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Turkey's Dangerous Game in Syria Threatens Entire Middle East
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vokradio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Turkey's Dangerous Game in Syria Threatens Entire Middle East
August 28, 2016
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin met recently to open a new chapter in Turkish-Russian relations, normalizing heretofore strained ties between their countries. This tension began last year as a result of Turkey shooting down a Russian warplane that was violating Turkish airspace. This new chapter dramatically changes the entire scene of the Syrian conflict.
At the center of this new development lies Ankara’s deep-seated antagonism toward Kurds, both in Syria and at home. In order to preempt Kurdish plans to connect the three cantons of Afrin, Kobane, and Jazeera, Ankara has taken steps to normalize ties with Russia, Iran and Syria, and gain their support for a military intervention into northern Syria.
Washington and Ankara's tensions over Syrian Kurds
Washington has been remarkably successful in improving its coordination with Syrian Kurds to destroy ISIS, which is now the priority of Washington in the Syrian conflict. The international coalition led by the US has established a successful and effective partnership with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). This force, led by the Kurdish YPG, includes the diverse peoples of the region of northern Syria, namely Arab, Assyrian, Armenian, Turkmen, and Circassian factions and large number of women protection units (YPJ).
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In abandoning the Kurds, the US has betrayed its only ally in the war in Syria
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vokradio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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In abandoning the Kurds, the US has betrayed its only ally in the war in Syria
America has chosen to placate Turkey rather than back Kurdish anti-Isis forces.
By Michael Horowitz
August 25, 2016
It almost seems like someone took the US strategy, and turned it upside down. Five days ago, US jets were scrambled to protect Kurdish forces in their self-declared Northern Syria Federation from Assad's air force in the eastern city of Hasakah.
Today, in the aftermath of a limited Turkish intervention on Syrian soil, the US is demanding the Kurds leave the northern city of Manbij, which the Kurds fought and died to capture during the past two months - backed by US warplanes.
That these two events happened less than a week from another is astonishing, even in such an unpredictable and volatile environment as the Syrian civil war. That the US is letting down its only remaining ally in Syria, at a time when other powers, namely Russia and Iran, have acted aggressively to protect theirs, is damaging to the overall US position in the region.
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Rights Groups Condemn Iran’s Executions of 20 Kurdish Prisoners
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vokradio, Los Angeles, California, USA ; Mehdi Jedinia, Sirwan Kajjo
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Rights Groups Condemn Iran’s Executions of 20 Kurdish Prisoner
VOA in English
Mehdi Jedinia, Sirwan Kajjo
Human rights groups on Thursday condemned the execution of at least
20 Kurdish activists in Iran who had been charged with links to
terrorism.
A statement by the Iranian intelligence ministry confirmed the
Wednesday executions, saying the convicts were part of a terrorist cell
that was responsible for armed attacks in Iran’s western provinces.
"These people had committed murder... killed women and children,
caused destruction and acted against the security, and killed Sunni
religious leaders in some Kurdish regions," Mohammad Javad Montazeri,
Iran’s top prosecutor, told IRIB TV, a state-run channel.
The Iranian government said that the men had ties to foreign Islamist
groups, an apparent reference to Islamic State, and that they were
plotting to carry out attacks inside Iran. But rights activists said the
government’s accusations were baseless.
Imprisoned earlier
“Some of them had been in prison even before Daesh [Islamic State] or
other Sunni extremist groups appeared in the region,” said an attorney
from Tehran who requested anonymity.
Shahram Ahmadi, 29, a Kurdish activist from Sanandaj, was among those
who were hanged. He was reportedly arrested for distributing leaflets
that demanded rights for the Sunni minority in Iran.
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Kurdish American 2016 Presidential Preference Survey: Clinton vs. Trump
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vokradio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Kurdish American 2016 Presidential Preference Survey: Clinton vs. Trump
راپه رسى له كورده كانى نيشته جى ولاته يكگرتووه كانى ئه مريكا، سه باره ت به هه لبژاردنه كانى سه روك كومارى ئه مريكا
Dear Fellow Kurdish American Community Members!
Hope you're all well.
As election season is in full swing, there is a lot at stake for us.
There is an information gathering survey titled "Kurdish American 2016 Presidential Preference Survey" that only takes a couple minutes to fill out.
The survey is confidential and purely for information gathering purposes. It can help us gauge the community's level of engagement with the U.S. Presidential elections.
The survey is sponsored by Kurdish American Committee for Democracy and Human Rights and VOKRadio (Voice of Kurdish American Radio for Democracy, Peace and Freedom).
The results will be publicized in mid August and will be made available for anyone to use in their analysis.
So far more than 2000 people have viewed the survey and a couple hundred have responded. Not all those responses can be counted but it's a good start.
Please take a few moments to fill this out:
Much due respect,
Azad Moradian
Chair of Kurdish American committee for Democracy and Human Rights.
Los Angeles
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How clashes inside Iran remake regional equations?
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Rudaw.net
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How clashes inside Iran remake regional equations?
By: Rudaw
July 5th, 2016
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region-Largely peaceful demonstrators in the Iranian city of Isfahan called recently on their government to withdraw from Syria and concentrate its efforts instead on its own disfranchised people.
"Let Go of Syria; Think of Iran," was the slogan chanted in rhyming Persian by hundreds of marchers last Friday. It was chanted, ironically, at the annual Quds public rally, which is held every year on the last Friday of Ramadan to mark commitment to the liberation of Palestine.
Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran has been seen as virtually the only regional super power in the Middle East without a formidable internal opposition that could effectively destabilize its regional grip.
While Turkey, Iraq, Egypt and even the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have constantly been dealing with separatist or extremist groups within their borders, Iran has successfully been able to sideline or dismantle powerful political parties and their armed wings such as the Mujahedin-e-Khalq and the once influential Communist Party, the Toudeh.
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