{"id":31828,"date":"2018-10-29T11:25:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T05:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31828"},"modified":"2018-10-29T11:25:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T05:55:25","slug":"towards-an-endgame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/towards-an-endgame\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards an endgame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/towards-an-endgame\/article22492243.ece\"><b>Towards an endgame<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Turkish President has announced that Turkish forces alongside the Free Syrian Army had begun armed operations in the Syrian town of Afrin<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is in the news<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the conflict with the Islamic State (IS) almost coming to an end, Turkey has taken a major step against the Kurdish fighters on Syrian borders.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will bring the US- backed <\/span><b>Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in direct war with Turkey. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This a mere extension of the already ongoing war against the Kurds within Turkey\u2019s southern provinces.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is SDF?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was created in 2015<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the various Syrian Kurdish political forces and their military wing, the People\u2019s Protection Units (YPG), and the Women\u2019s Protection Units (YPJ).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The SDF was created as a platform for the Syrian Kurds to join with these other groups into an anti-IS military alliance<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the background of the conflict?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Turkey has always ideologically opposed the SDF as it considers it as a Kurdish resurrection movement<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SDF with air support from the U.S., routed the IS from Raqqa in October 2017.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subsequently, the Kurdish leadership asked Raqqa\u2019s people to join the Kurdish-run state of \u201cDemocratic Federation of Northern Syria (Rojava).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Rojava is essentially the heart of the conflict<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRojava\u201d which means \u201cWestern Kurdistan\u201d highlights the Kurdish ambitions of a greater Kurdish state that would include land in Iraq (Eastern Kurdistan) and Turkey (Northern Kurdistan).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The attempt by Iraqi Kurds in 2017 to declare independence was curtailed by the armed intervention of the Iraqi army into the Kurdish autonomous region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A similar attempt by Syrian Kurds to produce an autonomous region on the Syria-Turkish border gave rise to conflicts in Ankara.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towards an endgame Context: Turkish President has announced that Turkish forces alongside the Free Syrian Army had begun armed operations in the Syrian town of Afrin What is in the news? With the conflict with the Islamic State (IS) almost coming to an end, Turkey has taken a major step against the Kurdish fighters on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/towards-an-endgame\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Towards an endgame<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704930249},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}