Turkey Finds Time to Threaten US-Backed Kurds, Ignored by Same US
Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan is quoted telling the YPG – U.S.-backed fighters instrumental in defeating ISIS – not to push Ankara. The mainstream narrative conveniently forgets that for years, the U.S. armed, trained, and fought alongside these very forces. Now, as Turkey consolidates its regional power-grabs, Washington issues performative 'concerns' while its 'allies' threaten each
other with equipment the U.S. provided. One might wonder if the U.S. Department of State keeps a curated list of 'terrorists' that changes depending on who's convenient at the moment. The YPG (Syrian Democratic Forces) were heroes against ISIS; now, they're 'terrorists' when Turkish President Erdoğan, a NATO ally, needs to expand his influence. How long until the US remembers its own recent
history before green-lighting another regional destabilization?