{"id":764,"date":"2021-06-14T00:11:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T22:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=764"},"modified":"2023-06-29T23:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T21:23:09","slug":"commentaries-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"Commentaries #5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Turkey\u2019s dealing with the Syrian Kurds (Part I)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Gunter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Executive Summary: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This wide-ranging survey of the Kurds in Syria will evaluate the mid-term fall-out of the suddenly announced US withdrawal on October 7, 2019. It concludes that 1. The US dishonorably deserted its Syrian Kurdish ally, 2. Alienated future allies who would no longer trust it, 3. Allowed some of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) prisoners incarcerated by YPG guards to escape and potentially revive the genocidal jihadist organization, 4. Rewarded Turkish aggression, 5. Handed the murderous, but badly taxed Assad regime new life, 6. Facilitated Iran\u2019s drive to the Mediterranean and potential threat to Israel, and, maybe most of all, 7. Empowered Russia as the ultimate arbitrator of the Syrian imbroglio to the detriment of the United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Commentary-5_Gunter_Turkeys-dealing-with-the-Syrian-Kurds_part-I.pdf\"><strong>Commentary-5_Gunter_Turkeys-dealing-with-the-Syrian-Kurds_part-I<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Commentary-5_Gunter_Turkeys-dealing-with-the-Syrian-Kurds_part-I.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s dealing with the Syrian Kurds (Part I) Michael Gunter Executive Summary: This wide-ranging survey of the Kurds in Syria will evaluate the mid-term fall-out of the suddenly announced US withdrawal on October 7, 2019. It concludes that 1. The&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=764\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}