Less than a
day after the article As Syrian Kurds gaining ground, Turkey seeks a pretext for invasion
published in the blog, a bloody bomb attack occurred in the Turkish capital Ankara, leaving
at least 28 dead and 61 injured. Indeed, the Turkish government
rushed to blame Syrian Kurds for the attack.
From RT
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Turkish
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has accused forces linked with the
Syrian Kurdish YPG militia of the terrorist attack in Ankara on
Wednesday. Ankara promised to continue to shell the YPG, with the
Syrian Kurds denying all allegations and saying Islamic State is
behind the attack.
In a live
television speech, Prime Minister Davutoglu said Turkey has
identified the perpetrator of the Ankara bombing attack as Salih
Necer, born in northern Syria's Amuda province in 1992. He added
the suspect has links to the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia. Davutoglu
added the alleged attacker received assistance from the Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK), which is outlawed by Ankara. Davutoglu said
the attack showed the Syrian Kurdish YPG is a terrorist
organization and that Turkey expects cooperation from its allies
against the group.
[...]
Kurdish
self-defense forces did not organize the attack in Ankara, Kurdish
Democratic Union (PYD) chief Salih Muslim Muhammad told RIA
Novosti.
[...]
On Tuesday, at a closed-door
meeting, called to discuss recent Turkish shelling of Kurdish YPG
militia targets in Syria's north, the UN Security Council urged
Ankara to comply with international law in Syria. The UN Security
Council received a letter from the Syrian government in which
Damascus condemned Turkey’s attacks in the north of the country.
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If the
Syrian Kurds were indeed responsible for the attack, there would be
no point for YPG to deny it so quickly. Ankara appears to be
extremely anxious to find a pretext for a ground invasion in Northern
Syria, but not without the permission of the US and the NATO, because
of the strong Russian military presence.
As
moonofalabama
reports:
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The bombing in Ankara yesterday
[17/2] killed 27 mostly military people. It was a big car bomb and
a suicide attack.The Turkish government claims that the person who
did this was one Saleh Nejar and also claims that he is connected
to the Syrian Kurdish group YPG.
There is no way to verify this. But
the YPG has so fare never used any car bombs or done any suicide
attacks. It never touched any target in Turkey. It officially
denied to have taken any part in it.
The Turkish group PKK has done
vehicle bomb attacks and a few suicide attacks but not in Ankara
or any other major west-Turkish city. Its attacks are usually
operational, not strategic like this one.
In the last Turkish version of its
magazine the Islamic State had called for attacks in Turkey and on
Turkish soldiers. It is the entity that has most to win through
such an attack that would predictably be blamed on the Kurds.
[...]
The attack could also have been
arranged by the Turkish secret service MIT. But the number and
type of casualties seems to be too high and valuable for a
stage-managed false flag attack.
[...]
The Turkish government called in the
ambassadors of the permanent members of the UN Security Council to
present its evidence. A "western diplomat" told the Wall
Street Journal that the evidence shown was "not conclusive".
That is the diplomatese expression for "bullshit". The
Turkish attempt to use the attack to change the U.S. and EU
relations to the YPK failed. The YPK and its associated Arab and
Turkmen forces is a very valuable asset for the U.S. to fight the
Islamic State. It will refrain from condemning it as long as that
is the case.
[...]
Yesterdays attack in Ankara has
moved less than expected. While the Turks would like to enter
Syria and fight the Syrian government troops as well as the YPG
they are to afraid of the Russian forces to go alone. NATO and the
U.S. are for now unwilling to give them any cover.
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Although it
cannot be verified whether the attack was a false flag or not,
various Turkish regimes, in different periods, have a long
"tradition" in such operations, in order to achieve
specific goals. CIA-type false flags, designed by the regimes, had
been occasionally coordinated with corresponding CIA operations
during the first Cold War. Such an operation, was the bomb attack
against Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki, which led to the pogroms
against Greek minority on 6–7 September 1955 in Istanbul.
From
Wikipedia
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The Istanbul pogrom, also known as
the Istanbul riots or September events, was organized mob attacks
directed primarily at Istanbul's Greek minority on 6–7 September
1955. The riots were orchestrated by the Tactical Mobilization
Group, the seat of Operation Gladio's Turkish branch; the
Counter-Guerrilla, and National Security Service, the precursor of
today's National Intelligence Organization.
The events were triggered by the
false news that the Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki, in northern
Greece—the house where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk had been born in
1881—had been bombed the day before. A bomb planted by a Turkish
usher at the consulate, who was later arrested and confessed,
incited the events.
The Turkish press, conveying the
news in Turkey, was silent about the arrest and instead insinuated
that Greeks had set off the bomb.
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It appears
that this time, at least for now, Turkey fails to exploit terrorist
attacks in its soil, in order to extract the permission of the US and
the NATO allies for a ground operation inside Syrian territories. The
Russian presence is definitely a preventive factor, but it seems that
the relations between the US and Turkey are not in their best shape,
mostly because of the US strategy concerning the Kurdish issue. As
mentioned in previous articles:
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The relations between the United
States and other major countries inside the alliance appear to be
in a quite bad shape, especially those with Germany and Turkey.
[...] Concerning Turkey, it is known that the US promote the
creation of a Kurdish state because it serves better their
interests. This is totally unacceptable for Erdoğan,who is
occupied by the illusion of the Turkish expansionism. Washington
is not very happy seeing ISIS being used by Turkey to fight Kurds,
instead of operating in full force against Assad regime.
Turkey exploits the chaos in
Syria to enhance the Syrian Turkomans and fulfill Erdogan's dreams
for territorial and influential expansion in the wider Middle
East. [...] Turkey also exploits the current chaos and tries to
crush Kurdish resistance. One of the reasons that supports ISIS is
to use it against the Kurds. It is a sub-proxy war by Turkey in
the area according to its own agenda. The US are probably not very
happy with that, because they want to use ISIS in full force
against Assad and consider Kurds as allies.
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