TURKISH INVOLVEMENT IN SYRIA. OIL SMUGGLING BUSINESS AND IMPERIAL AMBITIONS LEAD TO GLOBAL WAR?

14 February, 2016

According to Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish Armed Forces are ready to invade Syria.

“If necessary, we can take the same measures in Syria, as we took in Iraq, in Qandil [the mountain range in Northern Iraq],” Le Figaro cites Ahmet Davutoglu. The statement references to attacks that Turkish military conducted against PKK positions in the Qandil region of Iraq in 2015. These attacks were made without any agreements with the Iraqi government or a UN mandate.

The Turkish Prime Minister also added that Turkey expects to get the support of its “friends and allies”.

However, the real goal of the Turkish actions is far away from opposing militancy or even ISIS in Syria. On Feb. 13, Turkish military started a cross-border artillery shelliing against the position of Kurdish YPG units which fight ISIS in the Aleppo province of Syria. Such actions are clearly helping ISIS to hold the ground in this area.

These statement confirm the Erdogan regime’s agressive attitude over any attempts to solve the Syrian crisis with diplomatic measures. The militants backed mainly by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are losing the war. Furthermore, major militant groups (ISIS, al-Nusra, Harakat Ahrar Al-Sham and other affiliated organizations) supported by these countries are officially recognized as terrorists. Thus, Turkey has already lost any kind of diplomatic standoff over Syria.

Thus Turkey and ‘its partners’ are pushing to escalation in the region: