Source: Asia Times:
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan suggested last weekend that the country’s ongoing operation to cut out a swash of Kurdish-dominated Syrian territory could stop short of the northeast, in contrast to recent proclamations.
Those remarks, along with Ankara’s immediate public support for US-led airstrikes on targets linked to the Russia-backed Bashar al-Assad regime, point to a rapprochement of sorts with Washington, according to Cahit Armagan Dilek, head of the Ankara-based 21 st Century Turkey Institute.
Turkey has already announced “full control” over previously Kurdish-held land in the northwest, and top Turkish officials have been threatening that the campaign would continue into the northeast. That would see Turkish-backed forces confront US military assets that are stationed in support of forces opposed to the al-Assad regime, including the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG). But Erdogan’s comments indicate a reversal.
“All signs indicate that Ankara will again pursue policies that are in line with the United States in Syria,” Hasan Koni, a professor of international law at Istanbul Kultur University was paraphrased by Xinhua as saying.
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In effect, the bargain would be to sell out Kurds outside of Syria, in exchange for creating a state-like Kurdish entity in Northeastern Syria.
“Such moves by the United States would make it easier for the Erdogan administration to accept US plans regarding Kurdish-controlled areas in northern Syria,”
Seems logical bargaining point. After all Trump is a good and successful businessman knows well how to win clients. As long Muslim blood flows US has no problem so let it be that way.
Unfortunately Trump was not all that good a business man. His tactic of declaring bankruptcy and cheating the tax authorities will not work in politics, I feel.