How the US prods Turkey in Syria

6 July 20213 years ago babelfish

All the latest news in relations between the US and Turkey in Syria. The article by Giuseppe Gagliano

According to reports from the Reuters news agency, the US has included Turkey in the list of countries that use child soldiers.

Specifically, the US State Department established in its Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report from 2021 that Turkey was providing "tangible support" to Sultan Murad's armed brigade in Syria, a Syrian opposition faction that Ankara has long argued and a group Washington accuses of recruiting and using child soldiers in recent years.

On the same day, in a statement, the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Turkey expressed its first reaction to Washington's decision. This is an absolutely flawless answer from a factual point of view.

“It is the most striking example of hypocrisy of the United States, which openly supports the terrorist organization PKK-PYD-YPG, which recruits children in various terrorist attacks in Syria and Iraq. The so-called "Syrian Democratic Forces" are under the control of the terrorist organization PKK / YPG and have committed many violations and serious crimes such as the forced recruitment of children in Syria, kidnapping, deprivation of liberty, use of schools for purposes military. This fact was also confirmed in the report by Virginia Gamba on 21 June 2021, the United Nations special representative for children and armed conflict ”.

However, the fact that State Department spokesman Ned Price denied the prospect that the news could damage Turkish-American cooperation seems, on the surface, paradoxical especially after the very recent meeting between Biden and Erdogan. Inevitable the question arises: will this belated insertion of Turkey not be the direct consequence of the fact that Washington does not accept the Turkish policy in Syria which strongly damages American interests?

Will the inclusion of Turkey on this black list not serve the US to exert, through the political use of the violation of human rights, credible political pressure on the Turkish choices made in Syria?

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/come-gli-usa-pungolano-la-turchia-in-siria/ on Tue, 06 Jul 2021 08:17:42 +0000.