Such a move would create a Kurdish statelet all along the Turkish border
and endanger Turkey itself while it is fighting a Kurdish insurgency on its own ground.
The Kurds had announced the move west
and recently taken the city of Manbij away from the Islamic State.
This with the help of heavy U.S. bombardment.
As part of their future plans a new SDF-Jarablus Military Council was announced yesterday.
But
the head of that entity was assassinated just three hours after the introductory press conference.
The Kurds blamed the Turks for the killing.
Today the Turkish government announced that it will not only take Jarablus but also Manbij
and throw the Kurds back east behind the Euphrates river.
The U.S. had so far supported
the Kurdish move towards west-Syria with special forces and air support.
But
it reacted to the Turkish move against its alliance with the Kurds
as it always did over the last 30 years.
It immediately betrayed the Kurds as a bigger interests arouse.
Turkey is a NATO ally that threatens to move to a closer alliance with Russia and Iran.
The U.S. can not condone that.
The Kurds will therefore again have to suffer for their gullibility and ambition.
U.S. vice president Biden arrived in Ankara today for a penitential pilgrimage.
The Turkish government accuses the U.S.
to have been involved in the recent coup attempt against it.
There may well be some truth to that.
In a public snub
Biden was received at the airport of the Turkish capital by the deputy mayor of the city.
For now the Turkish president Erdogan will continue his way
no matter what the U.S. says or does.
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