Beyond being a geographical piece of land, Syria has witnessed the important historical developments of our past, and it is a place where important personalities of our civilization have grown. In these lands, Turks, Kurds, Arabs and other peoples have lived in fraternity for centuries and strengthened their unity by fighting against all the common enemies that threatened this brotherhood. The Anatolian – Syrian lands are the symbol of our brotherhood, solidarity, values.
This fraternity has always been the target of enemy attacks. These attacks took place as open occupation attempts at certain periods, as in 1915-1918, but always carried on by ideological, ethnical-racist separatist methods.It is not a race to grab an ethnic area in the Syrian geography today, as some academics, so-called intellectuals and activists are trying to show.
Today, just beyond our borders, steps are being taken by the imperialist forces to establish a collaborative quasi-state structure that will eventually serve as a threat to our country’s territorial integrity. We see that they are trying to build a structure which is not in line with the history of the region, tradition of the people living in the region. These steps pose a big threat to permanent stabilization of the region and our deep-rooted brotherhood.
This artificial venture is a dangerous process from the very beginning to the conclusions it may have, which is destined to be rotten, unsuccessful, but which will cause to decrease our energies, weaken our power and pave the way for permanent hostilities and bloody wars among the people of the region. This period is so dangerous that Turkey’s intellectuals, academicians and civil society organizations can not be expected to remain indifferent. We would like to draw the attention of all national and international public opinion to the following points required by our historical responsibility.
- Firstly, Turkey is a country which has great successes within the context of empowering its democracy since 1946. It is the only multi-party democracy functioning properly in the region. On this basis our country, since 1952, has been in the alliance relationship with the members of the NATO for 65 years. It also has the structure of a free-market economy and the capacity of a civil society to the extent that it can not be compared with other countries in the region.
- On the other hand, the United States, which is our ally for more than half a century, is striving to restructure northern Syria in partnership with the PKK / PYD / YPG, a Maoist Socialist terrorist organization as an ideology and philosophy of foundation.
- Terrorist groups, which are in search of Pol Pot regime, and democracy values are incompatible with each other.So, it is clear that a formation that uses terror as a means of reaching the targets and trying to open up space to itself by digesting masses with arms can not be a part of any domocratic initiative.
- There is no difference between PKK and PYD. The PYD does not have any distinguishing feature beyond the PKK’s Syrian wing. Founded on November 25, 1978 under the leadership of Abdullah Öcalan, the PKK has massacred more than 30,000 Turkish citizens by terrorist methods. In the recent year, 40 civilians lost their lives as a result of the attacks of the organization. The PYD is an organization that manages terrorist attacks against Turkey across the Syrian border. PYD dispatches terrorists and arms from the territories of Syria to our lands. The current leading body of the organization has been formed by PKK terrorists. Even the presence of Abdullah Öcalan’s posters in all meetings and demonstrations organized in Syria is enough to show the PKK / PYD co-existence solely.
- In spite of these facts, the US has helped the PYD terrorist organization with 3000 guns (about 2.2 billion dollars), according to the statements of its own authorities.Again, US officials have announced that an army will be established in association with PYD terrorist organization in the region. Supplying arms aid and and giving military training to the organization which continues its attacks against Turkey, pose a direct threat to our country. These military supplies and trained terrorists have been used in attacks against Turkish security forces. So,this situation cannot be expected to be welcomed by the Turkish public opinion.
- U.S. explains the partnership with the PYD as an obligatory step for the struggle against DAESH. However, the US has rejected Turkey’s offer to act together against DAESH and in spite of drained power of DAESH terrorist organization, it has continued to improve its partnership with the PYD. Moreover, targeting Turkish borders as an area of activity of new terrorist organization is an unacceptable situation.U.S. ignores the clear fact that Turkey has inflicted casualty most by directly struggling on the ground against DAESH terrorist organization. It even caused serious doubts about the alliance relationship by trying to prevent the Euphrates Shield Operation against DAESH.
- PKK / PYD is not a representative of the Kurds living in the region. . The PKK / PYD terrorist organization has struggled to strengthen its position over the Kurds and Arabs by performing ethnic cleansing operations and trying to digest the local people by torture and other oppressive methods since they have not acknowledged their authority for centuries. In addition, the terrorist organization force women and children to act as human shields to prevent itself from operations.
- With de-facto existence in the region and remaining silent, U.S. has actually given implicit support to these operations.
- All the happenings demonstrate that neither the goal of the US-PYD partnership is DAESH, nor the PYD is a representative of Kurds, it is just a collaborative terrorist organization.
By improving partnership with a terrorist organization, U.S. jeopardizes the historic alliance relationship with Turkey. The United States continues to protect Fethullah Gulen, the chief of the July 15 coup attempt. Additionally, U.S. gets reaction of Turkish public opinion while it wants to punish Turkish citizens with the suspension of visa services and tries to discipline them in this way. Nonetheless, further strengthening its democracy tradition, Turkey has the power to continue on its path with determination to restore the regional peace.
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