Whose border will NATO protect against whom?

We are watching a very dangerous scene of the game the US is playing in Syria, one aimed at driving the entire region into instability. After having long promoted the terrorist organization DAESH as the greatest danger the world has ever seen, it turned eliminating this danger into an advance and inexhaustible source of credit for any activity, alliance or massacre it might undertake.

To this end, it armed another terrorist organization, the PYD, with unbelievable generosity and gave it every kind of support. In doing so, it ignored all the warnings of Turkey, its ally in NATO and moreover the country it had until now declared and treated as a strategic partner in all its policies in the Middle East.

The PYD is merely the Syrian, renamed version of the PKK, which has for years carried out hostile terror activities against Turkey. It is out of the question that the US does not know this; indeed, when necessary, it even admits it. Yet it puts forward the DAESH danger as the excuse for this cooperation with the PYD, and even this pretext is now extremely far from convincing.

Increasingly, the real causal relationship in this cooperation has become clear in another way: the real DAESH danger was produced and processed by the US solely in order to make room for the PYD, to turn it into a hero and to make it a proxy actor. In fact, whenever one looked at the course of the PYD-DAESH-US relationship on the ground, the nature of this relationship could not be placed on any other logic.

Although no DAESH danger remains in Syria, or this danger has largely been removed, it has been announced that a 30,000-strong border protection force will be set up for the PYD, the extension of the PKK, which is recognized as a terrorist organization even according to the US's own official documents.

Why and against whom the US is establishing this force is evidently not at all unclear in its own mind. The only thing is that it has hidden this fact from its allies, from the legitimate actors of the region, from those who regard it as a friend. Otherwise, what could be the logic of the US, as a NATO member, deploying a unit that is an enemy of Turkey on the border of Turkey, another NATO member? Whose border will the US protect, and against whom?

At yesterday's AK Parti group meeting, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rightly reminded that the first priority of the US as a NATO member is to protect the borders of a NATO member. Yet if it is the US itself that threatens the borders of a NATO member country by this action, what meaning is left to NATO? Erdoğan thereupon addresses NATO rather than the US and says "O NATO!" "You are also obliged to take a stand against those who commit any border violation against one of your partners. What kind of stand have you taken so far? We have told them this, and we are telling them. Our Chief of the General Staff is talking, and will talk, with them about this."

The truth is that under Article 4 of NATO, a member country can call the other member countries to a meeting for consultations if its national security, territorial integrity or independence is endangered. Because the national security, territorial integrity or independence of one member concerns all the other member countries, and is seen as a threat to their own national security and integrity as well. Article 5 of the treaty requires an attack on one member country to be regarded as an attack on all.

Truly, it is necessary to analyze correctly why the US is undertaking this dangerous adventure, which requires it both to trample all its own standards, values and measures concerning terrorism and to lose all its friends. If the US is coming out of this adventure having lost all the values and acquis that make America America, it must be expecting something in return. Was not everything interest in international relations? What interest does the US have in this? If there is anyone who can think on behalf of the US and calculate the interest in this, let them come forward.

Truly, the only explanation, once again, of this dangerous adventure that is far from all rationality and interest even from the US's standpoint:

The US is carrying out this business in subordination to a bigoted religious understanding of history. Evidently it is putting into practice, step by step, the Zionist program that will occupy a geography from the Nile to the Euphrates. In this program it sees the Kurds within the PYD-PKK organization as an element it can use in its own way, that can carry its program and serve it.

The activities they have carried out so far in Turkey or in Syria take on a different meaning within this strategic whole. For them the liberation of the Kurds or Kurdish identity has no importance whatsoever; what matters is the role assigned to them within this Zionist program...

Those who wrote this role are clear. So far, of course, this program has not been staged flawlessly as they wished. And it will not be from now on either. Whatever the plan in their heads, what they find before them now is a Turkey that upsets all their plans, forces them to revise at every step, and, as they revise, lowers all their masks one by one and disgraces them before the world.

Turkey will continue from now on to prevent them from carrying out these plans. If they are ready to commit suicide, no one will worry about their lives.