Why Turkey and the US are Fighting in Syria

While all the media's attention has been focused on Israel recently, another crisis has been brewing in Syria, where the US and Turkey have been spatting since earlier this month. So, what is happening in Northern Syria and what could happen next?

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[Turgineer]

"What are you doing in Syria, Turkey?"

"What are you doing 9 thousand kilometers away from the American continent, USA?"

[Hnrcckl]

Turkish army should go to the Mexico border to protect Mexicans and secure their mineral sources.

[elesad]

The real question is „what the f*** is the usa doing in syria?“

Edit: this was a rhetorical question

[cenkesgin]

The real question is:
“Why US is even in Syria?”

[balporsugu.]

The EU often uses discourse on democracy and human rights to criticize Turkey, especially its counter-terrorism policies. However, we see that EU countries are approving, even supporting, Israel's severe violations of the Geneva Convention in its attacks on Gaza. The statement by the Israeli Defence Minister, giving the Israeli army free rein to do whatever they want, has not even been criticized by the EU. The EU has lost all its credibility on democracy and human rights during the bombing of Gaza. From now on, if you criticize Turkey on counter-terrorism, the response you will get from the Turks will be "go to hell."

[blackknght]

I think it's important to mention that a member not seeing eye to eye with NATO isn't just a Turkey thing, in the past decade France has multiple times take the opposite stance on NATO, the biggest example being the post-Gadhafi era in Libya where they supported a wanna be strong man and dictator Khalifah Haftar against both the UN and NATO.

[sapphyrus]

Imagine Turkey arming & training Mexican cartels in Northern Mexico which would cross over the border and attack the Capitol with rocket launchers.

[memethememer]

As a Turk I want to say this: I dont want terrorists in my country. And America is supporting this terrorist groups. ( Those groups have plans for us ) Btw there is no Turkish-Kurdish conflicts in Türkiye. We live with peace. Our problem is with terrorism!

[bobmcbob]

The map of US bases corresponds pretty well with the map of oil fields

[akha]

american propaganda "we fight for freedom "
TRUMP "its all about the oil "😂😂😂

[nxx]

In the Video it was forgotten to mention that turkey also hosts more than 3, 5 million syrian refugees which were planned to be settled in the regions controlled by türkiye.

[Lexical_Honey]

Im sorry but the map depicting kurdish majority areas are plagued with errors considering you marked the Tuz Golu as majority Kurdish alongside big chunks of Konya, Kirsehir and Ankara which are definetely not majority kurdish

[doludeli]

Turkiye has more than 1000 kms of borders with Syria and Iraq, that's why it is concernd with the out of the control, out of the government events in those countries.. Then, how many kms of borders the US has with those countries, how many kms the US away from this location of the earth, why the US interfere all the events take place here, what is the explanation of "American profits"???

[markmuller]

In a way Turkey is right, it's hypocritical to fight a terrorist organisation by supporting another terrorist organisation just because the other one didn't kill civilians in your own country... Yet

[bgsylci]

Imagine Turkey supports an uprising in Mexico that involves Latins in the US and next to the US's borders and Turkey shot downs an US drone in Mexico. This exactly what happens in Syria.

[Markus.]

I have a great idea 💡 maybe America should give Texas to them

[koyba]

Why does America expect turkey to not attack the ypg but is perfectly happy with israel attacking hamas

[dynamite]

You had some mistakes also on the history, in fact during the Turkish War of Independence, Kurdish people sided with Turkish rebels and they didn't want independence until the land reforms started. Even then the resistance was not ethnicity based, it was the landlords who started rebellions claiming "Turkey is becoming Christian" or some religious bullshit. Real ethnic Kurdish movement for separation started after the coup at 1980 since they were very harsh towards all leftist people but especially Kurds, they even banned the Kurdish language.

[kevincronk]

I'm not a fan of almost anything erdogan does, but even as an American I've gotta admit he's kinda right about the YPG. Western nations like the US agree with Turkey that the PKK is a terrorist group and also have them designated as such, and there are links between the UPG and the PKK. So it's kind of hypocritical of us to support the YPG if we are opposed to terrorism and designate the PKK as a terrorist group. I understand and support wanting to protect the kurds, but maybe not by going through an organization which is at best linked to terrorists.