News:

Turkey gives a harsh response to YPG's "FSA is not allowed in" statement for crossing Kobane: "No FSA, No Peshmerga". The Peshmerga group who is expected to be sent in order to break the ISIL invasion which is going on now for 45 days, has finally arrived in Şanlıurfa after leaving from Arbil International Airport at late hours last night. While everybody expected the Peshmerga to enter Kobane, 200 armed members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) have been allowed to enter Kobane before the Peshmerga. According to the report of Namik Durukan from Milliyet (newspaper); YPG, who does not favour the entrance of Islamic Front members who are components of the FSA and who are regarded as being close to ISIL into Kobane, was finally convinced to let them in to Kobane after haggle at the border. (Source: internet Haber, 30/10/2014)

Comment:

The US intends to set a new game in the Middle East, by way of Turkey, Iran and Iraq. The game is played in the heart of the Middle East - in Iraq and the lands of Sham. The USA already have had a long-term game for this region in the scope of the Greater Middle East Initiative. However, there arose a new factor which requires to reset the game and to re-plan it upon new tactics. The Syrian revolution began in March 2011 and the West is still not able to cope with this revolution. The US knows very well that if the Syrian regime topples as a result of this revolution, its long-term plans for the region will fail. Therefore, the US aims to create three small federalisms in the region in order to destroy the revolution. Now the US wants to protect the Assad regime and to forestall the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" by adding Syria to its plans of dividing Iraq which it had not implemented yet.

It has already completed the Federal Shiite Iraq state in one part of Iraq. The regional administration of the Barzani controlled north of Iraq is planned to be connect with Syria's north (Rojova) in order to establish a Federal Kurdish state. The last and third part will be another Sunni state with a part in Iraq and a part in Syria. The Shiite bloc is already controlled by Iran. The US is very pleased with both the Iraqi central management and Iran in this region. And as the Sunni region is under the dominance of ISIL, the US is currently not much worried about this region. The Iraqi part of the Kurdish region is controlled by Barzani. Also the PKK's Syrian arm, PYD-YPG, is in the North of Syria. And there is a dissent between Barzani and the PKK. Conversely, thanks to the United States, the governments of Turkey and Barzani have become bosom friends. But there is still a search after a solution for the region left behind by Assad's retreating in 2012 in the north of Syria.

The US and Turkey do not want to have such kinds of PYD established small autonomous entities in North Syria. Relying on its experience in Iraq, the US wants to control this region via Barzani. And also Turkey proceeds in this policy of the USA. For this reason, it wants not only the peshmerga forces to be in Kobane but also the FSA.

This aims at achieving a few goals:

1: The USA plans to combat sincere revolutionary Islamist groups in Syria by forming a new moderate army out of YPG, peshmerga and FSA forces.

2: It wants to control the region through Barzani by letting in the FSA and peshmerga forces into Kobane, relying on its experiences in Iraq. Because controlling through Barzani and the FSA means also an intervention by Turkey, as the FSA is under the control of the Turkish Intelligence. Also a control through Barzani might contribute to Turkey's resolution process, and allows Turkey to move easily within Barzani's region. However, the PYD, meaning the PKK, wants to preserve its acquisition (the autonomous district). Here the PYD aims at disrupting the game which we call splitting-in-three-plan. This is the reason why it opposes the entry of the FSA to Kobane. Therefore, showing Selefi Mujahideen from Islamic Front within the FSA as a reason is nothing more than a flimsy excuse, because there is no one else but moderate soldiers within the FSA.

 

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Mahmut KAR