(en) Anarkismo.net: The front of Rojava and complex theater
of operations of the social revolution Kurdish by Brunol (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation]
The analysis is relatively complex and the resulting appears to be simple. The social
forces of Rojava are surrounded has behind the border with Turkey. Before the liberation
of the Syrian part of Kurdistan, the streets used by arms dealers for the supply logistics
of the jihadists could count on (tolerance) of the State turkish. After July 2012, the
YPG, self-defense militias organically linked to the TEV-Dem [composition of the social
forces egemonizzade from PYD (Democratic Union Party), which organizes the local company]
have begun to close the border in search of a regional autonomy. ---- Koban? is surrounded
by ISIS and behind the powerful army turkish cut supply lines to the city ruled by the
Democratic Autonomy Kurdish majority. ---- The government's response to Bashir Al-Assad
had been to leave open the road between Aleppo and Koban?, so that after the intense
bombardment of Aleppo (when the Baath aviation bombed indiscriminately the city), you
would be overpopulated Koban?, accepting a mosaic of ethnicities. Following the Alawite
government has failed to attack in the region, giving space and field maneuvers for the
competitive struggle between ISIS and the Frente Al-Nusra Front (creature and creator,
respectively, arising from links with Al-Qaeda). There was also a struggle for control of
the territory within the opposition non-jihadist. The fight between the YPG and the Free
Syrian Army (FSA), lasted nearly three months, until the end of the truce of 2013. With
this armistice, the YPG and the FSA have started working together, once ruled that the
Rojava land was freed by his Democratic Autonomy (confederalism Democrat on a local basis)
as a management system.
In the same period, it was intensifying the jihadist advanced in the region, with the
approval of Turkey, the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia and Qatar in particular) and even
with the absence of attacks from Damascus. Result: the people's power in Syrian Kurdistan
has become the only source of direct confrontation against the craziness of ISIS and rival
groups.
In this scenario worked in strategic alliance, the YPG and the FSA. Strengthened positions
Kurdish peshmerga from a detachment of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraqi
Kurdistan controlled - through elections - by three right-wing parties Kurdish. The
government in Irbil (the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan) has negotiated with the government of
Erdogan (Prime Minister turkish) for months to get a safe passage in its sovereign
territory (the Kurdistan turkish) to reach the front in Rojava. The KRG is in the region
one closest to a pro-Western government and his forces clashed with the PKK in the early 90s.
However, a truce of unity among the Kurds has allowed HPG units of the PKK (the Kurdish
self-defense forces of the left in Turkey, guerrillas furniture with great experience)
could be sent to the theater of operations in Kirkuk (Iraq) together with the peshmerga to
fight the advance of ISIS and to protect the Yazidis, Assyrians, Chaldeans and other
minorities. So, with the Kurdish alliance has expanded the territory under the sovereignty
of the KRG. It has earned the PYD (co-brother of the PKK in Syria) with its representation
advisory, but also the growing popularity of the left in the Kurdish area of the KRG (it
is noteworthy that the government of Irbil is allied companies global oil and has good
relations with Israel, unlike the PKK-PYD). Coordinated air strikes by the United States
will change the dynamics of the war between ISIS and the YPG with their allies, but they
do not prevent the maneuvers and the advanced.
The biggest problem for the victory of the YPG is the border with Turkey, heavily
patrolled, State proved to be favorable ISIS. Across the border turkish enter volunteers
jihadists, European weapons and supplies, as well as an action of police control by
Turkish troops, to close supply lines to Koban?. Thus sides at the front are: YPG / FSA /
peshmerga against ISIS, while it is absent from the conflict that's left of the army of
the government of Assad (who retired to the south of Turkey in the region around
Damascus). The turkish army and the Gulf monarchies end up helping the ISIS and al-Nusra
Front while Iran, not to fight the Sunni jihadists in the region, is isolated or is
fighting against the Kurds that left against the followers of al-Baghdadi .
The history of repeated, this time West Beirut is Koban?
During the fateful 1982, during the second invasion of the forces of "Defense" Israeli in
Lebanon (Operation Peace for Galilee cynically called), was coined a motto that marked the
Palestinian revolution and pan-Arabism. In western Beirut besieged by Israeli forces and
the allied Christian phalanges (Kataeb and the Tigers of Gemayel), in the area controlled
by the Palestinian Front-Progressive-Muslim on the walls, it said: "Beirut is the
Stalingrad of the Arabs." In 2014, the city of Koban?, besieged Syrian forces well
equipped Daesh (or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS or ISIL) is the
Stalingrad of the Kurds, Armenians, Chechens, Alevis (a current Sufism), the Yazidis,
Assyrians, Arabs (Shiites, Sunnis and Christians), and the Turkish left and receives more
and more international volunteers.
This city also suffers from the pressure of the troops from Turkey, ruled by the Islamist
AKP party, working for the overthrow of the Assad clan. The Ankara government is actually
allowing the free movement of jihadists, most of whom come from communities Islamized
European countries. In addition to those with the European Union passport, there's also
several fighters of the Sunni fundamentalism provienti from NATO member countries. In this
military alliance with 28 member countries, only Turkey is a Muslim majority religion.
The State turkish has decision-making autonomy, so much power and implement a realistic
strategy that leads to a double play fearsome. Publicly, coordinates with the United
States to form a coalition against the ISIS. But on the face of the fighting, was
reluctant to pass on its territory 150 pershmerga (Lions of Kurdistan, Kurdish fighters
loyal to the Kurdish regional government in Iraq), who came from Canton Ciz?re (double
border with Iraq under control Kurdish and Turkey), to help the resistance to Koban?.
Behind the scenes, Turkey authorizes the passage of Islamic terrorists to attack behind
the front left of the defensive positions.
As mentioned earlier, there are two Islamic factions in the fight against the Kurdish
revolution. One is the ISIS, led by self-proclaimed caliph Al-Baghdadi, a religious
organization-military matters in the theater of operations in Syria more than 18,000
fighters from more than 90 countries. And 'sickening Turkey's role in the fight against
Rojava. The other faction is the official arm of Al-Qaeda in the region, Al Nusra Front.
For Erdogan and his supporters, it is preferable to use the Sunni terror that tolerate the
autonomy of Rojava with its Constitution and its multi-ethnic experiments of direct
democracy and semi-direct. Since the Free Syrian Army (FSA) has signed a truce with the
YPG / YPJ (Self-Defense Forces of Rojava), no longer functions as old arm of Ankara and
decreased its ability to operate as a satellite of the Erdogan government. Thus, the
moderate Islamist AKP, tolerant in the eyes of the West, can strengthen fundamentalism and
Islamic totalitarianism ISIS. The goal is to defeat the left and its Kurdish allies
multi-confessional.
The cost of political and ideological unity Kurdish
The left Kurdish must ensure a secure base and a corridor of supplies for the front of
Koban?. This safe ground is the territory controlled by the KRG. Therefore, this
dependence could lead to the possibility of an assimilation of Rojava within the dynamics
of the pro-Western government of Prime Minister Barzani Nerchevan. Recall that Barzani is
an ally of Israel and has signed a number of contracts for oil west, having a great
relationship with the United States (seen in this area as liberators from the dictatorship
of Saddam Hussein). Fears Fear should not be exaggerated, but it must be a sincere debate
on Kurdish nationalism and the possible unity with the Liberal government of the KRG.
Notwithstanding these variables pro-liberal, the possibilities are open and you have to
see if the YPG / YPJ / HPG beat the ISIS on the front of Koban?.
What is at stake is the redefinition of the geopolitics of oil and the formation of a new
company. No coincidence that we are faced with a cruel silence. "Not a word" - not a
single word. If we take as a measure of the United States and we look at the editorial
line of CNN with his ties to the Democratic Party, it is called the Revolution of Rojava
as the battle front of the Syrian Kurds. There is no reference to the PYD, nor to YPG as a
belligerent force of another way of life in society and the less there are references to
confederalism democratic. It is a cruel silence and concealment before the eyes of the
world. It is said that there would be a reliable partner, so the West should let the
Islamic states (Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia) do on their own initiative. Whereas Turkey
is part of NATO, the reliable ally exists. But for Ankara - in the harsh rules of the
geopolitical realism - there would be no substantial difference between the PKK and the
ISIS, absurd as it may seem.
Any resemblance of expectation with the Revolution and the Spanish Civil War is not a
coincidence.
Bruno Lima Rocha
www.estrategiaeanalise.com.br
Translation by Alternative Libertarian / FdCA-International Relations Office .
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