kurds, Turks and Kurds living in Türkiye for centuries and in every Turkish families have ties with Kurdish families by marriages so Türkiye and Kurds can never be enemies because they have bond to each other, no one can separate those ties that's impossible, pkk and ypg they are not Kurdish, they are terrorist groups from different countries. Your speech misleading your followers, you must spoke out what the reality is.....
30 million? The last time i checked they were saying that it's somewhere between 15-20 million. It keeps rising everyday somehow. According to you half of Turkey's population is Kurdish
You are engaging in biased journalism. First and foremost, Türkiye has no issue or problem with Kurds. Within Türkiye, there are thousands of Kurds with whom we live as brothers and sisters. They enjoy the same rights as all other Turkish citizens, and they even have a political party represented in parliament. The Turks ruled over this region for centuries during the Ottoman Empire. When the Ottoman Empire fell after World War I, the Allied Powers attempted to confine the Turks to a small area, dividing Anatolia-Turkish land for thousands of years-among themselves. However, the Turkish people, unwilling to accept this, resisted through the War of Independence, a monumental struggle in which tens of thousands were martyred. We reclaimed our homeland and established our nation under the Republic of Türkiye, founded on secular principles and a just system of governance. Our land is precious to us, and under no circumstances should anyone attempt to divide it again. Türkiye is simply defending its borders and doing nothing more. Furthermore, the so-called Kurdish regime in Syria, referred to as the YPG, is nothing more than a branch of the PKK-a group you call a Kurdish party but fail to identify as a terrorist organization. The PKK is recognized as a terrorist organization by nearly all countries around the world. You cannot distort these facts. Even if Türkiye conducts a military operation, it would never target civilians like Israel; it would focus solely on the regime. The YPG’s goal is to first dismantle Syria’s territorial integrity and then seek to claim land from Türkiye. Why are you so eager to see other countries’ territories divided? If you’re so enthusiastic about this idea, perhaps you could donate a part of your own land to the so-called “Kurdistan state.”
I’m starting to feel that you might hold a predetermined opinion against Turks, Türkiye, or both. 1. You mentioned the PKK but failed to highlight that they are widely recognized as a terrorist group around the world. 2. While you discussed their support from Russia, you did not mention the backing they receive from one of the most terrorism-supportive governments in the world, Iran. The SDF, which controls regions in Syria, has forcibly displaced more than 10 millions of Syrian Arabs from their lands and homes, which close to 5 million of them has fled the country to save their lives. Now, these displaced individuals have the opportunity to return and reclaim their lands and properties.
People will always see bias when they want to see it. I’ve worked on Turkey for over thirty years. I know the country well. But I do have my concerned about Erdogan’s foreign policy, as do many others within Turkey and abroad. But I certainly have no ill-will towards the country or people.
@ As you mentioned, people will always perceive bias when they want to see it. I am not a strong supporter of Erdoğan, but his actions against terrorist groups who rely solely on violence and killing to achieve their goals should not be unjustly criticized. Take the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) as an example. They have been supported by Russia, a country invading Ukraine and targeting civilians; by Iran, one of the most oppressive regimes in the world; by Assad, another notorious dictator; and now by Israel, responsible for the tragic deaths of over 17,000 children in Gaza. Yet, somehow, it is Turkey and Erdoğan who are consistently blamed. Is this fair, or is there more to the story?
It’s hard to give credibility to Erdogan’s claims, no matter how legitimate they might be. Stating that terrorist groups like the PKK shouldn’t be given shelter, while he hosts Hamas that is holding Americans hostage.
I can see lots of hatred from some low informed people about Kurdish Nation and our issue. Let me make it clear, we never entered Iraq, Iran, Syria or turkey as refugees, we were on that land and geography before turks and Arabs thousands of years, the took over our land after Sykes peakok agreement that diveded Kurdistan into 4 parts. Well, for the new non kurdish generation of these 4 countries it might be hard to go back a 100 years and understand the present because they have not suffered or alienated or isolated and discriminated against through out all these years, but we kurds have lived in that hell and are still burning. Let me make something clear, if all the world turns its back on us, if there is only one little Kurdish child left in the world, Kurdistan is one and will be free. Now, if our brothers and sisters in Syria let us have our local government, there is a chance for kurds to feel home and build the new Syria, but in case they lower their standards and go hand in hand with erdoğan (who has kurdofobia) internal war will break out, and trust me it is going to bring an enormously pain and pity to the people of Syria and it might go over the border to turkey.
Thanks. Azerbaijan isn’t usually included in lists of Kurdish areas, but you’re right. Maybe it’s because they are considered “indigenous”, but moved there. The question is how long since moving anywhere makes one indigenous. A whole different and controversial topic, especially in that region! 🙂
These are regions where the Arabs, who are the real owners of the region, are oppressed by the Kurds, even though they are a very small minority with the power of America behind them. The definition of the Kurdish regions is wrong. And eventually we will all see that the Arabs will no longer accept this and the Kurds will never be able to govern these regions. Europe and America are disconnected from reality.
Does that mean that in areas where the Kurds are a majority you support their aspirations for autonomy or even self rule? As you are basing your argument on the will of the majority in an area.
@@nigelgarrett7970 How do you define the region? I define it as a country. If you support the establishment of a country because a community is the majority in a neighborhood or a district or a province, that is naivety to say the least. And yes, I realize you asked the question in reference to Turkey. Be assured, the maps of the Kurdish regions you see on the internet are completely far from reality.
@@barboist And how do you define a country? They are far more artificial than regions, who often have geographic features to define boundaries. There have been 34 new countries since 1990.
Many of the Arabs are quite happy to live in this area. They have got local autonomy. In 2019 they have fought alongside the Kurds and a few days ago the Manbij Military Council forces, mostly Arabs, have fought hard against the SNA.
In international broadcasts there is constantly the aim to depict the picture that the Turks are fighting the Kurds! This is absolutely false! Not all of the YPG consists of Kurds and not all Kurds are Supporting YPG! Therefore we know what you guys are trying to do but we aren’t going to allow it!
Turks never wanted to invasion . 3 million Kurds lives in Syria. And 2-3 million Turks lives there . And other ethnicities… all Syria 30 million and Kurds keeping %35 of Syria only 3 million Kurds control %30 oy Syria u think this is justice???james come on ur just doing demagoguery
Talking about the history of the rebels of kurds in Türkiye but not even a bit info about the so called protests which are against human rights and you did not mentioned PKK is accepted as a terrorist group among EU and US, SDF is also coming from the roots of PKK . Moreover, all the firepower comes from north Syria and north Iraq. When you consider these aspects of the matter it will be understandable for Türkiye to act like this even though it cannot be said that is totally right thing to do. I was expecting more of a objective approach.
@@european-oneI think you are the one who is prejudiced, but you are too arrogant to see it and you accuse others of being prejudiced. The fact that you write similar things under the comments of everyone who has the opposite opinion proves this. You do not respect anyone's opinion, you do not respect anyone! You are selfish enough to try to impose your own opinion on everyone
@@Mali_58-n2c you have been spamming there is no such thing as Kurdistan? Hypocrite? You are too arrogant to see it.You don't respect anyone's opinion, you don't respect anybody, etc etc, blah blah blah
@european-one Leave the affairs of the middle east to middle easterners you don't see us coming in and commenting about Irish unification or Catalan or Bavarian secessionism do you european-one?
Reports are emerging that Turkey may be preparing for another full-scale invasion of Syria to take on Kurdish forces. Of course, we've been here before. These reports appear from time to time. But this feels more serious, given the fall of Assad. So, do you think Ankara will do it? Or will its Western partners be able to stop it? And will anyone come to the aid of the Kurds if Turkey does go ahead? Let me know your thoughts below.
Yes. Turkey will invade, and those who can stop them will not do so.
@@Robespierre-lIyou put it so completely and eloquently. As a Romanian, we lived for centuries between the Austro-Hungarian , Russian and Ottoman Empires. I wonder how we survived 😅
@@JamesKerLindsay not Turkey u have to say Türkiye
@@orhanyilmaz2758 I’ve been through this too many times. When Turks start calling my country “The United Kingdom” when speaking Turkish, I will consider using Türkiye in English.
No way. Turkey under Erdogan regime, it is less possible to attack kurd-leaded ex-terrorist coalition (SDF). It would mean firing to the USA. Turkey has less chance to dare it with tangling fragile economy and the weakest ever social coherence inside country. It would not bring good consequences for Erdogan's reign. Erdogan, primarly and predominantly considers his personal politcal future than anything else.We all know that CFR backed Erdogan, as vice-president of Greater (Israel) Middle East project, his own words, is their guy. He wont do anything that may deeply change the flow of the plan. Kurdish state on 4 countries (Iraq(done), Syria (almost), Iran (pending), Turkey (pending) ) is must of this plan.
On the other hand, Turkey has the most kurdish populated country in the world it would have impacts inside Turkey as well. Israel needs proxy and cheap mercenaries that's why only Israel definitely will support ex-terrorist entity (SDF) a tout risques et perils. Mazlum Abdi - sister brandname of PKK - is wrong guy, it seems other kurds would be more welcomed for turkish public opinion. In any case i hope Turkey would not hit the kurds - even ex-terrorist in Syria. It would be in favor of Israel. Making ennemies is easy but handling (pastoring) them is tough, so better make less ennemies.
I am an Italian living in Turkey. I settled in Turkey in 1998. One of my female students died after a PKK attack. She was a teacher. I met many Kurds and Turks in Turkey. The main mistake in this video of yours is to think of PKK and Kurds as if they were the same.
sad for your lost and also thanks for sharing because im turk they just say im racist when i say pkk is terorist haha i guess everyone has their interest and will lie
They are the Same..No one wants good for them.. except their party.
hey, i am a Turk living in italy and i just wanted to appriciate your comment
What about the civilian's turkey killed
@@karwanramadan4669 what about the civilians PKK killed, like the Turkish teacher friend from this Italian guy? Why don't talk about this, why always claim that only you're the victims? You want war, you get war. Stop to hide behind lies.
You need to learn the definition of " what is called KURD and what is called "terrorist" and the meaning of the INVASION " as a professor. Every kurdish person is not a terrorist and most importantantly " every terrorist is not Kurdish. We saw many european and american citizen as terrorist.
you still seem cant tell difference between kurds and pkk , james.
No, I can, perfectly well. The problem is that it is too easy for many Turks to separate the PKK from the aspirations of many Kurds for greater rights, and even a state. They just say that the PKK are extremists and the rest of the Kurds are happy. It’s an easy way to avoid the issue. I’ve seen it in other contexts.
@@JamesKerLindsay This response from you proves that you are biased and not suitable to be a professional academic or journalist. Pathetic in my opinion...
@@JamesKerLindsay sizin topraklarınızda mutlu olabilirler isterseniz ülkeniz bir bölümünü Pkk lılara verebilirsiniz bizim öyle bir niyetimiz yok Türkiye de yaşayan Kürtler Türkiye için canını verir çünkü bu ülke bizim ülkemiz pkk lıların veya onlarla iş tutanların değil.
It shows nothing except that he has a realistic grasp on the situation. Take one look at these comments, and it's full of Turks and bots with four numbers after their name spouting fake stories about how Kurds have no desire for Independence, when anyone who has spoken to Kurds from Turkey knows that it's a long-standing aspiration for them.
@@JamesKerLindsay Hilarious
Oh yes another european thinks pkk and kurds as the same thing
Most of them founded or does it for popularism
@@darthvader4899 they mostly are. Lmao
and that being said, within kurds there are several different ethnic groups on which they are not necessarily get along, there zazas, kurmanjis, yazidis, and zorttotos
Makes sense but in this case why would Turkey attack the Syrian Kurds then?
Turkey not attacking Kurds they attacks tererust in Syria lands@@Tripple_Threatt92
It is also very interesting that the PKK/YPG, which is on the terrorist list of many countries around the world, is described as innocent fighters. This is what it takes to be a hypocrite.
@@m.t.2363 the Turks are pushing that label for their interests
@@stevenmanglis7368 Yea labels, interests, pushing, etc...
www.dni.gov/nctc/ftos/pkk_fto.html
@@stevenmanglis7368 wtf was that supposed to mean ?
Free Kurdistan 💪✌️❤️💚
What about Türkiye's support for ISIS? Aren't they terrorists?
It's not a Kurdish homeland, James. It's the USA that wants to create an Israeli satellite.
The kurds have been living in that are for thousands of years! Do some history reading!
@@omerguney1230 i am from Syrian Kurdish family who have to immigrate to Turkey cause of usa backed SDF YPG pressures on us. Sdf occupied our land and kicked out Kurds who dont want to support them .Usa backed SDF /YPG trying to destroy unity of syria for oil .i want to live together with my Arap Turkmen brothers in an United syria. Usa backed SDF YPG also a threat for Kurds too . Thanks to Ottomans 🇹🇷 spirit for hosting us thanks to Turkey for hosting us
@@tahsintaha2893 but we live together with other etnics not Alone . Usa backed SDF YPG trying to destroy unity of syria for usa and israel s benefits i am from syrian kurdish family and i support unity of syria and i want to live together with my Arap Turkmen brothers together as we dıd for decades.i dont want USA BACKED SDF YPG pressure on us
@tahsintaha2893 PKK pyd ypg Kürt değil
Turkey have right to defend it's borders.
Turkish held areas seem to be returning to normality - schools and hospitals, including infrastructure. Turkey has 4 million Syrian refugees! She wants them return back to their homeland. Unfortunately the Kurds in Syria,with the help of USA, Britain, Germany and some smaller members members, captured nearly 45% of Syria, ethnically cleansing the Arabs and Turkmen from the areas they occupied. Kurds of Syria comprise only 10% of the Syrian population. To create propaganda with the use of the Kurds as the victims, looks like a turning eye to the truth. The so called ISIS was created by the West with a view to interfere in Syrian affairs! Now tell that to the public!
işid in babası obama annesi hilary dir. TRUMP.
Suriye yi işgal eden işid, birden yok oluyor ve y p g o bolgelerde sihir gibi ortaya çıkıyor. işid kılık değiştirmiş p k k lı bile olabilir. sonra eski kıysfete dön, suriyeyi parçala.
fake news
its all about their agenda.
@@naweed0 What propaganda? The west is furious it can't use the civil war for its own gain. They are furious that Turkey ended a civil war that they wanted to continue.
Absolutely right.
Although CIA reports say that YPG is affiliated with the PKK, you do not call it a terrorist organization. Even if the USA changes its name, this does not change the fact that they are a terrorist organization. US General Thomas says the following about the YPG terrorist organization. Turks say that YPG and PKK are the same and say, 'I have a terrorist enemy.' 'Why are you PARTNERING with terrorists, how do you do this as an ally?' he said. "So we changed the name of YPG," he says. Despite all these facts, you still say KURDISH, NO, IT IS NOT KURDISH, IT IS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.
Kürtler doğu Anadolunun ve ortadoğunun otokton halkıdır binlerce yıldır burdalar siz Türkler orta Asyadan gelip onların bulunduğu topraklara el koydunuz şimdi onlar mı terörist oluyor yoksa sizmi
No country has done more to the Syrian people than Turkey. Saving the lives of 4 ml Syrians from certain death by the regime and has been taken care of them for the last 14 years costing the Turkish taxpayers over 40 bn $ yet you don't hear that in the Western media. and Turkey is not fighting the Kurds but fighting a designated Kurdish terrorist organization pkk that happens to be the Kurdish majority.
No they are fighting against the kurds. Turkey is destroying the infrastructure( schools, hospitals) of the kurds. Furthermore many kurdis civlist have been killed. The government (rojava) there is defending their civilians. therefore is a fight against the kurds
Thank you for speaking the truth, many people don't know the truth
If Türkiye is not fighting the Kurds, why is the Kurdish language banned?
Kurds can live as they wish in their own land... Kurds did not come from Central Asia, they have the right to live as they wish.
@@denizdeniz4755where is the Kurdish language banned?? In Kurdish areas are always street and government signs in Kurdish, even Football Teams who plays in official Turkish leagues have Kurdish names (Google AMEDSPOR). Amed ist the Kurdish name of the city Diyarbakır. So, what's banned now? Why always claim to be a victim, this is so ridiculous.
The worst kind of journalism is the one in which you package lies with partial facts and narrate them as the truth. From the terminology you use, and the words you chose, one can easily see your intention. You are biased beyond denial, and you have a clear hidden motive in your narrative. Also, it seems that either you don't know much about the history and ethnic composition of the region, and the blood ties between Turkiye and Syria; or you intentionally omit them from your video as they don't serve your agenda. Whatever the reason is, people should avoid making comments about topics in which they have very limited information. That is an ethical responsibility for any virtuous person, and more so for a person with an academic title.
aklımdakileri yazmışsın eline sağlık
Exactly. The wording is too irritating.
what did the author get wrong?
@@Sassannid He mentions Kurds like they are a monolith, all wants independence and all want to achieve it via armed resistance. PKK is supported by a small fraction of people. Also most of the killings done in the name of independence by PKK are targeted towards Kurdish people. In reality, PKK is a criminal syndicate like Mexican cartels, who uses terrorism and propaganda to gain influence to handful of people. It is also a proper tool for intelligence agencies. US is using for controlling Syrian oil reserves.
You know what you just said? Nothing. Just any assumption (with well-sounded words) without any explanation. Are you sure that you know what science is?
You did not say that there is no organization called ISIS and that the US uses it to protect its interests there. You did not say how many teachers, women and children the PKK killed and kidnapped. You did not say the joy of the Syrians and that they were free for the first time. You did not say the Sednaya slaughterhouse. You did not say that the oil fields of the Syrian people were exploited by the PKK together with the US.
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You don't even care about Kurds, you're just anti-Turkish.
yes
Can you blame him?
@@chk6194 Why would you be anti anyone?
Every sane person can only be disgusted with this genocide country.
@@Robespierre-lI me?
Kurds and Turks have always walked together. On good days and bad days. In war and at wedding. No one can tear us apart from this brotherhood. Impossible.
Don’t Laing turk .Biji Kurdistan 🥂😁
Kürtler Türklerle kardeş falan değil biz dost bile değiliz benim toprağımı alandan kardeş olmaz
Seeing a lot of comments that obviously come from people who think it's important to highlight the difference of kurds and PKK. You think the kurds who don't want their own state aren't brainwashed?
I can't believe this man is a Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He speaks without knowing anything about geography, demographics, or historical processes. If this man is so ignorant, his students won't be able to find Turkey on a map.
@@fotografustasi cahil degil islerine boyle geliyor. Onlar biliyor pkk nin en az isid kadar vahsi bir teror orgutu oldugunu
Did you know
--Elected president, Turgut Özal, who served as the 8th President of Turkey from 1989 to 1993 was kurdish
--Leader of main opposition party, Kemal Kılıcdaroglu, who served as party's leader from 2010 to 2023 was also kurdish
--Currently, kurdish people in Türkiye are being represented in the parliament by a 57-member party dedicated to address the problems of kurdish population. This 57 number does not include numerous kurdish representatives serving their constituents as members of other political parties. As in the example of Kemal Kılıcdaroğlu, kurdish members of parliament even served as leaders of other parties --other than the kurdish party.
--AKP alone, the ruling party, is estimated to contain more kurdish representatives than the kurdish party itself.
So, stop portraying Türkiye as an enemy of kurds. Kurdish people enjoy more freedom and higher standards of living in Turkiye than in any independent state they are likely to create. Who wants an independent kurdistan? A few hooligans who are hoping to become dictators of the country they hope to create, so that they can suck the blood out of their people.
Do you think, if created, independent kurdistan will be like Switzerland? No, it will be more like Brunei or Afghanistan. THAT İS THE SAD TRUTH.
Sorry, he knows only what he likes to know.
So was Ismet Inonu, the second president in turkey. The foreign minister of turkey right now is Kurdish. The president of the parliament is Kurdish. Turkey also has close relations with the Kurds in north Iraq.
okay? what's your point? many people who worked under saddam hussein were also kurdish. traitors exist everywhere
@@3TTriple inonu was a bad leader, and a kemalist on top of it.
@@adamelghalmi9771 Inonu has his highs. He was an important General in the war of independence. The word Kemalist was a word used by the English to describe the people who fought on Mustafa Kemals side. For me being a Kemalist is a positive but it was abused by Alparslan Turkes and Kenan Evren who we found out later where projects of Gladyo. Anyway, without kemalists there is no Turkey. Inonu was the Diplomat who has determined Turkeys borders. While countries in Europe had millions of people dieing in World War 2, Inonu kept turkey out of it. And maybe most important he made Turkey a multi party democracy.
Yes. That was the entire point Turkey stepped into the Syrian Civil War.
Have someone ever tried diplomacy. Sweden is a diplomatic heavyweight.
No more it’s over , Turks. Wins, ❤Türkiye 🇹🇷 is most important country, it’s like this scale with a enormous weight in the middle which can sway either way and the side it slides wins the geopolitical game
@@007supertime Exactly, I am involved in many different business deals many of them has to do with football.
For my boss and me Turkey is an important strategic partner. I believe that the Turkish and Iranian governments have some squabble but with there being a new progressive President in Iran. I feel Iran and Turkey can help me keeping Sweden and Europe more generally safe.
@@SwedishpolymathUnfortunately, Trump will let Erdogan do whatever he wants. Sweden won't be able to influence this.
@@LunaticTheCat You honestly believe Trump will be president. Putin has Trump in his pocket and Putin is a good friend of my boss Herr Dahlmeier. Ask Hufvudstadsbladet about the press releases that I have sent them on Herr Dahlmeier's behalf.
The Kurds got really fucked over by having not 1, but 4 countries occupying them. Anywhere they’d gain ground, the others step in to crush them.
@19Szabolcs91 If we can't sleep well no one will.
@@ruzgar_adam Are you saying this from your apartment in Berlin, avid Turkey-supporter
@@ruzgar_adam I know thinking is hard for you but the Kurds have been an identifiable people for a long time. They live on territories that can be invaded. The territory on which most of them live was carved up between four states following the dissolution of the Ottoman empire.
Are you a history expert?
Who's fault is it that they don't have their own land? The kurds them self it's their own fault that they couldn't estabilish their own land.
It's not because you lived there centuries ago that you can claim that land, that's not how it works.
If you are so concerned give a piece of your own land.
I am impressed YT didn't delete ur comment
Turkey's position has always remained the same regarding the YPG/PKK. It faces a significant threat from them, and I think it's highly naive to assume that the YPG fought ISIS for the US. They took advantage of the situation to advance their aspirations towards carving Syria into a Kurdistan. This would create far greater issues and would only be a declaration of war for the Turks. I think the West is playing naive when it could never itself tolerate such a threat along its own borders.
Daiş ile sınır komşusu olmaya razısınız ama bak yemin ederim ilerde Suriye Afganistana dönecek ve siz o zaman keşke Kürtler olsaydı en azından bize saldırmazlardı diyeceksiniz tabi bizi yenebilirseniz ki bu mümkün değil evlat
I guess you can call 20% of Turkeys own population wanting to secede a threat
Or perhaps the west is actually playing dumb when they actually know the truht. It's actually pretty common for the west to use devide et impera and neo-collonialism strategy. Even current middle east conflict right now is actually happened as a result of western segregation and mapping to make each arabs country feel their borders is threatened.
The irony of Kurds being terrorized and racially abused throughout history by the Turks and chemically bombed by Saddam but if the Kurds want to create a homeland for themselves to have some peace and security for once from the crazies around them, that's somehow a "declaration of war" for the the Turks
Why is Turkish hypernationalism justified but any concept of Kurdish identity not?
Why they can't establish their state in Michigan America?? ¿?
@@MonjeziShaban Land and the name belonged to native indians.
Syria need territorial unity, Kurdish is doing what's opposite to that. Great move by Turkiye is helping the new Syrian government to consolidate national unity.
Turkey is the 2nd largest army of NATO and as its military, no one in this region wants to face this, including Iran or Israel. For example, if you noticed during the revolution, the war ended almost before it started when Turkey said that if you intervene in Russia and Iran, I will intervene in you. The most that America can do here is political pressure and economic pressure. embargo, but since this issue is a vital situation for Turkey, nothing will change. In short, the PKK is over and America and Europe see it. The problem is how to declare it.
How's inflation?
The problem is Turkey doesn't have many real friends or allies. It's a NATO member and I doubt it has much influence except a little in Syria today and a few African countries.
@@european-one You know nothing about Turkish patriotism. Turks have lost so many casualties during the Kurdish Separatist Insurgency over the past 40 years. For them, economic inflation is not a primary concern, as they believe it will eventually decrease and come to an end in the long term. However, when you have a separatist terrorist state on your border, you only have one chance to clear the border of all of them.
@@alvergovision9480 wasn't what I asked, but turkey could have given autonomy decades ago. Turkey is against democracy
@@european-one misery in your comments and lack of intelligence. Well your way, none of my business.
Why dont kurds just leave arab majority areas and try to negotiate deal where they would not project danger to turkey and distance themselves from pkk?
They have erased Arab and Turkmen villages. Amnesty international has the ethnic cleansing report on Kurds. They killed people who tried to return.
How will you do that when Turkey has a problem with Kurds existing in any official way.
Also, why this focus on not a single Arab or other can be in Kurdish controlled area, but dozens of millions of Kurds can be stateless in Turk, Arab, Iranian controlled lands ?
Why is it so inconceivable to you that Arabs could be in Kurdistan, but never the reverse ?
you can have the arabs in turkey and give them a part of turkey hahaha
This is so biased video. Becuase you talk like these territory only belongs to the Kurds. Actually Kurds are minority most of the places they invaded during the civil war. If your biased point of wiev correct there must be at least 20 more new independent country just in EU borders. If you like these seperatists so much, why don't you share your own country?
Kurds are the largest ethnic without a state. We have our land, language, and culture. So, let’s stand for the liberation of Kurdish nation and the minorities from imperialist.
Only 10 percent of syrian population is kurdish. ,where as they posses 45 percent of syria. Even among the biggest part of the population is ypg members having close ties with pkk terrorist group that has killed 45 tousend innocent people by launcing attacks to turkish territory.
@ clearly you are not going to understand that Kurds deserve a country of their own. I shouldn’t discuss further. You are siding with the oppressor rather than the oppressed. The powerful is almost always the oppressor, leaving limited option for the powerless.
@@huneremin6333 Syria belongs to Syrians. So you want Syria to belong to Kurds?
@@lrg069 clearly you also don’t recognize that Kurds have the right to self govern, given the fact that Kurds lived under oppression of Nation states in the region. Syria now is a proxi state govern by foreign countries.
Thanks for sharing the truth sir
I think they will. The opportunity is too good for them not to. The Kurds control many areas that are arab majority that Turkey could switch leadership on. Additionally, turkey has a good relationship with kurdish autonomous region in Iraq so I believe they will try to switch the leadership of Syrian kurdish areas.
@@TheSwedishHistorian if they were just against PKK and not Kurds when they got the okay to go to Efrin by their masters in the west, they would have not settled Arbs and Turkmen in Kurdish areas.
@@salihsalih3658 They are against separatist Kurds. The Kurds who disregard sovereign countries and their sovereign territories because their western owners promised them land. No country wants a separatist organization in their land and anyone who has that mentality is going to get dealt with in the manner they understand regardless of where they are. You think you can annex a part of Sweden and think the Swedish will be okay with it? They get upset with Muslims immigrating, they would lose their minds over something like this.
@@salihsalih3658 Northern Syria has many towns and cities with majority turkmen population, when Rojava with the USA gained controlled you forced them to migrate. Kurdistan can exist in northern Iraq we have good relationships with them since they are not with the PKK but against them
@@adidoki Kurds unlike the Turkish and Syrian governments don’t discriminate against others. We love our neighbors and we have lived together for thousands of years. Look at any Kurdish entity and you will see all languages are respected. Looked at Rojava emblem it even has Turkish in it for the Turkmens. Look I truly believe Ocelan is a MIT agent, however I also believe that those Kurdish fighters are risking their lives for the Kurdish cause. If Turks and Arabs has same respect for Kurds as we do for them we would all be in peace. We can have a Middle East Union. Which would benefit all and the world. But we keep killing each other instead. Let’s all be partners in this land and not masters.
@@crazycowboy213 I despise any and every government who takes violent action against any segment of their country that wants to exercise greater control over themselves.
The only government I loathe more is governments that enter other countries to try and tell the people living there how to live
There are lots of important points overlooked and observed partially, yet leading to very unfair and unjust conclusion. First and foremost; Kurds are not represented by ypg/pyd/pkk/sdf. There are thousands of Kurds fled from ypg/pkk/sdf's brutal and oppressive regime. On the map the so called divided/invaded Kurdish state has never been existed, yes in that area lots of Kurds lived and still living with Arabs, Turkmens and so on. Also you forgot to mention that Turkey is the only country that fought against isis on the battle ground and succeeded(Operation Euphrates Shield) liberating Azaz and Al Bab region. Turkey's main objective is to have a united, peaceful Syria, where all the Syrians from different ethnicity and religion can live peacefully. At the moment the petrol, water and fertile farmlands are invaded by the pyd/ypg/pkk, these areas are vital for the self sufficient Syria. The Syrian people will not let sdf/pyd/ypg/pkk snatch these lands from themselves either with or without the help of Turkey.
thanks dear Professor
Prof. James I think you often phrase things in deliberately misleading ways, especially when you mention Turkey striking "the kurds." Turkey does not strike or intend to strike, kurdish persons who are unaffiliated with the PKK or YPG. If this was the case, several million Kurds living peacefully in Southeastern Turkey would be dead. I believe more specificity on your part is necessary.
I believe it is rich that you speak condescendingly to someone who is way smarter than you. You shoot bombs, bombs explode, the bomb is unable to verify if the person is "unaffiliated with the PKK or YPG" and really you would say anyone you kill is PKK.
His intention is obvious. He is doing his propaganda without looking his imperial country inglaterra.
"Peacufully"😂
Full lies. He is only stating the Washington policies in the territory. Not telling child soldiers of YPG whic is not a represant of Kurds rather a terrorist group for military interest of Israel and US. Same scenario played bu Us more than a century. I am not even telling the population engineeering dine by Ypg. Mandotory imigration of Turks and Arabs. US should stay in its’ soil if its not seeking military conflict with Turkey. Results would be tremendous for both. Enough is enough
We kurds see sdf as our only hope to self rule in Syria, which is the most basic right we can have. Besides, the similarities between pkk and sdf are only philosophical. Kurds in Syria have no plan to harm turkey. Turkey has been dealing with the Kurdish issue within its borders for a 100 years.
@ Turkey does not have problem with kurds besides there are thousands of marriages. This ethnical division is superficially created. This was a project of Britian and accomplished within percentages. Pkk and ypg is cultivated by Europeans later on US. If you listen Israeli governors you will understand that foundation of this teror orginisation serves to harm to Turkey and other neighbours. Do you want all Arabs Kurds and Turks to be Palestenians? Are you out of your mind?
In this matter, I hate the misleading ethnicity maps. At the beginning of this video as well, such a map painted a huge swath of Turkey in yellow, giving the impression that that area is nothing but Kurds. In reality, that is the area where a significant fraction (not necessarily the majority) is Kurdish, but the remainder (majority in many cities of the painted area) are Turks. For almost a thousand years Turks and Kurds coexisted in this area, intermingling the populations. The percentage threshold of such maps vary, that's why you can find different maps in different sources. (Just pointing out a common factual error without taking sides)
You do realise that was the map of the proposed separation under the Treaty of Sevres. I think you’ll need to take it up with history, not me.
Istanbul is the largest Kurdish City. Of the 18 to 20 MM Kurds in Turkey 75 to 80 % of them live in western Turkey.
@@JamesKerLindsay You do realise that Treaty of Sevres was made by the west for exploiting the region? Thank you for your honest intentions of exploitng the middle east. It's good that the west and the eu still dream of exploiting the middle east after 100 years..
Kurds are an Iranian people, and Romans did not allow them to the West of Zagros mountains. Kurdistan was a region established by Seljuks as an adminstrative area, for non-Persians, to the east Zagros mountains. Various Kurdish tribes were given refuge by Ottomans after Safavis adopted Shia creed.
@@JamesKerLindsay A historical document is not history.
May all minorities in Syria, including Christians, Kurds, Druze, etc. be safe... 🙏 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 🇸🇾
May all Syrians be happy, healthy & (should be) wealthy (free from poverty)... 🙏 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 🇸🇾
one million Sunni Arabs were massacred in the past 13 yrs alone by the minority Alawites that were backed by the other minorities.. The minorities should be grateful that the Arab majority is not going Rwanda on them after what they have done in the past 50 yrs
@@Wul-Lop 🇹🇷🐺💪
@@Wul-Lop orada İsrail gibi terörist bir devlet varken, tüm orta doğu güvende olamaz asla.
@@MoReal2 there is no Single united Arab majority, if was Alawites Wouldn't be in power. Arab in Syria are several groups with different roots and ideology
@@SJA-mh2uz not true at all. the Majority identify as Sunni Arabs, thats like 85%
Clearly you give an extremely inaccurate information. Majority of the members of PYD in Syria are came from outside. PYD is practically and principally extension of PKK which is recognized terrorist group. Turkey has no problem with Kurds but fights against PKK in Turkey, in Iraq as well as in Syria.
Syria is home to many ethnic and religiously diverse people. No geographical area is homogeneous. Dividing Syria into many states or administrations based on ethnic and religious grounds will lead to endless wars. Is this war environment deliberately desired to continue? Who will benefit from it? The Middle East has suffered greatly from ethnic and religious micro-nationalisms. Instead, wouldn’t it be a better approach to build a unitary state where every individual in Syria benefits from equal citizenship rights? Previously, Kurds did not have citizenship rights or official identities. However, now the central government is calling on everyone to be represented in the administration. Contrary to your claim, Professor, laying down arms and electing and sending civilian deputies to the Syrian parliament seems like a more civilized and peaceful approach. Why do you find it so difficult to focus on the common interests of Syrians instead of using ethnic and religious differences to feed micro-nationalisms?
good point also if kurds gets a piece of land why not Durzi's, Yezidi's and Turkmens??? Why you just want to help kurds particularly? Do you love them? No you don't! your initial hope is to weaken Turkiye, Iran and dividing them into small groups so you menage them easily. Once you do this they will given those corrupt small groups leaders some authority and a little bit outdated weapons and you get their sources almost for free! This is called ''Divide and Rule'' and used by western countries for decades all around the world!
@keremustunel7197
Because the professor wants Kurdish state that can be used against other states in the area.
Israel wants it, so by default, all others on the deep state boat want it, too.
You`re take is very modern and like most modern takes it`s bullshit.
Dividing Syria into many states wont lead to endless war since the country is already in endless war. Best case scenario it will resolve the problem. Worst case scenario nothing changes. Your idea was already tried and caused endless war. It has been an absolute failure.
Well said.
The thing is that the Syrians don't believe in a central state it was always a dictatorship, the Syrian society still practices familial tribalism.
First of all PKK-YPG-SDF whatever organization you name in Syria or Turkey does not represent all Kurds living in those areas or abroad. So, we would greatly appreciate if you had made that distinction in the beginning of the video. These are (some are recognized as terrorist by internationally) some organizations that are aspiring for independent Kurdistan with varying boundaries within Middle East. Your title and talk does not make this distinction but keep saying Kurds wants this Kurds want that, Kurds are under threat and so on. This delicate issue requires a lengthier video. Still, in general, I like your videos.
Ve işte. Gerçekler için teşekkür ederim.... Sonunda akıllı bir yorum burada buldum. Evet PKK asla Kürtleri temsil etmiyor. Çünkü Rakka'da ve Deyrizor'da isyan eden Kürt aşiretleri onları oradan kovdu. Her Kürt terörist değildir ve PKK asla Kürt değildir.
Bu mantıklı yorum için teşekkürler.
Typical western media narrative. They like to do this kind of manipulations intentionally or unintentionally.
Don't speak in other people tong. All Kurdish People support Kurdish motion for independence ,even other people that has family relation with Kurds support them.
Openly refuses to differentiate between groups he views as inferior, demands other differentiate between groups he views as inferior so he can attack them piecemeal without anyone getting upset, refuses to elaborate.
Nelson mendala if you want to know about Turks be Kurdish for an hour
Sir, you’re a professor and you should know not to call them Kurds, rather YPG. you should call them what they call and identify themselves. Western media is intensively, ridiculously biased
As America, if you do not stand by your NATO ally Turkey, which fought alongside you in 1950-53, you will lose credibility among other NATO members and world. Supporting Turkey increases America's credibility.
@@ruhielver4409 that's why the turkey must know that it does not have the right to annihilate a total nation and its spirits
"nato ally" does not provide cover when the dogs of Erdoğan are the aggressors.
It is really important to differentiate between Kurts and pkk. Not all Kurts follow or support pkk and anything connected to them. Turks and Kurts lived side by side for years as friends. Also if you look at the last few months devlet bahçeli (Turkish politician) suggested to free the leader/ founder of pkk to work on a diplomatic solution. This video builds a really screwed narrative of the current situation.
Dear Prof
Let's talk about why colonial countries were in our lands . Why did they try to divide our country ? Why did they want the Ottoman to collapse? More than 600 years there were a peace in those land. After the first war one , the middle east turn to inevitable bloodbath.
My question is why the US or the UK is to try to divide our lands we all have a cultural similarity and we have diverse religious beliefs all respect each other until someone whisper them to do something stupid. I think time to the US army to go back where they are protect their land not the land they do not own. On the other hand , we do not have any problem with Kurdish people all the ethic groups see each other brothers and sisters as I said again because they share similar values cultures. I travelled all east Turkiye . Nobody disrespect me that I am Turkish most of the Kurdish people open their door gave me food let me stay their home. As the same we do it. What you are doing is just a propaganda. PKK/PYD/SDG ARE TERROSIT ORGANIZATIONS. THEY KILL MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE EVEN KURDISH PEOPLE. THEY KIDNAP YOUTH KURDISH PEOPLE WHO ARE 14 15 YEARS OLD TO MAKE THEM SOLDIERS.
so i am asking again why does the US arms stay in some strategic area in Syria ? Because there is energy. You European people do not give a fuck for any ethnic groups you support them because you need energy . Basicallt you people use them to get what you want that's all
This is the argument a 14 year old would give. Also I love the hilarious, made up narrative, about you going to Kurdish houses as if that has anything to do with this. US imperialism is bad but Turk imperalism is fine? What business does Turkey have in Libya? I wonder if that is making you money. The US (and every decent country) gave the YPG support because, unlike your army, they fought ISIS. They will leave one day but you will stay as long as there are minorities to oppress.
Also the Ottomans were not at peace in Syria for 600 years; there plenty of just internal wars between greedy governors. Your empire got carved up because you joined the losing side of a world war, that's how it goes. Russia chose the winners and still lost its empire for a while.
So, what you say, basically: Turkish Imperialism/colonialism good, other Imperialism/colonialism bad. I wish everyone would be so benevolent as the Ottomans were. ;)
"you europeans" suddenly youre not european? I thought you were 🤣
The way you describe the situation between Kurds and Turkey sounds incredibly biased. SDF is not "linked" to PKK it's literally renamed version of PKK which is a terrorist organization (also accepted by your nation UK) that has killed civilians/ransacked villages/kidnapped and killed teachers amongst further countless atrocities. Those are not documented just by the Turkish government but other Human right organizations as well, you can even find them on the Wikipedia ffs.
You are also trying to illustrate all of this as a Kurdish-Turkish war and trying to align all Kurds with PKK/YPG/SDF which is a thing someone who doesn't know a squat about "Kurdish problem in Turkey" would do. Kurdish people constitutes almost 1/5 of the total population in Turkey. Almost half of the current cabinet is literally Kurdish, most notably Ibrahim Kalin (Chief of Intelligence) and Hakan Fidan (Minister of Foreign Affairs). Kurdish people do have large business in Turkey, Kurdish people are living freely in Turkey, Kurdish people are part of government in Turkey, Kurdish people are part of the armed forces in Turkey, Kurdish people gets elected in Turkey. Now tell me, how on earth could you say that this is a war between Turkey-Kurds ?
Did Kurdish people had problems in Turkey ? Yes they had. Have they reasonable demands (like making Kurdish elective course in schools) that are not fulfilled yet, I do think so. Is there still a small racism issue in rural places, yes but unfortunately that goes both ways. But portraying Turkey as an anti-Kurd state is beyond ignorance for many countless reasons, I've listed few of those reasons in previous paragraph.
You've mentioned in the "Who Will Help the PKK/YPG/SDF" section that Iraq Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) has complex relations with Turkey so that's why they are not going to help
😀 That's not the whole reason Mr "Kurdish/Turkish" professor and you know it, the reason is both Turkey and KRG (Iraqi Kurdistan) fights against PKK. Yes you've heard it right, PKK which you've defined as "Kurds" are literally fighting against Iraqi Kurdistan Government. As a side note those relations between IKRG and Turkey are not "complex" but rather they are "good".
As an ending note, take a look at the demographic map of Syria once and tell me how it is not racist against Arabs to call Deir ez-Zur, Raqqa, Tell Abyad (which is occupied by YPG/SDF) a Kurdish city ? So called "Democratic" terrorists have suppressed Arab protests (yeah may be to your surprise, some Arabs might not want to live under a literal terrorist organization which idolize a Kurdish racist terrorist named Abdullah Ocalan) in the last week by killing 10 civilians in the Raqqa region. There are many cases of their crimes reported by Human rights organizations. But yeah sure they are as democratic as it gets and wants to bring peace to the region, poor SDF/YPG/PKK 🙁
Great comment.
It's quite amusing to watch Europeans get carried away with themselves. Listening to them say things like, "Let's impose sanctions on Turkey, and if they don't listen, we'll send them a harsher warning letter." :D Friends, please research Turkish history thoroughly, from beginning to end, and then try to threaten us.
Syrian Arabs are i majority in eastern Syria. Damaskus needs own oil to build up country. Refucies can movel back.
Making war just makes more refugees and also why would they return to a state at war? Turkey fighting our best allies against ISIS is outrageous and always has been.
@@s871-c1q allias is NATO country Turkiye. Fight against terrorism can be done with legal states. Terratorial integrity of Syria is importend. Damaskus is legal owner of Eastern Syria. Regional states do not want a new remote controlled garnison state.
@@s871-c1q NATO and YPG ? Comical
that's a lie!!! only kurds, christians and armenians live in east syria!!
How could you call a guerilla organisation by the name of an ethnicity? Do you call ETA “the Basques”? Or do you call the Irish Republican Army “the Irish”? So why speak as a political organisation that only has the support of 3 million of 20 million kurds in Turkey and probably lower in Syria is a representation of the entire ethnicity? Seems like you have an agenda to make these self admitted maoist guerillas who have attacked civillians in malls killing babies in the 90s (which got them recognized as a terrorist organisation around the world) look like “freedom fighters”. Just because they use another name now doesn’t make it different. And you say the istanbul ypg attack didn’t happen? it was literally prevented through calls made to the police reporting the suspicious person! Do your research before making baseless statements like “Turkey was looking for the right moment”. Your lack of sympathy for the Turkish side of the story is crazy.
Thanks!
@@williambeeson435 Thank you so much, William. That is incredibly kind. I really appreciate it. Very best regards, James
Everywhere in the world where Kurds live is called Kurdistan, then IRAQ, SYRIA, TURKEY, FRANCE, GERMANY, there are many Kurds living there.
dont forget to include north london as well , everywhere they call kurdistan they riot and if the PKK and Ypg is world recognised as a terror group how come the have rallies in the capitals of these countries , do we ever see Nazi rallies or IRA or any other outlawed rallies on our streets in europe
Iraq, Syria and Turkey are all Kurdish lands, at least partially.
When will you learn to seperate Kurdish people and pkk?
I am perfectly aware of the difference. I have worked on the region for many decades. But I think too many Turkish people neglect to see the very real aspirations that many Kurds have about their pursuit of a homeland. They simply say put everything down to the PKK and then don’t need to confront the bigger picture.
When will Turks learn this defense is worn out?
@@JamesKerLindsay you have a terror group claiming they want a Kurdish nation and many Kurdish people that have nothing to do with them and dont support them. If you dont state the difference youll just be pointing fingers at them(same as saying IS** represents muslims). Also living here for decades in this society is something you wont understand no matter how many decades you study it. Kurds and Turks here are sick of western media and politicians lies, portraying as if there is a Kurd vs Turk conflict. There isnt and never has been. Everyone just saying the same things over and over again "fascist turks, turks vs kurds, independence, ethnic war" bla bla bla. You are a profesor right so research why and how this pkk group was created, what they did, who supported it and how its evolved later on. And honestly if you arent going to research all the details than what are you a professor for?
@@JamesKerLindsay Yeah but it is interesting PKK has organic ties to SDF so Turkish view is consistent. That kind of aspirations and pursuit is not free even in Europe, it only means more blood and suffering in middle-east. They can practice everything culturally in Iraq and Turkey. The region has a memory of foreign interventions and their local collaborators. If they achieve independent state it won't be really independent. Land-locked country surrounded by their old-friends that became new-enemies? You know there is only one country in the region that wants to use those aspirations and their lives as their own cannon-fodder.
@@JamesKerLindsay James, bigger picture tells us US and UK give weapons to PKK to split Iraq and Syria even Trukiye. Do you think we are children? We are aware of everything, dont worry about it.
And unlike Russia, Turkey will get a pass from the West because it suits their interests in the region. The best the Kurds can hope for is a strong-worded letter from the EU blaming both sides and demanding a cease of hostilities.
@@Robespierre-lI He’s right, Turkey will likely get a pass just like Azerbaijan got a pass for what they did to Artsakh
@@Robespierre-lI Turkey is the 2nd largest army of NATO and as its military, no one in this region wants to face this, including Iran or Israel. For example, if you noticed during the revolution, the war ended almost before it started when Turkey said that if you intervene in Russia and Iran, I will intervene in you. The most that America can do here is political pressure and economic pressure. embargo, but since this issue is a vital situation for Turkey, nothing will change. In short, the PKK is over and America and Europe see it. The problem is how to declare it.
@@g1u2y345 Russia gave that 'pass' to Azerbaijan to liberate her own territories internationally recognized namely Karabagh. You tried to mean this, im pretty sure, sometimes we all hurry and may mistype. ;)
what can the EU do they are useless
SHAME SHAME SHAME
2:17 a message to PKK guys substrate, if the European force really wantedd you to have an individual country, why they didn't offer you back that time? they could have gave you that from Syria and Iraq? Why do you think your beloved Europeans didn't let you have a Kurdish Country back then?
The German Foreign Office: “We will explain to Turkey the necessity of protecting the rights of the Kurds in northern Syria.”
Have you noticed how the rights of some people are highlighted while the rights of others are obscured for more than five decades?
Well said kardesim! Also how about rights of Yezidi. Turkmen, Durzi etc. ??? Why just Kurds??? any particular reason? Why germans love Kurds???
@@delibaba_1923 because Kurds fought against ISIS with incredible resistance and strategy, literally destroying ISIS and saving their region-and the world-from jihadists and extremists. So, why does it seem like some people, especially from Turkey, always assume bad intentions when it comes to things from Europe or America? It's like if something comes from there, it's automatically seen as bad, evil, or shameful. This shows how deeply some people have been influenced by certain beliefs, without considering other perspectives.
@@awesomestrawberry1348 bro have you been paying attention to something called ''the world history''? anytime a european state meddles in some other region of the world ''english in india'' wink wink so on and so on what was that other than pure evility?
@@kocahmet1 Sure bro, If you got the chance to live in one of those 'evil' countries, you’d absolutely stay here, right? So..which one’s really the 'evil' one now??
The zelensky curse toppled the German government I don't think Erdogan cares what Germany thinks
Anyone except the national security forces carrying a firearm is a threat ! Even if it's Kurd or Türk or Arab or blue, black or purple. It's not about ethnicity it's about security !
This problem you are talking about will be solved easily by the Syrian current government.
So don't worry
The Kurdish local people are part of the Syrian people
And I'm one of those Kurdish people.
thanks for this Video
Thank you!
You need a solid basis for calling Turkey's presence in Syria an invasion. If you share this basis with its source, I will consider your video not as Kurdish propaganda but as a geopolitical analysis.
Turkey's cross-border operations are based on the Adana Agreement. According to the 23-point agreement, both states would take measures against organizations that threatened them, especially the PKK, and prevent all their activities on their territory. However, since there was no military unit of the Syrian state on the Syrian side of the border, Turkey exercised its rights arising from this agreement and carried out cross-border operations to ensure its own border security and supported Syrian Arabs against Kurdish terrorists in the areas cleared of the PKK YPG.
In Syria, the concept of a unitary state came to an end with the uprisings that started after the Arab Spring and turned into a playground where armed formations inside Syria are supported by international powers for their own interests. I don't think it is necessary to be an expert to understand how ISIS emerged, how it grew and who it serves. This is a project that international powers have been pursuing for years to make their presence in another state acceptable. First, support and grow an armed organization. When this organization grows and starts to get out of control, this time support and grow another armed organization against it. Then another and then another.... This is actually the most basic summary of the developments that have been taking place in Syria and similar non-“democratic” but resource-rich geographies for years.
States support frictions in line with their own interests and want to maintain their presence in the field either with their own presence or through their extension forces.
First of all this agreement was against the pkk. the ypg is not the pkk. they just share the same concept. there is no direct orders from the pkk
Second, the Syrians interpret the conflict between the PYD and Turkey differently. The Syrian government has repeatedly told Turkey to withdraw from Syrian territory."
@@Fixmesut Source: Trust me Moruk
PKK is not YPG ,Syria is no Turkey. Turkey has no moral right to interfere with these people. It's imperialism at its worst. It's amazing some people criticise the West for imperialism but some countries like Turkey never face the same criticism.
James, outstanding content. Excellent job on summing up a highly complex situation dealing with Turkey/Syria & the Kurds.
Turkey seems focusd on being the local/regional hegemonic power dictating the future political constructs.
Thank you so much, Andrew. Really appreciated, as always. I hope all is well with you. Merry Christmas!
I never knew Israel advocated for Kurdistan. Now Erdogan’s hatred for them makes more sense.
The irony of Israel supporting a terrorist organization that js trying to destabilize an existing secular democracy.
They don’t. Israel gets its oil through Turkish ports. When Israel kills Palestinians, Erdoğan puts on a show and acts as though he cares, while Netanyahu does the same regarding Kurds. However, behind closed doors, they are actually strong trading partners.
They don’t. Israel gets its oil through Turkish ports. When Israel kills Palestinians, Erdoğan puts on a show and acts as though he cares, while Netanyahu does the same regarding Kurds. However, behind closed doors, they are actually strong trading partners.
Because Israel needs neighbors who are not Arabs, Persians and Turks in order to survive in the region. The borders of the Kurdish satellite state are strategically drawn. It will be a puppet state of the Jews Promised land. The Euphrates and Tigris rivers, the major water sources of the Middle East, are also there. Who controls the Euphrates and Tigris also controls the region because water resources are limited.
Why? Israel and Turkey enjoy very good relations - under the sheets of course
Currently, Turkey is not intervening with its military; rather, it is providing intelligence, logistical, and air support through drones.
Air support through drones does not count as military intervention apparently. Paramilitary organizations do not count as military intervention either it seems. Turkish logic 2024.
@ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov describes the special military operation in Ukraine as not being a war.
@@epschas rocketing russian ''targets'' on russian territories via Ukraine by american-british missiles with aucthentic (a military secret) validation codes for activation it s not invervention. Western logic 2024.
@@mohamedali2858 yeah and that's equally ridiculous
Technically speaking air support is military intervention
Unless the operators are locals that I have heavy Doubts about it
I like how you call it Kurdistan before they even declare themselves that lmao. Yk, according to them they are still the "Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria" where the Kurdish militia (who are a minority even in places they occupy) are equals with the plurality.
But it's nice to see that even before they inevitably declare themselves the autonomous bish-bash-bosh of Syria you are calling them what they actually strive to be, an ethnostate for a minority.
Kurd here, the west should support the Kurds and remove the Sykes-Picot borders that separated Kurdish families.
You always forget that It is called Turkiye not Turkey. For a professor i think, still calling Turkey is embarrassing
Lots of countries have endonyms. It’s not a mark of ignorance to use them. Turkey has been called that name for centuries.
Turkey or Chicken , potato potato lol😅😂
@@capncake8837 Exonyms* An endonym is the name used by a people to refer to themselves.
Why do you think anyone could tell another to change names or terms in their respective language? Neither Erdogan nor the Turkish government has any mandate over other languages.
The name change is stupid, and if it triggers Turks and Erdogan that their country is the name of a bird, we must use it even more.
There’s no Syrian Kurdistan. Assad didn’t even give Kurds passports. Kurds are less than 2 million, compared to Turkmens and Arabs who are much bigger . U.S. and Israel wanted to give 40% of the Syrian lands to Kurds, who are only comprising 7% of the population …
thanks for pointing this out! Also the area is given to Kurds are the best part of Syria in terms of oil and agricultural sources.... Half of the reason Esad is gone that Kurds (USA) hold the economical power and regime was weaken with no money...
their numbers became smaller due to ethnic cleansing tho
@@delibaba_1923kurdistan will be independent
There is no legal land named Kurdistan in the world. By the fact, Syrian Kurds are a minor group in the state. If you form a state called Kurdistan, you can give land in your country to this pure people :)
I have to say that this was a very lazy analysis of the situation in Syria regarding the SDF ("The Kurds") and the the Turks. I'd like to remind you that there are many Kurdish people serving in the current Turkish government, like Hakan Fiden, the Turkish foreign minister. You seemed to have failed to mention a great deal of important and very relevant information.. For example, back in 2011 during the Arab Spring, the US was backing Turkish mercenaries, in order to over throw the Syrian government, this changed when the US suddenly decided to start backing the SDF instead. The SDF were previously known as the YPG, which is connected to the PKK. The PKK, which i am sure you already know is listed on Turkiye's, US, UK and EU terrorist list. So we have a situation in which the US/UK and EU are funding and arming a proscribed terrorist group that is listed as such by their own governments. Please watch this video by General Raymond Thomas, the commander of the U. S. Special Operations Command, explains rebranding YPG away from the terror group PKK. ruclips.net/video/cHpaIO-Pj10/видео.html
_“Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.”_
Chamberlain, Chamberlain, Chamberlain.
Would England let Scots, Welsh and Irish have their independent Countries? No chance!
No-one likes their country to be divided.
they already have their atonomy.do u know what is meaning UK? "United Kingdom" means there are several independent autonomy. dont u know right now a country exist named "Ireland"?
@@osyahaci dude they already have a form of independence. Turkey’s situation is vastly different
The Irish literally have an independent country, they’ve had it for like, over a century at this point… and England allowed Scotland to hold several independence referendum’s but the Scots decided they wanted to stay. The British have openly stated that if part of their country wants to leave it is allowed to do it but no one has wanted to leave for quite some time. The Falkland’s and Gibraltar also hold independence/ unification with a neighboring Spanish speaking nation votes from time to time and every time they decide to stay British.
Is England prohibiting the identity and language of Scotts. Please do not compare a middle east country with a western democratic country. You look very ridiculous.
You are comparing the Union of the British Isles with the artifice known as 'Syria'?
You call yourself a prof?
Where did you get your information?
Before you make a content like this do your homework righteous and correctly.
If you didn't know there is no such as kurdistan.
I want see your reaction when i claim a land that is yours.
It's always easy talk and give a biased opinion if you're not involved.
"no such thing as Kurdistan" where is your proof then 🤣
کوردستان در قلب کورد هاست 50درصد ترکیه و 25درصد عراق و 15درصد سوریه و 25درصد ایران را در اختیار دارند
ترک بی هویت است و هویت جعلی دارد
There is no Syrian Kurdistan... Syria is one piece..US gave 40% of Syria to YPG including oil and water rich places..this is not fair.. .. talk about Israel invasion, not Turkey..
thank you for this great video
So called “Kurdistan” does not exist. That land is in Turkish hands for 1000 years since the Ottomans entered Anatolia in 1071. Turkey will never let its land to be taken away and partitioned. Also Kurds killed tens of thousands of Turkish people through terrorist attacks. This video failed to explain all that. Turkey has a right to defend itself.
Kurdistan ist die Sonne und versteckt sich nicht❤
@@barzankhorshidsawar1979 dalyrk kardes irakta ozerk kurdistan var. sktr gt orada yasa. tutan mi var?
Kurds have lived on that land thousands of years before 1071. DO you think history in this area began when Turks arrived? lol
@@Sassannid So what? do you think history started when kurds arrived. There is always ''before''
@@Sassannid also prove the point that ''kurds lived on that land thousands of years before 1071''
I assume even adam and eve are kurdish lol
Stop portraying the Turks as invaders, the Kurds never had a state. The Turks took those lands by fighting the Byzantines, not the Kurds. Before Byzantium there was Rome. Before Rome, Anatolia had its own civilizations like the Hittites and Urartians, but there was never a Kurdish state.america's goal is not to give a state to the Kurds, but to divide the Middle East and put a watchdog state in the oil fields.
@@TÜRKÇÜ_ASKER its Arab land
@@مجتهد-خ2ف I'm not talking about Syria, I said it about Anatolia. Syria belongs to the Arabs. Likewise, the Kurds did not establish a state there.
Kurds originate from Zagros region in Iran. Sultan Yavuz brought them to Anatolia.
Medes was the Kurdish state. To be more precise, it's both the Kurdish and Balochi state, those two nationalities go back to the Medeans because the Medean language turned into the Kurdish and Balochi languages.
@@stevenfallinge7149 The fact that the Medes are Kurds is nothing more than an allegation, it is just bullshit made up by the Kurds to find ancestors for themselves.
My friend, your findings are a complete fiasco. There are millions of Kurds living in Turkey, I am Turkish, my closest friends are Kurds, there is no such problem in Turkey, you are describing terrorist organizations (PKK, YPG) as Kurdish groups, which everyone accepts as terrorist organizations. The USA is trying to legitimize them with the excuse of fighting ISIS. The Turkish state mind is aware of everything and gives the necessary response and supports the territorial integrity of Syria.
"There is a guy who says he is italian. This is an answer to him. I saw Turkish soldiers wearing PKK dresses and killed people to let people think the PKK is attacking the civilians however such things was made by the government of Turkey many many times. And yes Pkk and the Kurds are the same. Some of the Kurds were assimilated and now they may feel comfortable and maybe they lost their hopes and changed their way. Those lost kurds are not allowed to talk about the current situation and Kurds' needs."
Dear Prof, I think it is a first time that your analyse is not well calculated. Turkey is not planning to attack Syrian Kurds. Its focus is only on marxist lenninist kurdish terror organization PKK (in Syria its name is PYD). When you say it's planning to attack to a nation, we should understand that there must be a risk of heavy civil casualities or brutal war crimes. But at here we are talking about nations (Turks, Kurds and Arabs) living together hundreds of years at same country. So in short term, its a fight against to a terror otganization. We could give many examples from your country's history or any of the other countries, but i think at least it is enough for now. Only I wish you could look from a Turkish perspective to these events, or any muslim nation perspectives, not a western nor marxist view.
Dear James,
I wanted to share an observation regarding the framing and terminology used in your recent discussions, as I believe it could enhance the clarity and balance of your videos.
In your coverage of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, you accurately distinguished between the actions of Hamas as a terrorist organization and the broader Palestinian population. This distinction is crucial as it avoids generalizing an entire group and helps focus on the actors directly responsible for specific actions. However, in your recent video on the Türkiye-SDF conflict, you referred to Türkiye’s actions as attacks on "the Kurds," rather than specifying groups like the SDF or PKK, which Türkiye considers terrorist organizations.
While the Kurdish population indeed has a central role in this conflict, the use of "Kurds" as a blanket term risks conflating a diverse ethnic group with specific entities engaged in armed conflict. This is particularly relevant when contrasting it with how you carefully differentiated between Hamas and Palestinians in the Israel-Palestinian context.
Moreover, this framing reflects a broader tendency often observed in Western media, where U.S.-aligned groups, such as the SDF, are frequently portrayed more favorably than groups or actors considered adversarial. Such discrepancies in terminology and framing not only influence public perceptions but can also detract from an objective understanding of the conflict.
While this tendency is not uncommon, it ultimately undermines the credibility of the West, which has already deteriorated significantly in recent years. These double standards contribute to further instability in the global order and fuel conflicts, eroding trust in international norms and human rights advocacy.
I urge you to maintain a high level of professionalism and credibility in your analyses. As a respected expert in international relations, your words carry significant weight, and imbalances in your framing risk contributing to the broader deterioration of trust in international relations and human rights discourse.
Thank you for considering this feedback. I hope it proves helpful in refining your already valuable and insightful content.
As a turkish kurd I support Turkey.
SHAME ON YOU!!!
@kikitheoharidou1438 for what???
🔴 Unfortunately, you were not neutral in this issue, but you were on the side of an illegal organization against a NATO country, but in a soft way so as not to appear that you are against Turkey, and this is unfair and incorrect. You forgot the large number of Turkish civilians who were treacherously killed by this organization over many years. I wish you success in your endeavor in a neutral manner and do not take the side of the aggressor.
No, I was not on any side. I just wasn’t uncritically on the Turkish side. There’s a huge difference.
Very naive or deliberately disinforming to call them "Kurds".
Kurdish people are our brothers.
Pkk is funded by usa and eu, they are not representing the rights of kurdish people.
Anyone who trying to divide our homeland will pay the price.
This is the difference between you and us.
We fight to stay alive, you fight to steal resources.
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Why help for the Kurds and not for other minorities or all Syrians??
The Kurds get already more help than all others,
year by year millions over millions of $ for weapons.
Never seen a hospital or school build by US or EU in Syria or around.
güzel soru. cevap bizce biliniyor. çünkü abd avrupa terörist gruplar destekler ülkeleri parçalamaya çalışır.
think about why several arab and turkman minority in syria join Kurds.the only thing that turks never can do is to let go of racism and fascism
@@SJA-mh2uz You dont follow the news? More and more minorities between the Kurds leave them, because they are not happy with them
Turk being Turk 🦃🦃🦃
Those areas are not kurdish areas theyre majority arab under kurdish occupation.Stop being biased.
It’s you being biased
How did those areas become majority Arab?
Ethnic cleansing.
Afrin is majority kurdish, your country invaded it and immediately started looting and destroying kurdish cultural sites
Thanks for your sharing man
It appears that you are attempting to create a narrative that, should Israel continue its occupations or if a potential military operation by Turkey leads to a confrontation between Turkish and Israeli forces in Syria, Turkey's reputation would be tarnished in the international media. This demonstrates how biased your perspective is as someone who does not understand the just cause of Turkey, nor the cultural and regional dynamics of the Middle East, and highlights that you are more focused on protecting the interests of certain groups rather than fostering the development of international relations.
Turkey has never harbored hostility toward the Kurdish people. As someone born in Turkey and now living in Europe, I share a peaceful and common history with my Kurdish brothers and sisters, including my childhood friends. However, your persistent use of phrases like "Turks are oppressing Kurds" or "Turkey is preparing an attack on the Kurds" clearly illustrates how biased your political stance is and how you are attempting to manipulate perceptions.
Turkey has no issues with the Kurdish people. Turkey has no problems with anyone who respects its territorial integrity. The issue Turkey faces lies with the PKK. However, the PKK is not an organization as you describe; it is an armed terrorist group that has also oppressed Kurdish-origin citizens living in Turkey. To achieve its goals, the PKK has burned forests for years, detonated bombs in public places, and caused the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians. It has mercilessly massacred many Kurdish-origin Turkish citizens, including their babies and families, in the eastern regions.
In the past, Turkey initiated a peace process to address these issues. However, this process was disrupted after the PKK murdered two Turkish police officers in their sleep during the peace negotiations. Countries like the United States, Israel, and the United Kingdom, acting in pursuit of their own interests, attempted to create a narrative through European and American media. By collaborating with individuals claiming to serve impartial causes, they sought to portray Turkey as the party that disrupted the peace process. These attempts, however, were unsuccessful.
Now, individuals like you, perhaps trying to appear favorable to certain circles, are attempting to create a perception that "Turks are oppressing Kurds" or "Turks are eradicating Kurds." This is entirely false. It is perfectly reasonable for leaders like Trump and many European officials to seek withdrawal from the Middle East due to immigration issues and economic reasons. However, it might be disappointing for the institutions or groups you serve that resources in these regions cannot be exploited. I kindly suggest that you focus on your own issues.
Syria belongs to Syrians. Turks are certainly not enemies of Kurds. The YPG/PYD-PKK groups are not freedom fighters for the Kurdish nation but bloody terrorist organizations. The Kurdish people are a much greater and more significant nation than these groups or organizations.
I’m not trying to create any sort of narrative. I am trying to explain a situation, clearly and understandably, to outside audiences. What am finding is that because I am not saying it exactly as many viewers in Turkey would like, I must have some sort of anti-Turkish/pro-Kurdish position. This is the real issue. It’s not my bias, it’s the perception of bias because I don’t conform to the bias of a section of viewers.
When discussing “Türkiye and the Kurds,” it’s important to consider the relationship between Ankara and Iraqi Kurdistan (Barzani). Türkiye played a crucial role in establishing an autonomous Kurdistan within Iraq, providing full support to its leader, who even received a diplomatic Turkish passport.
Therefore, it’s not accurate to frame the situation in Syria as “Turks vs. Kurds.” Türkiye is engaged in conflict with the US-backed PYD/YPG/SDF, which are essentially branches of the PKK. This fact is acknowledged by various US institutions, the EU, Russia, and Iran knows it and you know it too... The conflict is fundamentally between the PKK and Türkiye, and it’s unproductive to pretend otherwise.
Thanks. But if you watched video again, I clearly mention the complex relationship between Turkey and the KRG and show pictures of Erdogan visiting Erbil and meeting senior Kurdish leaders, with a Kurdish flag in the picture.
@@JamesKerLindsay Yeah you mention that briefly and still create a false Turks vs Kurds narative. We both know you put your feelins and biased to your work. So much biase and nonsense...
as an Azerbaiyani Kurd I support Turkey.
@@s871-c1q Millions of Kurds living in Turkiye supports their goverment. Your clown media never shows it bec it doesnt fit your "narrative".
Biji Türkiye!
Gahba
@@Isowlaite Nice to meet you gahba! We are Turks and Kurds!
you are not a kurd! maybe a turk hahaha
Türkiye's population is approximately 85 million and 30 million of this population are Sunni Kurds, Turks and Kurds living in Türkiye for centuries and in every Turkish families have ties with Kurdish families by marriages so Türkiye and Kurds can never be enemies because they have bond to each other, no one can separate those ties that's impossible, pkk and ypg they are not Kurdish, they are terrorist groups from different countries. Your speech misleading your followers, you must spoke out what the reality is.....
Yeah, sure, Erdogan's media in Turkey definitely helps some people see things... or, well, not see things at all. But hey, no offense, right?
30 million? The last time i checked they were saying that it's somewhere between 15-20 million. It keeps rising everyday somehow. According to you half of Turkey's population is Kurdish
@ yup Kurds are above 30 million the figure 15 to 20 million was 20 years ago now it’s twice that much if not more
@@Ceilingfan-r8m Sure, double that. Kurd means non-Persian. Almost all humanity are Kurdish.
@@almazchati4178 long live the noble Kurds
You are engaging in biased journalism. First and foremost, Türkiye has no issue or problem with Kurds. Within Türkiye, there are thousands of Kurds with whom we live as brothers and sisters. They enjoy the same rights as all other Turkish citizens, and they even have a political party represented in parliament.
The Turks ruled over this region for centuries during the Ottoman Empire. When the Ottoman Empire fell after World War I, the Allied Powers attempted to confine the Turks to a small area, dividing Anatolia-Turkish land for thousands of years-among themselves. However, the Turkish people, unwilling to accept this, resisted through the War of Independence, a monumental struggle in which tens of thousands were martyred. We reclaimed our homeland and established our nation under the Republic of Türkiye, founded on secular principles and a just system of governance.
Our land is precious to us, and under no circumstances should anyone attempt to divide it again. Türkiye is simply defending its borders and doing nothing more. Furthermore, the so-called Kurdish regime in Syria, referred to as the YPG, is nothing more than a branch of the PKK-a group you call a Kurdish party but fail to identify as a terrorist organization. The PKK is recognized as a terrorist organization by nearly all countries around the world. You cannot distort these facts.
Even if Türkiye conducts a military operation, it would never target civilians like Israel; it would focus solely on the regime. The YPG’s goal is to first dismantle Syria’s territorial integrity and then seek to claim land from Türkiye. Why are you so eager to see other countries’ territories divided? If you’re so enthusiastic about this idea, perhaps you could donate a part of your own land to the so-called “Kurdistan state.”
I’m starting to feel that you might hold a predetermined opinion against Turks, Türkiye, or both.
1. You mentioned the PKK but failed to highlight that they are widely recognized as a terrorist group around the world.
2. While you discussed their support from Russia, you did not mention the backing they receive from one of the most terrorism-supportive governments in the world, Iran.
The SDF, which controls regions in Syria, has forcibly displaced more than 10 millions of Syrian Arabs from their lands and homes, which close to 5 million of them has fled the country to save their lives. Now, these displaced individuals have the opportunity to return and reclaim their lands and properties.
People will always see bias when they want to see it. I’ve worked on Turkey for over thirty years. I know the country well. But I do have my concerned about Erdogan’s foreign policy, as do many others within Turkey and abroad. But I certainly have no ill-will towards the country or people.
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As you mentioned, people will always perceive bias when they want to see it. I am not a strong supporter of Erdoğan, but his actions against terrorist groups who rely solely on violence and killing to achieve their goals should not be unjustly criticized.
Take the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) as an example. They have been supported by Russia, a country invading Ukraine and targeting civilians; by Iran, one of the most oppressive regimes in the world; by Assad, another notorious dictator; and now by Israel, responsible for the tragic deaths of over 17,000 children in Gaza.
Yet, somehow, it is Turkey and Erdoğan who are consistently blamed. Is this fair, or is there more to the story?
Your words romanticizing a terrorist PKK and confusing Kurds and PKK/PYD are troubling.
What’s troubling is how Turkey has a lower press freedom ranking than even Russia, have you ever considered how this affects what you think Murat?
It’s hard to give credibility to Erdogan’s claims, no matter how legitimate they might be. Stating that terrorist groups like the PKK shouldn’t be given shelter, while he hosts Hamas that is holding Americans hostage.
Spot the turk
Spot the 'euro-pan'.
Bilerek yapıyorlar.
I can see lots of hatred from some low informed people about Kurdish Nation and our issue. Let me make it clear, we never entered Iraq, Iran, Syria or turkey as refugees, we were on that land and geography before turks and Arabs thousands of years, the took over our land after Sykes peakok agreement that diveded Kurdistan into 4 parts. Well, for the new non kurdish generation of these 4 countries it might be hard to go back a 100 years and understand the present because they have not suffered or alienated or isolated and discriminated against through out all these years, but we kurds have lived in that hell and are still burning. Let me make something clear, if all the world turns its back on us, if there is only one little Kurdish child left in the world, Kurdistan is one and will be free.
Now, if our brothers and sisters in Syria let us have our local government, there is a chance for kurds to feel home and build the new Syria, but in case they lower their standards and go hand in hand with erdoğan (who has kurdofobia) internal war will break out, and trust me it is going to bring an enormously pain and pity to the people of Syria and it might go over the border to turkey.
Just want to correct a mistake. There is a considerable amount of Kurdish people living in Azerbaijan. So, Kurds spread over 6 countries instead of 5.
Thanks. Azerbaijan isn’t usually included in lists of Kurdish areas, but you’re right. Maybe it’s because they are considered “indigenous”, but moved there. The question is how long since moving anywhere makes one indigenous. A whole different and controversial topic, especially in that region! 🙂
These are regions where the Arabs, who are the real owners of the region, are oppressed by the Kurds, even though they are a very small minority with the power of America behind them. The definition of the Kurdish regions is wrong. And eventually we will all see that the Arabs will no longer accept this and the Kurds will never be able to govern these regions. Europe and America are disconnected from reality.
Does that mean that in areas where the Kurds are a majority you support their aspirations for autonomy or even self rule? As you are basing your argument on the will of the majority in an area.
@@nigelgarrett7970 How do you define the region? I define it as a country. If you support the establishment of a country because a community is the majority in a neighborhood or a district or a province, that is naivety to say the least. And yes, I realize you asked the question in reference to Turkey. Be assured, the maps of the Kurdish regions you see on the internet are completely far from reality.
@@barboist And how do you define a country? They are far more artificial than regions, who often have geographic features to define boundaries.
There have been 34 new countries since 1990.
Mmm. So oppressed that they have a democratic Federalism model, where they are given large degree of control over their local area.
Stop with the lies
Many of the Arabs are quite happy to live in this area. They have got local autonomy. In 2019 they have fought alongside the Kurds and a few days ago the Manbij Military Council forces, mostly Arabs, have fought hard against the SNA.
The analysis here is oversimplified and cliche like most reports on this topic over the last decade or more, but that's probably the aim.
In international broadcasts there is constantly the aim to depict the picture that the Turks are fighting the Kurds! This is absolutely false! Not all of the YPG consists of Kurds and not all Kurds are Supporting YPG! Therefore we know what you guys are trying to do but we aren’t going to allow it!
Phd in world Affairs. You've must have missed a few classes along the way!
Therre is no Kurdistan. It is just a part of Syria
There is a Kurdistan and you can cry about it
Turks never wanted to invasion . 3 million Kurds lives in Syria. And 2-3 million Turks lives there . And other ethnicities… all Syria 30 million and Kurds keeping %35 of Syria only 3 million Kurds control %30 oy Syria u think this is justice???james come on ur just doing demagoguery
There is no Kurdistan show me the passport of Kurdistan there is no country that have a name like Kurdistan
Talking about the history of the rebels of kurds in Türkiye but not even a bit info about the so called protests which are against human rights and you did not mentioned PKK is accepted as a terrorist group among EU and US, SDF is also coming from the roots of PKK . Moreover, all the firepower comes from north Syria and north Iraq. When you consider these aspects of the matter it will be understandable for Türkiye to act like this even though it cannot be said that is totally right thing to do.
I was expecting more of a objective approach.
You sound a bit biased
@@european-one or maybe your info channels are from similar type of people which makes me sound biased
@@european-oneI think you are the one who is prejudiced, but you are too arrogant to see it and you accuse others of being prejudiced. The fact that you write similar things under the comments of everyone who has the opposite opinion proves this. You do not respect anyone's opinion, you do not respect anyone! You are selfish enough to try to impose your own opinion on everyone
@@Mali_58-n2c you have been spamming there is no such thing as Kurdistan? Hypocrite?
You are too arrogant to see it.You don't respect anyone's opinion, you don't respect anybody, etc etc, blah blah blah
@european-one Leave the affairs of the middle east to middle easterners you don't see us coming in and commenting about Irish unification or Catalan or Bavarian secessionism do you european-one?