'The Policy of Growth Through Division' is exactly this!...

One of the pro-government writers, after stating that the two priority and important issues for Turkey in Syria are the "elimination of the YPG/PYD terrorist structure" and "giving the new administration a chance," offered the following suggestions for the eradication of the terrorist structure:

"Armed elements laying down their arms. Those who have not been involved in crimes being integrated into the security system in Syria. Those linked to crimes benefiting from remorse reductions. Encouraging the adaptation of those who have served their sentences to daily life. Even steps related to the disbanding of the PKK terrorist organization in Turkey could be considered in this context."

It is not just this writer; Minister of National Defense Yaşar Güler also stated, "Our priority issue is the elimination of the PKK/YPG terrorist organization," and noted the following:

"We have expressed this clearly and plainly to our American friends as well. We expect them to re-evaluate their positions. In the new era, the PKK/YPG terrorist organization in Syria will be eliminated sooner or later. Both the new administration in Syria and we want this. Organization members coming from outside Syria will leave Syria. Those who are Syrian will lay down their arms. We have no problem with our Kurdish brothers living in Iraq or Syria. Our problem is only and solely with the terrorists."

DO WE NOT HAVE A PRIORITY TO PREVENT SEVRES/BOP?

Besides the elimination of the terrorist organization, do we not have another priority issue?

Such as preventing the division of Syria, just like Iraq, in other words, the implementation of the Sèvres/BOP (Greater Middle East Project).

Let us also look at the views of Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, who appears to play a leading role in Turkey's trajectory on these matters.

As if Israel had not collapsed the Syrian army, he referred the task of eliminating the terrorist organization to Syria's new administration for now with the words, "They need to retake the areas under the control of the YPG/PKK. There is now a new administration in Damascus. The YPG/PKK issue is primarily their problem."

While stating that they want to separate the Kurds in Syria from the terrorist organization PKK, he used an expression like "legitimate representatives of the Kurds" and announced that they support them in defending the rights of Syrian Kurds in Damascus.

More importantly, there was his answer to the question of "whether an autonomous region or entity in northern Syria would pose a threat to Turkey."

He said:

"I don't think it would be right for me to speak on behalf of the Syrian people, because this is an issue that the Syrians will decide."

Who will decide the future of Syria is clear from today: it will be what those who pay the money and those who will write the new constitution say!..

It is also known what the YPG/PKK, which is under the protection of the US and Western states, wants; they are after a federal structure.

WHERE WILL THE PKK GO WHEN IT LEAVES SYRIA?

Moving from the expectations of Minister of National Defense Yaşar Güler and Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan regarding the method of eliminating the YPG/PKK, let us also look at the statement by Duran Kalkan, one of the PKK ringleaders in Qandil. He commanded as follows:

"We do not have such a direct connection. That is to say, for example, they exist as advisors. If there are non-Syrian Kurds who are doing some work as individual individuals and if they are associated with the PKK, if the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria decides for them to leave their areas, they will leave. Especially for the PKK members, there is no problem. They take their weapons and cross into Northern Kurdistan. They had already taken their weapons from Northern Kurdistan before. They had crossed into Rojava Kurdistan to fight and resist against DAESH. Tayyip Erdoğan knows this better than anyone. Therefore, there is no problem."

What he calls "Northern Kurdistan" is Turkey!..

Terrorist ringleader Kalkan also proposed the following management model for Syria: "There is a very different ethnic, religious, and sectarian structure. Only a confederal system can unite these circles... The experience of the North and East Syria Autonomous Administration is a situation that will form a model for all of Syria."

Ali Bayramoğlu, one of the "wise people" of the reconciliation process, had said after Bahçeli's overture; "A scenario where Turkey accepts an area granted to Kurds in Rojava with a different name and status, and in return, the Kurdish movement lays down its arms both inside and outside Turkey, could come to the agenda." It seems the process is proceeding in this vein...

The name of the YPG changes, the known PKK members leave there, they are given autonomy, federation, whatever it is; that is, the goal is achieved for Syria as well!..

Well, will they lay down their arms forever? What is possible until the other parts of "Greater Kurdistan" are resolved!..

SIGNIFICANT TIMING: BARZANI IS IN ANKARA

Let us explain the Barzanistan front.

After the developments in Syria, Murat Karayılan, one of the PKK ringleaders in Qandil, stated that "Kurds must form a strong unity among themselves so that the Kurds in Rojava do not fall into a vacuum," and called on the presidents and co-presidents of all parties in the "four parts of Kurdistan," primarily the KDP, to "unite on a platform."

Mazlum Kobani, the terrorist ringleader in Syria, also asked for "Kurdish parties in Rojava to come together" to form a strong negotiation position with Damascus.

Feysel Yusuf, Spokesperson for the Kurdish National Council in Syria (ENKS), which is under Barzani's control, said, "We advocate for Kurds to have a common stance. We uphold the agreement reached in Erbil in 2012 under the supervision of President Masoud Barzani."

The "Kurdish-Kurdish dialogue" has begun.

ENKS set some conditions for the PYD. It reported that Mazlum Kobani must give assurances to Turkey in the form of "We are not PKK members," "We are not against Turkey."

Meanwhile, Abdulhakim Beşar, Vice President of the Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces (SMDK) and ENKS Representative, after meeting with Masoud Barzani, stated, "We want a federation. The future of Syria is federalism," while noting that Barzani said, "You Syrian Kurds come together, and whatever is necessary for the rights of the Kurdish people, and whatever help is asked of me, whatever I can do, I am ready." When asked, "Have you received international guarantees?" Beşar gave this remarkable answer:

"International countries say, 'We are with you as the Syrian people, whatever you decide.' Four issues are very important in the eyes of international powers: a democratic Syria, the rights of the Kurdish people, the protection of other nations, and the protection of women's rights. These are indispensable foundations, especially in the eyes of America and the European Union."

There is no need to explain at length the work that the powers led by the US and France have been doing for years. Their latest initiatives are also known.

A delegation from France went to Qamishli and met with the ENKS delegation... The Foreign Ministers of France and Germany, who met with the new administration of Damascus, said that "the conflicts in Northern Syria must end" and "a solution must be found that protects the security interests of their Kurdish partners in the Syrian Democratic Forces with whom they fought together against ISIS"... French Foreign Minister Jean Noel Barrot had a detailed phone conversation with the terrorist ringleader in Syria, Mazlum Kobani, on "the future of the Kurds and the restructuring of Syria," and said, "A political solution must be reached with the Kurds, who are France's allies."... Finally, it was reported that US Representative for "Rojava affairs" Scott Bowles, who held a meeting with ENKS officials in Qamishli, emphasized that "the Kurdish side must unite and negotiate with Syria's interim government as a single voice."

And yesterday, we saw that the Prime Minister of Barzanistan, Masrour Barzani, came to Ankara and met with Erdoğan as well as Foreign Minister Fidan.

A quite significant timing, isn't it?!

THE FLOOR IS BAHÇELİ'S

Let us leave the floor to MHP Leader Devlet Bahçeli, the partner of the People's Alliance, regarding the Barzani-Syria-Ankara relationship.

Bahçeli, in 2012, when the civil war began in Syria and Barzani got involved, summarized the following:

- "Peshmerga chief Barzani is a friend and brother to both of them [Erdoğan and BDP]... The fact that Peshmerga chief Barzani is organizing a meeting by bringing Syrian Kurds together and calling for unity indicates that the time bomb right next to us could explode at any moment."

- "Open partisanship in the fighting and internal strife in Syria has destroyed our national interests and paved the way for the awakening of the century-old Sèvres dream... Developments show that, in fact, the AKP has been persuaded regarding the controlled construction of Kurdistan."

- "The AKP ship, which ran aground in the shallow waters of the BOP, is taking on water rapidly, and in panic and desperation, it is begging for a lifebuoy from Barzani... The fact that Barzani shows his existence as the subject and unchanging factor of AKP foreign policy is equivalent to a declaration of helplessness and incapacity, no matter how you look at it... Discussing the developments in northern Syria with the Peshmerga administration has reaffirmed who the primary interlocutor in this matter is. It is among the undeniable and well-known facts that Barzani trains militants in Peshmerga camps and directs them to Syria. He is the same person who gathers Kurdish groups in Syria in Erbil and hosts short and long-term planning. If it is remembered, the Syrian Kurds who came together under the leadership of Barzani on July 12 decided to act together, and in this meeting, it was decided that the PYD, the Syrian structure of the terrorist organization PKK, would also be included in the delegation formed from Kurds in accordance with the agreement."

- "Dreamers in northern Syria are even making a confederation proposal to Turkey through the media. The policy of growth through division is exactly this. First autonomy, then federation, in the following time confederation, and finally, in a not-so-distant time interval, the ribbon of Kurdistan will most likely be cut by the regulars of the BOP. In the final scene of the BOP, it has already become clear that Kurdistan and Barzani will bow to greet the audience who are worried about their seats."

- "This is a century-old trap that has been plotted and insidiously projected in the political laboratories of the West. The Turkish nation is about to be cornered in this direction."

In the face of accelerating developments, let us repeat the question we have been asking for years:

Okay, no to "Terroristan"; but what do you say to a "Second Barzanistan, Kobanistan, or Müslümistan"?!

Müyesser YILDIZ

January 8, 2025