Future Kurdish state may reach the Mediterranean in return for marching on Raqqa; Turkey pissed off - Polidicks

[quote]Syria’s Kurds have revealed plans to redraw the northern part of the country by[B] linking the Kurdish region of Rojava with the Mediterranean Sea,[/B] in a move that will infuriate neighbouring Turkey. In a further sign of growing Kurdish confidence in Syria’s north, officials say that they [B]plan to ask the US for political support in creating a trade corridor to the Mediterranean as part of a deal for their role in liberating Raqqa[/B] and other cities from Islamic State (Isis). Senior figures have also indicated that the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), a 50,000-strong collection of fighters dominated by the YPJ Kurdish militia and a crucial US partner in its offensive against Isis, is preparing to occupy Raqqa after eradicating Isis before pushing deeper into Arab territory, along the Euphrates valley, and seizing the city of Deir ez–Zor from the extremist group. In another startling development, an official even revealed it was possible that SDF forces might eventually push west to liberate the city of Idlib, 170km west of Raqqa, and currently controlled by a coalition of Islamists and jihadis including the former al-Qaida affiliate Nusra Front. Hediya Yousef, in charge of the federalism project for the self-declared autonomous “democratic federation of north Syria”, which has expanded from the Kurdish region of Rojava to include considerable Arab territory, told the Observer: [B]“Arriving at the Mediterranean Sea is in our project for northern Syria, it’s a legal right for us to reach the Mediterranean.”[/B] When asked if that meant asking the US for its political backing to achieve a trading route to the sea once they had helped eradicate Isis from north Syria, Yousef said: “Of course.” Speaking in the Syrian city of Malikiyah near to where recent Turkish airstrikes struck Kurdish targets, killing 20 fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPJ), Yousef added:[B] “If we arrive at the Mediterranean it will solve many of the problems of the population in northern Syria, everyone will benefit.”[/B] Opening the region to international trading routes would significantly empower northern Syria[B], circumventing the existing blockade on Rojava caused by the closed border with Turkey and tensions with Iraq.[/B] But the [B]plans will outrage Turkey, which has already invaded Syria to prevent the Kurds extending their territory[/B] along the entire Turkish border.[/quote] [url]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/06/syria-kurds-raqqa-mediterranen[/url]

[quote]But the plans will outrage Turkey[/quote] I mean this seems like a good enough reason already.

And if Erdogan tries to cut off their new trade corridor, let that be the incident that results in him being eaten alive on the streets of Constantinople.

[QUOTE=ironman17;52195147]And if Erdogan tries to cut off their new trade corridor, let that be the incident that results in him being eaten alive on the streets of Constantinople.[/QUOTE] But it's Istanbul, not Constantinople. [video=youtube;Wcze7EGorOk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze7EGorOk[/video] Unfortunately, I don't think the Trump Administration would allow that, unless we were able to sell the Kurds a shit ton of weapons/tanks/hang Erdogan from a tree. The map of the Middle East is overdue for redrawing anyway.

[quote]On Wednesday a senior aide to the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, suggested American troops could be targeted alongside their Kurdish allies.[/quote] Like hell you would.

This will be relevant. [IMG]https://www.informationliberation.com/files/kE7vaZ0.jpg[/IMG] We have always been at war with East Asia

[QUOTE=Megadave;52195349]This will be relevant. [IMG]https://www.informationliberation.com/files/kE7vaZ0.jpg[/IMG] We have always been at war with East Asia[/QUOTE] I think you need to work on your geography.

[QUOTE=Megadave;52195349]We have always been at war with East Asia[/QUOTE] Mongolia, China, Koreas and Japan?

I think he's referencing 1984, guys.

... Wednesday a senior aide to the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, suggested American troops could be targeted alongside their Kurdish allies... seems Turkey forgot who saved them from soviet invasion ...

only problem with this is it would leave iraq basically financially fucked since the kurds would be taking most of iraq's known oil and it would give them a port to export it straight out of the region without having to stop in iraq's refinery. its good for the kurds but its not really good for much else unfortunetly. Politics in the middle east is about making winners and loosers, the only solutions that work are ones where everybody looses some and everybody wins some which is why I doubt our current administration is up to the task

[QUOTE=Megadave;52195349]This will be relevant. [IMG]https://www.informationliberation.com/files/kE7vaZ0.jpg[/IMG] We have always been at war with East Asia[/QUOTE] At last! 600 years late but better late than never

[QUOTE=Sableye;52195837]only problem with this is it would leave iraq basically financially fucked since the kurds would be taking most of iraq's known oil and it would give them a port to export it straight out of the region without having to stop in iraq's refinery. its good for the kurds but its not really good for much else unfortunetly. Politics in the middle east is about making winners and loosers, the only solutions that work are ones where everybody looses some and everybody wins some which is why I doubt our current administration is up to the task[/QUOTE] Iraq's oil fields are fairly spread out, I think it would be more determined by skilled workforce being split rather than where the actual resources are: [img]http://enterpriseresilienceblog.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c4ebd53ef0120a4c6621a970b-pi[/img]