Turkey offers the US a chance to turn back from damage

The talks between Turkey and the US, ongoing for quite some time, about establishing a peace corridor against the terror corridor in northeastern Syria reached a certain point in the talks held during a visit by a US delegation in recent days.

In fact, Turkey's demands, intentions and plan on this matter are extremely open and clear. What Turkey wants is a plan that will harm no one, but of course will not give a terrorist organization the chance to be stationed there.

The problems that appear to be making the agreement difficult and slowing it down stem from the US not being open, clear and transparent on this matter. No one has understood what the US wants to do in Syria. As far as can be seen, it is itself confused on the matter. The mind coming from the Pentagon and the mind coming from the White House do not agree with each other. As things stand, the Pentagon's plan has cancelled Trump's, and the plan now being dwelt upon is the plan the US has been implementing from the beginning.

The point the US has reached in Syria by supporting one terrorist organization against another shows that the US is not in essence against terror. Moreover, the fact that it continues to support this terrorist organization even though it is clearly harming the security of its own ally shows once more that the US's alliance can never be trusted.

Moreover, after the Syrian people, it is Turkey that pays the heaviest price for all the policies the US is implementing in Syria. It would not be at all exaggerated to say that the whole of the Syrian refugee problem we face today is the result of these incomprehensible, untrustworthy US policies. From the very start, by turning its aim, instead of toppling Assad, which it had declared as its reason for coming to Syria, to fighting an organization of unclear identity called DAEŞ, it gave signs of what kind of secret dealings it was in with whom. Yet frankly, in the best case, DAEŞ's reason for existence was the Assad regime itself. Of course the more real possibility is that this dark murder organization is, from long ago, a workshop-made US production.

At the end of the day, DAEŞ has played the role merely of a pretext or a skeleton key for a plan to be implemented unilaterally in Syria. No one other than Turkey has fought this dark organization sincerely and properly.

No one other than Turkey is sincere about fighting DAEŞ. There are tons of information that militants who left DAEŞ immediately joined the PYD ranks after cutting or trimming their beards. This situation sufficiently shows that the fight between them is not a genuine fight either. Whom do they think they are fooling?

So what ends up happening in the end? In Syria, ethnic cleansing takes place through a complete demographic operation. Nearly a third of the Syrian people have moved abroad, and more than half have been displaced within the country.

The direct effect on Turkey of the US insisting on doing business with the PYD is the Syrian migration to Turkey from Manbij and the regions east of the Euphrates, owing to the ethnic cleansing being carried out by the PYD. None of the humanitarian, economic and political problems this produces affects or concerns the US. For this reason the US does not even care about the problems arising from this.

Yet in reports that Amnesty International has been publishing since as early as 2015, attention is drawn to the humanitarian disasters that the PYD's daring to carry out ethnic cleansing has created and could create further in Manbij and the regions east of the Euphrates, which the PYD controls under US protection and where the Arab population reaches 95 percent. Of course the PYD undertakes all these things, which it could never dare with its own natural forces, with US support and direction.

Meanwhile, the US has no argument it can put forward to explain its insistence on this support to the PYD. Its saying that it will not sell out the PYD, which it says it uses for the sake of fighting DAEŞ, also has no logic and no consistency. If you load 7000 truckloads of weapons onto a dead donkey, you would get a force out of it. This shows not that the PYD has been successful in fighting DAEŞ, but only the US's wrong choice and its insistence on this choice. In the end the US, by implementing a program that is of no benefit to anyone in our region and is not open and transparent to anyone, does nothing but increase the chaos in the region.

Turkey, for its part, while wanting from the beginning to implement a safe zone inside Syria, was proposing a measure that would protect the whole Syrian people against these ethnic cleansing activities, and at the same time was thinking of keeping the migration directed toward itself inside Syria. Whatever Turkey proposed in Syria, it proposed by way of measures against developments whose consequences directly concern its own security. The pursuit of Syria's territorial integrity, stability and internal peace is the essence of these measures. Anything that would threaten them contributes nothing to the Syrian people, nor to the people of the region, nor to world peace.

For the US, explaining its presence in Syria, from some 8 thousand km away, which does not concern it directly in any way, is one problem; the fact that with these wrong policies it has caused humanitarian problems whose price the countries of the region have to pay is another.

Turkey's insistence on a peace corridor east of the Euphrates, let no one worry, is not a step against Kurds or against any ethnic group, but only a measure against a terror corridor whose result is ethnic cleansing and the partitioning of Syria. For the US to understand this at last and work more closely with Turkey is also for its own good. Because the path it has taken today is on the verge of exhausting the whole 300-year accumulation of its values..

The US is losing; the plan Turkey is offering, from whichever angle you look, actually offers it an opportunity to turn back from a part of the loss.