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Israel Kurdish Strategy and the Northern Iran Corridor

How Israel’s historic Kurdish ties create strategic pressure on Iran Israel’s Kurdish strategy did not begin as ideology. It began as geography. In the 1960s, Israel quietly supported Kurdish forces in northern Iraq. Today, that same geography places Israeli strategic interests along Iran’s western frontier. The mountains did not move. The balance of power did. The Origins of Israel’s Kurdish…

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The Causes & Consequences of Syria’s Rapid Dismantlement of Kurdish Autonomy - LewRockwell

The consolidation of Turkish influence over Syria strengthens the regional position of the military bloc that’s forming within the Ummah and

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Turkey's Political Leader Offers Unexpected Deal to Abdullah Ocalan

Unexpected Offer from Turkey’s Political Leader This week, a surprising development emerged in Turkey as one of the country’s most influential politicians extended a notable offer to Abdullah Ocalan, a figure he has long labeled as a “baby killer” and the “chief terrorist.” Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (P.K.K.), which has been at the forefront of the struggle for greater…

Turkey's Political Leader Offers Unexpected Deal to Abdullah Ocalan

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BEIRUT (AP) — Last month, while the world's attention was focused on battles raging in Syria's two largest cities, a quiet transformation was taking place in the country's oil-rich northeast where about 2 million minority Kurds live.

In mid-July, regime forces began pulling back from several towns and villages near the Turkish border. They ceded de facto control to armed Kurdish fighters who have since set up checkpoints, hoisted Kurdish flags, and began exercising a degree of autonomy unheard of before.

It is an extraordinary development for a community that has long been oppressed and discriminated against by the Assad regime, one that threatens to upset a decades-long geopolitical balance involving Syria, Turkey and Iraq, and challenge old regional alliances.

"The Kurds are emerging as one of the major winners of the crisis in Syria," said Fawaz A. Gerges, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics. "They have begun laying the foundation for an autonomous region like their counterparts in Iraq. It's a dream-like situation for them."

Kurds see their chance to win the kind of autonomy that their ethnic brothers enjoy in Iraq. But this raises alarm bells for Turkey, one of the key state backers of the rebels trying to overthrow President Bashar Assad and a country where Kurdish rebels have been fighting a violent struggle for self-rule for the last 28 years.

Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Syria-war-empowers-long-oppressed-Kurdish-minority-3801504.php#ixzz24DWv8EHc