The 13-year civil warfare between Syria’s authorities and insurgent fighters has ended. But the peril shouldn’t be over for Syria’s Kurdish minority.
A lot of armed factions are nonetheless jostling for management after the collapse of the Assad regime. They embody the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, which have allied with the United States to fight the extremist Islamic State, and the Syrian National Army, a militia backed by Turkey, which is hostile to the Kurdish forces.
For greater than a decade, the Kurdish-led troopers have been America’s most dependable companion in Syria, liberating cities seized by the extremist group and detaining round 9,000 of its fighters.
But Turkey, which shares a border with Syria, has lengthy thought-about the Kurdish group to be its enemy. The Turkish authorities believes the Kurdish fighters in Syria are allied with the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.Ok.Ok., which has fought the Turkish state for many years.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, who backs the insurgent teams that toppled the Assad regime, seems desperate to seize the chance created by the momentous political shift in Syria to pursue his personal agenda towards the Kurdish fighters.
