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[QUOTE="farid_h, post: 15240775, member: 92820"] [b]U.S.-Turkish tensiony[/b] This raises the question of how countries like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, which have borne the brunt of financing the Syrian opposition (each country to its own militias), will react to the American decision. Presumably they will continue funding and arming their pet militias. That will pointlessly extend the fighting, but it will protect their own interests. The most dangerous divergence among the major powers’ interests, however, is the rising tension between Turkey and Washington. It hit new heights this week when the Turkish news agency Anadolu published a map of U.S. military bases in northern Syria, replete with the number of American soldiers serving on each. This infuriated not only Washington but all NATO members, because never before had one NATO country revealed another’s military secrets. Even worse, the publishing of the map and numbers endangered American soldiers and the bases where they’re stationed. Granted, the location of some bases had been published several months before, and was already known to militias active in northern Syria. But never before has such precise information been leaked by an ally. The reason for Turkey’s leak was its deep unhappiness over American aid to the Syrian Democratic Forces. Turkey suspects the SDF’s Kurdish fighters of cooperating with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, the PKK, which Ankara defines as a terror group. And it fears that some of the American weaponry the SDF is using against that Islamic State in Raqqa has been given, or will be given, to Kurdish groups fighting against Turkey. Washington’s promise that the weapons have been counted and will be collected from the Kurds when the campaign is over hasn’t assuaged Turkey’s concerns, and rightly so. A lot of American weaponry made its way to terror groups after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But Washington sees the Kurds as an effective and essential fighting force against the Islamic State, so it has no intention, at least for now, of halting aid to the Syrian Democratic Forces. The distinction Washington has drawn between Kurdish militias fighting the Islamic State, which merit aid, and non-Kurdish militias fighting Assad, which no longer do, could increase clashes between the Kurdish militias and the Free Syrian Army, which is fighting alongside Turkey to expand the Syrian territory under Turkey’s control. Turkey’s ambassador to Washington, Serdar Kilic, defined the United States’ support for the Kurds as a “strategic mistake,” arguing that Raqqa could be captured by Turkish and American forces. Turkish officials say Ankara offered to contribute tens of thousands of soldiers to such an effort, but Washington wanted 80,000, which the Turks considered excessive. Moreover, they said, the United States didn’t really have a serious plan of action. Now the concern is that Turkey’s expanding involvement in Idlib province and the expected clashes between its troops and local militias could force the United States, which wants to decamp once Raqqa is taken, to keep its own forces in the field to prevent a war between Turkey and the Syrian militias. (... to be continued ...) [/QUOTE]
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