Ankara Blast: Catastrophe of Convenience
The
fireball from this week’s blast in Ankara had barely begun to fade
before the world begun bracing itself for the predictable accusation
that Syria’s Kurdish YPG (People’s Protection Units) were behind the
blast. This is because Turkey has developed a transparently cynical
strategy of staging blasts throughout its territory and behind to stoke
fears, justify condemnation and retaliation and demonize not only it own
enemies, but those of its partners in NATO and particularly, those of
the United States.
Syria’s
YPG was the obvious target of this blast and the barrage of accusations
and threats that quickly followed because it is the YPG together with
Syrian and Russian forces that now threaten to finally foil the
US-NATO-GCC proxy by closing the Afrin-Jarabulus corridor, and
specifically, the pivotal city of Azaz, located in Syria right along the
Syrian-Turkish border.
YPG was the obvious target of this blast and the barrage of accusations
and threats that quickly followed because it is the YPG together with
Syrian and Russian forces that now threaten to finally foil the
US-NATO-GCC proxy by closing the Afrin-Jarabulus corridor, and
specifically, the pivotal city of Azaz, located in Syria right along the
Syrian-Turkish border.
For years Azaz has served as a nexus for
foreign-backed militant operations not only in northern Syria, but as a
logistical hub supplying terrorist operations all throughout the
country. Its seizure by either Syria’s Kurdish YPG or the SAA (Syrian
Arab Army) would effectively hobble US-NATO-GCC’s proxy war, at least in
the north.
foreign-backed militant operations not only in northern Syria, but as a
logistical hub supplying terrorist operations all throughout the
country. Its seizure by either Syria’s Kurdish YPG or the SAA (Syrian
Arab Army) would effectively hobble US-NATO-GCC’s proxy war, at least in
the north.
