doubly alarmed now that the
Kurds of Syria have cobbled
together their own autonomous
region, which they call Rojava,
while the Arabs of Syria fight a
devastating civil war with each
other. And the Turkish
establishment istriply alarmed
because the Kurdish militias in
Syria—the YPG, or People’s
Protection Units—are aligned
with the PKK.
Turkey’s President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan—like most of
his ethnic Turkish
countrymen—is terrified that
an independent Syrian
Kurdistan will help Turkish
Kurdistan wage a revolutionary
war against Ankara. Fairly or
not, Erdogan sees Rojava much
the way the Israelis see
Hezbollah-occupied southern
Lebanon.
Ideally the Syrian Kurds
wouldn’t side with the PKK.
The PKK has committed
crimes [