As Operation Olive Branch continues with full force, there are efforts to bring Turkey’s fight against the PKK-affiliate People’s Protection Units (YPG) to an end. Western governments note that they appreciate Ankara’s security concerns. Yet they clearly don’t want the […]
Many experts and observers of Turkish-U.S. relations are now asking if the current state of relations between the two countries can be fixed or if they have entered an irreversible process of falling apart. Turkey’s Afrin offensive, Operation Olive Branch, […]
When the Turkish government had announced that the Euphrates River is the red line for Turkey and it will not accept the People’s Protection Units’ (YPG) presence west of the Euphrates, U.S. officials greatly underestimated Turkey’s warning, belittling the YPG […]
Almost a week has passed since the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) began Operation Olive Branch in Afrin. We have seen that over this week, the Turkish military has carried out effective attacks over both land and air and that it […]
As Turkey counts down to an imminent military operation in Afrin, the United States took its long-standing support for the PKK’s Syrian branch, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), to a new level. Over the weekend, the Global Coalition to Defeat […]
Tensions between Turkey and the PYD have resulted in the disappearing of grey areas in diplomacy and have forced all countries to take clear stands on the Syria issue. Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and partially Germany are one side of […]
