Turkey targets US-backed Syrian Kurdish peace talks
Turkey is openly disgruntled over the US-backed effort to unite disparate Syrian Kurdish factions that kicked off last month.
Turkey has begun to openly signal its displeasure with US-backed peace talks between Syrian Kurdish rival groups, raising the specter of failure for the latest US attempt to fulfill what have so far proven irreconcilable goals: to pursue its partnership with the Kurds and to repair ties with its NATO ally, Ankara, which have been badly frayed because of it.
Turkish disgruntlement was palpable in a May 11 dispatch in Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency. It characterized the effort to unite disparate Syrian Kurdish factions as more of a conspiracy aimed at creating “international representation space” for the “terrorist organization in northern Syria.”
The same day, the Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement blasting Greece, Egypt, Cyprus and the UAE over their ongoing standoff in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
It also accused France, the aspiring mentor of “this axis of malice” of “intentions to establish a state of terror in Syria,” ostensibly over its involvement in the Syrian Kurdish peace talks.
