• Deeply, neither the leaders of the Kurdish groups want to see Afrin as the most important city in Syria for the Kurds has got out of the dream of the Kurdish entity, nor the regime of Recep Erdogan want to see his war on Afrin as mere a pressing factor to persuade the Kurds to accept the entry of the Syrian army to Afrin.
• In fact, the fall of Afrin in the hands of the Turks is a disaster for the Kurds morally and popularly, because it encourages Turkey to continue its military campaign on one hand, and it will lead to destruction, ruin, and displacement which the Kurdish leaders will bear its responsibility in front of the people on the other hand, as happened with the project of Masoud Al Barazani in Iraq. Therefore, the Kurds will fight with everything available to prevent this disaster.
• In fact, the Turks imagined the repetition of the scenario of Iraqi Kurdistan with the Kurds of Syria by turning the military pressure and siege into a reason for retreat and the recognition of new reality , but they ignored that the title in Iraq was the submission to the central state not to the foreign occupation, and this is a ceiling of what can be achieved in Syria, since the intention of the military resolving will turn into military and political disaster on Erdogan in the war of attrition in which thousands of civilians will be killed without achieving the military resolving.
• The fate of Turks and the Kurds is to recognize without obstinacy that the project of the Syrian country and its army of re-having control over Afrin is the only realistic exit from the impasse of the two teams, so in this case neither Afrin will fall nor the threat of a Kurdish entity will remain. This is closer to be a fate rather than a choice.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,

2018-02-20 | عدد القراءات 1835