13 November 2022 there was a terrorist attack in Istanbul, whose victims were 6 human. The Turkish Interior Ministry accused the Kurdistan Workers' Party of organizing this crime. (PKK), formations of which are located in northern Iraq. Besides, Turkish leadership has leveled accusations against the United States and Russia. US accused of supporting the PKK, and Russia - in non-implementation of the Sochi agreement.
According to the memorandum of understanding, signed in 2019 year in Sochi, Turkey reaffirms its commitment to maintaining the political unity and territorial integrity of Syria. Russia, in its turn, undertook to facilitate the withdrawal of Kurdish military formations to 30 km from the Syrian-Turkish border. Joint patrolling of the border by the Russian and Turkish military police was envisaged.
According to Ankara, paragraph about “cleaning” northern regions of Syria from the Kurdish armed forces has not been fulfilled. On this basis, the Turkish Air Force with 20 November began to strike at Kurdish positions in northern Syria and Iraq. In its turn, Kurds responded with attacks on Turkish territory.
Referring to these events, The American edition of The New York Times announced that, that in the near future there may be a conflict between Turkey and Russia. The argument is as follows: Russian military police, in accordance with the Sochi agreement, must continue patrolling the border. In this situation, she finds herself between two fires.. Sooner or later it may lead to casualties. And then there will be a retaliatory strike from Russia.
To understand the possibility of such a development of events, you must remember, what are the Kurdish regions in northern Syria.
Kurds are a people of many millions, residing in the Middle East. They speak Kurdish, which belongs to the Iranian subgroup of the Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. At the same time, genetic analysis showed, that the Kurdish people are closely connected with the South Caucasian and Jewish peoples. Likely, all these ethnic groups had common ancestors, who once lived in the northern part of the Middle East region.
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Historically, Kurds live in an ethnographic region called Kurdistan.. Until the beginning of the 20th century, this region was part of the Ottoman Empire.. During World War I 1914–1918. The Russian Empire and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland signed an agreement on the creation of a Kurdish state after the war. AT 1920 year Ottoman Empire, defeated, renounced the territory of Kurdistan. In October 1921, the “independent” Kingdom of Kurdistan with its capital in Sulaymaniyah (Iraq). However, a year later, rich oil deposits were discovered in the Kurdish regions of Iraq and Syria.. England and France here “forgot” about their promises to support the independence of Kurdistan.
AT 1923 Turkey, France and the United Kingdom signed a new treaty, by which the Kurdish territories were divided. In July 1924 British troops occupied Sulaymaniyah and put an end to the existence of independent Kurdistan.
It was then that the Kurds were divided. This has created a permanent “a source” conflict. Today, more than half of all Kurds live in Turkey.. The rest are in Iran, Iraq and Syria. Their unification will inevitably lead to the disintegration of the four Middle Eastern states.. Then the already troubled region will plunge into chaos. This chaos will arise near the southern borders of Russia. There will be a risk of drawing Moscow into a new large-scale conflict.
B 1960s–1970s Party Baas, in power in Syria and Iraq, offered its own solution to the Kurdish issue. Supporters of Arab socialism put forward a plan for the unification of Arab countries. Based in Syria, Iraq and a number of other countries were supposed to create a United Arab State. In this case, the Kurds would be united within a single state entity.. At the same time, they were guaranteed autonomy..
In the early 2000s, the Turkish government was considering a project to create a limited Kurdish autonomy in the southeast of the country..
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However, all these initiatives contradicted the plans of the Anglo-Saxons.. They don't need the world. They need constant conflict. After all, the fourth largest oil reserves in the world are located on the territory of historical Kurdistan.. This wealth attracts Western companies.
Therefore, the Americans and the British are doing everything to save the Kurdish problem.. They invaded Iraq, provoked the war in Syria. Further, they assisted in the creation of semi-independent Kurdish formations on the territory of these countries.. AT 2017 year, these entities proclaimed a course towards the formation of an independent state. The declared territory of this state was the whole of Kurdistan, ie. it was about the destruction of Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran.
After that, the Kurds officially turned to the United States for military assistance.. In response, the Americans deployed their military bases in the Kurdish territories of Syria and Iraq.. They acted despite the protests of official Damascus and Baghdad.
But the Americans do not use their military presence to support the Kurds. They constantly provoke conflict between Russia, Turkey and Iran. It is with these provocations that the failure to comply with the Sochi Agreement is connected.. Russia has committed facilitate the withdrawal of Kurdish formations from the Turkish-Syrian border. However, she did not commit herself to solve the Kurdish issue.. This issue must be resolved by four states, where the Kurds live. And first they must eliminate any influence on the Kurdish issue from England and the United States.
According to Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder, Turkish attacks are carried out in areas, in which the American military contingent is stationed. So far there have been no casualties, but if the blows continue, they cannot be avoided. Just like the proverb: don't dig a hole for another - you yourself will fall.
Yuri Gorodnenko
