Warning bells for the US in the Middle East

Turkey's involvement in the developments in Syria through Jarablus about a month ago has undoubtedly heralded a new and hope-filled stage for the Syrian people. Because everywhere in Syria that Turkey has entered, the people of that region have returned to their homes, and none of those who were already continuing to live there has had to leave their home. At the holiday, the aid Turkey provided to the regions Turkey had liberated from DAESH, and the fraternization of the Turkish soldiers with the local people, bearing not the slightest fear or unease in the eyes of the people of the region, was an important sight.

This sight alone is enough to show the world Turkey's difference from the other actors involved in the Syrian equation. All the others leave behind, in the places they enter, dominate and control, only deaths, destruction and heaps of human migrations. Whether Iran or Russia, whether the Syrian government or all the operations of the US, only death, destruction, asylum-seeking and ethnic cleansing are seen behind them.

Only Turkey, in this process, saves people's lives wherever it enters, rebuilds instead of destroying, and, let alone asylum, ensures return home.

Return home, or the settled people of a place, is in fact the most important measure of the legitimacy of the operations carried out or the policies pursued in such situations. What others are looking for in Syria and what they are doing, the best judges of that are the inhabitants of those places.

Why do the people of those areas have to flee from the places entered in the name of fighting DAESH?

If the aim is really fighting DAESH, why is the bill for this fight ultimately presented only to the people living in that region?

After all the operations that all countries conducted in Syria in the name of fighting DAESH, thousands of people had to leave their homes and most had to take refuge in Turkey. It is very clear that there is something strange in this. And a result of this strangeness is that US soldiers, who decided to take part in ground operations carried out, again in the fight against DAESH, on a common denominator in which Turkey also takes part, were protested by the people in Çobanbey. Because it was a ground operation, the people were able to find an opportunity to make this protest.

Unfortunately, in many places the people cannot even find this possibility to protest, because under the bombs raining on their heads they cannot even lift their heads.

At present there is no reasonable justification that either the US or any other external actor can offer the Syrian people for its presence in Syria.

From what violence are these coming to save the Syrian people?

To the Syrian people, whose first priority is to be rid of Assad's tyranny, the US comes and promises deliverance from DAESH, which was not at all on their agenda, but the reflection of this deliverance on the Syrian people, by the savior itself, is more massacre, destruction and ethnic cleansing.

America's friendship hurts more than its enmity. When it goes after something it has identified as a problem somewhere, it does not solve that problem but deepens it

. Turkey suffers from this principle, as do the Syrian people and, in the past, the Iraqi people. In the face of America's voicing a problem, everyone now needs to be very careful. For it is now strongly probable that a problem that did not exist at all is thus created, and as this problem is scratched, it is made ever bigger.

The US, with an experience of problem-solving that left Iraq, where it laid its hands, uninhabitable, should in fact have been much more careful in approaching the Syria issue by drawing lessons from the Iraq experience.

It would especially have been to its own benefit to act in more dialogue with Turkey, heeding Turkey's warnings

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At the point we have reached, after an Iraq made uninhabitable, there is again a Syria whose crisis has been deepened thoroughly by this US intervention and where every US intervention has confused matters further.

At the end of the day, the picture before us is that, had the US ignored Syria, the problems in Syria could have been solved much more easily and on their own.

The US's putting the fight against DAESH among its priorities in Syria meant in itself direct support for the Assad regime, which is the root of the problem in Syria. On top of that, its adoption as an ally against terror with DAESH of the PYD, the extension of the PKK that is on the agenda every day with terror activities against Turkey, and its doing business with it, showed that the US has no ethical or legal principles whatsoever.

The same US could, if it takes it into its head tomorrow, leave all its allies out in the cold, come to an agreement with DAESH and form an alliance with it too against others

. We can expect this at any moment. At the point we have reached, the US's discourse of being against terror has no credibility left. The US is against terror not on principle but entirely conjuncturally and only against some terrors.

The sensitivity that the US ambassador swiftly displayed over the HDP municipalities handed over to trustees

"because they were supporting terror"

also shows that in this conjuncture the PKK is seen as an indirect ally as well.

This inconsistency the US displays on terror in fact harms the US itself

. The US is increasingly beginning to be seen in the region as an ally whose friendship cannot be trusted, even an ally whose friendship does more harm than its enmity. This perception is one that has become valid not only in Turkey but in all the countries of the region.

With this perception, what kind of effectiveness does it calculate it will display in regional peace, stability and, of course, power struggle?

Who gives this mind to US officials, truly the US administration needs to confront this. It is not for us to say...