Scott Summers
Contributor
You see, none of our so called allies or the arabs are interested in a problem free ME neighborhood for Türkiye. KSA, UAE etc. are interested in having the PKK in Northern Syria and cause trouble for Türkiye. The West is interested in the same thing.
They hide it all behind words, but at the end of the day Israel can kill 60k+ people and not face any sanctions while we can't clear our immediate neighborhood from terrorists.
We should have conducted the operation full scale while HTS was moving towards Damascus. As I said the cards in our hands will rot away because we were passive. yes passive.
Syria needs money to rebuild and that is the incentive our enemies need to make HTS postpone and slow down any action against the PKK, they will color it in flowery words but at the end of the day if you don't shape the iron while it's hot it'll become brittle.
We screwed this up by giving HTS time to establish itself, and by not making the decision for him and clean up, then Joulani could have asked us to slow down once we liberated 70% of the territory under PKK.
100% agree.
We should conducted the operation during Biden-time when HTS was marching towards Damascus. We would get away with it and would only stop when HTS asked for it, to show that HTS is independant. But till that time we could have 70% freed.
But now, we must rely on plan B: attack when the negotiations fell between HTS and SDF.
But our peace negotiations with PKK and Öcalan are only making a operation more complex. Erdogan is to much on the election thing, more than on the Syrian thing.