I do. I trust TSK and Jandarma more in securing our borders from PKK than Peshmerga and what exactly gives you the impression that Barzani will protect our borders? They can't do shit against PKK and they do nothing besides building outpost in areas secured by TSK.
Good morning my dude we have open borders, we have millions of refugees, flooding the country is promoted by the Goverment, deals with the EU were signed to keep them in Türkiye, the Goverment is boasting around how much they spend on those bloodsucking ticks. The Gendarmerie officers who dealt with illegals are now under arrest, what should the security forces do when the Goverment is allowing them in and punishing everyone who harms them? Illegals aren't even pushed back what do you expect? Gendarmerie personel mowing them down on the border so that they end up in prison?
Erdogan-Barzani family relations and theft, that's the business of Turkish judiciary not mine. I don't have time to waste searching for your fanboy comments look for yourself, since i'm not the only one who noticed your Anti Turkmen and pro Barzanistan comments.
I am not saying to rely on Barzani to secure the borders, but on the Iraqi side we need depth of defence and cutting of PKK movement and supply lines. This is the job of Barzani, as a village guard we pay. Otherwise we would have to keep TSK there forever, which is costly and could cause political headaches. Furthermore it makes a target of TSK. It is Barzani partnered with our intelligence who prevents the PKK from assassinating our diplomats in Iraq for example. This relationship extends to diminishing PKK influence in the region. This war is not just fought by drones and soldiers. You need society to be anti-PKK, the hearts and minds operation. That's what the barzanis are for. As a counter balance, you have seen the PUK become closer to Iran and thus the PKK.
Weak Barzani = stronger PKK. That's the calculation in the region. That is why we have all these deals with Barzani. All of the major PKK routes into Syria from Iraq avoid Barzani territory where possible and use PUK/Iranian/Hashd controlled areas. Ideally they would not have this routes. I did not say anything about trusting Barzani, but he needs us and that is enough to trust that he will not aid the PKK and will prevent their influence. This is a tribal who is practically a village guard like the tribes we pay inside TR - he won't give up the oil and border money for the PKK.
And my posts are not anti-Turkmen, I am anti Iran. My posts about the Kirkuk issue were about how Iran is attempting to take control of the Iraqi Turkmen front using Ersat Salihi's party that is separate to Iraqi Turkmen Front (A bloc). I am pretty sure I am right, too - the events were played exactly in Iran's interests. PUK + Iran + Hashd is dangerous to us.
Numerous instances where Peshmerga refused to fight PKK.
There is a reason why Turkish troops are not alongside them at all.
Because they cant be trusted to fight alongside us. We are not even coordinating with them on everything.
There is some coordination but not a full extent. We are keeping our distance. One Peshmerga soldier on PBS talked about if he has to fight pkk he will drop his weapons as he refuses to fight other Kurds.
Erdogan and Barzani are close because their relationship is all business.
Numerous instances where Erdogan refused to attack Assad too, this is a cost-analysis...TR simply doesn't offer enough for Barzani to risk doing this and losing legitimacy with local population. Barzani does enough to cut PKK supply lines and influence, labelling them terrorist on global news. That's more important than fighting the PKK directly for us anyway, as TSK can handle that. War of the mind is more difficult.
At the end of the day you want the society there to not be pro-PKK and your choice is Barzani or Talabani. One of them will hugely boost PKK recruitment, weapons, propaganda and is connected to Iran. Which do you choose ? Because you cannot send TSK to occupy half of Iraq in this war with the PKK and just assassinating leaders won't end the transnational insurgency, because being a cell leader does not require years of experience.
Also, we know exactly where Mazlum lives in Syria. If you are going to fight this war with gloves on by killing a handful a month, eventually the PKK will make an advancement that will threaten us, like becoming a state in Syria or this attack on the interior.
Imagine a worse scenario - the US does not let you go to Erbil and the Barzanis and Talabanis are both pro-PKK. You'd have far less intelligence on PKK movements and performance would be even worse. The PKK would advance even faster. They can move supplies and people straight to Syria from Iran and to Qandil easily.
