I am just SHOCKED AND AMAZED how all western peoples minds are controlled by media just as in Turkey. I see how we Turks have been overestimating you peoples intellectual accumulation for all these years.
Turkeys media is obviously biased too probably even more but we the ''Kemalist Turks''(30% of Turkey, making up the educated lamel) the opposition of government at least learnt to reach to the truths in a way or another.
Just watch this video, a man(Lindsey Graham) just two days ago made this threat
If Turkey moves into northern Syria, sanctions from hell – by Congress – will follow.
Wide, deep, and devastating sanctions.
said these in 2015 :
Many known Kurds even those from opposition side have been sending their spiritual support via social media since the whole thing have escalated.
Calling YPG not a terrorist organisation is just a crime against humanity.
Slandering innocents of horrific crimes is a crime against humanity. I dont know your cultures but this is how we are taught while being raised in Turkey.
We are sick of terrorists sending suicide bombs to our cities, we are sick of young 20 years old women teachers getting killed because they are ''ambassadors of Turkification'' in southeast Anatolia.
No matter how much you cry, we the Turks, with our opposition and goverment, with our hate and love for each other, putting aside our differences and conflicts are 101% behind our Turkish army.
I am an atheist, Kemalist, Erdogan and islam hating, well educated( Istanbul University: Faculty of Dentistry) young Turkish man can confirm you that.
I am just shocked that you people still naively believe in your governments actually caring for a middle eastern, islamic nation's well being and even independence.
Have you really manage to convince yourselves to these lies ?
Truth:
Iran and USA are in a jeopolitical war over patrol. At the moment Iran can anytime occupy the gulf and cut the patrol stream. USA therefore wants the Kurdish corridor. THATS WHY the corridor opening to MEDITERRANIAN was so important. AFRIN was BECAUSE OF THIS so important. Afrin was the mediterranian gate for the so called kurdistan.
A country that has hostilities with all of its neighbours, bound to USA by chest, connected to mediterranian and close to all patrol zones.
One more profit: An additional friend to Israel in middle east.
So, you ''INDEPENDENT'' Kurdistan if ''hopefully never'' ever happens, the local population of that country will live even more pathetic. Yes, it is not always a good thing for every ethnicity to get their own country. As long as they preserve their culture, language, self identity it is better.
Now is Turkey completely innocent ? Of course not. Turkey indeed tried to Turkify Kurds.
But some of those accusations you do are NOT FAIR !!!
For example: Kurds being mountain Turks. Yes, this was claimed in the first years of our republic. Because guess what ? The powers of that day were trying to provoke a civil war as hard as they could and this was simply a state reflex.
Do any of you know Sheikh Said ? After Turkish War of Sovereignity, most of the lands Turkish national movement had claims on became part of Turkey. Except Hatay, Syria and Mosul, Kirkuk; Iraq. Hatay joined Turkey in 1939 and this is seen as the last diplomatical victory of Atatürk one year after he passed away.
Mosul and Kirkuk though ? We lost them because a Kurdish man called Sheikh Said(whomlater to be confirmed a British spy according to American CIA archives btw), rebelled crying ''we are losing our religion !!!'' ''Infidel state !!!'' ''WHERE IS SHARIA LAW ?!?!'' and many sharia law supporters, islamists joined and a great revolt took place.
Because of this rebellion while dealing with this, we werent able to pay enough attention to Kirkuk and Mosul and we lost them. As you can see from this example nationalism on Kurds didnt work back then.
According to Islam, nationalism is a huge sin. One is either Muslim or not. Kuffar is one nation, Muslim is one nation. Splitting a country because of nation is a huge sin.
So, even today, majority of the Kurds WHO are SHAFI(THE HARSHEST SECT OF SUNNI ISLAM) look at PKK, YPG etc as infidels. Thats why Sheikh Said had to go for RELIGION over Kurdishness.
Still, England and French back in the day; USA today always tried to create a nationalism wave among Kurds and believe me they still failed. Want a proof ? Today 15 million of 80 million Turkey are Kurds, if they even went for a passive resistence they would deal a great problem.
Even this Kurds being leftist, looking women equal and etc stuff. Believe me we are laughing our asses off to these claims in Turkey. Kurds are a typical middle eastern people and they are Shafi, the harshest sect of Sunni, probably entire Islam.
I am from paternal side an Afshar Turkmen from Diyarbakır(yeah there are Turks in there too) just like Nader Shah of Afshar Empire. We were Qizilbash/Alevi. It is basically Islam modified for nomadic lifestyle of Turks. It is a composition of Islam and Tengrism. We used to dance with our women and men holding hands together whereas Kurds seieing this would despise us saying ''Kizilbash after all''. In their weddings women and men would form to seperate groups and dance like that.
So western medias efforts to show them as ''secular by culture'' ''mostly leftists(LMAOOO)'' is first hilariously then scaringly viewed by us, people of Turkey, even Kurds themselves.
Now Turkey supporting jihadists whereas PKK/YPG destroying them…
Erdogan indeed helped jihadists.
But what you dont get is that Erdogan at that time was USA's dog. Whatever Turkey did, because USA wanted it.
We trained jihadists in Mardin, Turkey. Because they were going to destabilize Syria, because USA wanted this. Obviously destabilizing our neighbour didnt work out well for us. We today have 5 million Syrian refugees and they are destroying our demographics, economy, revokeing dead diseases etc. Why did we do it then ? Because USA demanded it, simple as that.
USA wants to destroy Syria, the Esad rejime, there is no doubt in that, just like they did to Iraq. Esad is a piece of **** himself but USA still had no rights to intervene so some of the accusations were made up by USA.
Before denying, remember Saddam's nukes ? Same story. Seriously did they ever find any nukes ?
Why does USA want to destroy Syria ? To open Kurdish corridor in middle east. Is it because USA loves the two eyebrows of Kurds ? No. It is a jeopolitical-patrol war between Iran and USA. Today Iran can be a threat to USA if they occupy the gulf and stop all the petrol flow. But if that corridor gets opened, it wont matter. ALL THE THINGS ARE SIMPLE AS THAT. If USA opens that corridor, that would be so called ''independent'' Kurdistan will actually be USA's puppet state and USA will use it for its geopolitical patrol war against Iran. On top of that Kurdistan will be Israel's only trustworthy ally in middle east.
In 2016, USA tried to unplug Erdogan and thats why actually he got closer to Russia. He is still bound to USA so he has to cooperate but he is doing his best to get closer to Russia to stay at power.
About that coup attempt. I know you people are calling it fake and yes it is kind of fake but again it isnt that simple.
There were well known Gulenists in the army. Erdogan over years worked closely with them when he was USA's dog. Ergenekon and Balyoz suits were plots to remove the patriotic Turkish high rank soldiers from the army. Erdogan gave his full support to these plots and many patriotic Turkish soldiers were thrown at jails and were replaced with pro-USA Gulenists.
Before 15 July 2016 Russia warned Erdogan about this and Erdogan despite knowing this, didnt do anything and actually used this in his advantage and increased his votes. Those soldiers were going to b judged and because they knew that, they made a desperate attempt. So it was like a vaccine, he used it to get more powerful.
All those patriotic soldiers that were thrown in jail due to Ergenekon and Balyoz suits were apologised and their ranks were given back and now the Gulenist ones are in jail.
Those Gulenist soldiers were for years torturing any military student who werent one of them so that they quit and in Turkey both earning the right to join that schools(Erdogan government for years gave the university questions to gulenists and many dumb gulenist kids did full results, some of them actually became confessors on facebook(they knew the questions of exams that didnt take place yet right), none of the lawyers for years went onto it, because...Turkey) and also having to pay huge sums of compensation to government for quitting them(so much money that their families sold houses(those who had)) so many of those ex students suicided.
Turkey is a **** up country because of its geopolitical location and our economy is also making life soo hard to live while superpowers constantly play with our economy because it is so dependent outside because we always had crappy governments who were underdogs of superpowers. I mean superpower, USA.