Regional cooperation against separatist terrorism

While Turkey struggles against the US-backed PKK terrorist organization targeting our country from northern Iraq and Syria, it is discussing both the military measures to be taken and the political and diplomatic steps that must be implemented. We must discuss all of these, but without ever forgetting that the real major enemy is the US. It is known that the US aims to divide four regional countries and establish a Kurdish state with a coast on the Mediterranean—in other words, a second Israel, a garrison state.

The support it has provided to the PKK terrorist organization, which carried out its first attack in 1984, is known to everyone. The moves it has made against Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, which terrorist organizations it has supported, and whom it has pushed to the front lines to divide these countries are all established by facts, evidence, and documents. For example, let us consider Iraq. Iraq has experienced three major wars in the last 40 years. The first was the Iran-Iraq War, which lasted from 1980 to 1988. The second was the Gulf War in 1990–1991. The third was the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Millions of people died in these wars. Infrastructure suffered great damage. Political, social, cultural, religious, sectarian, and ethnic divisions and tensions in the country increased even further. Instability, corruption, poverty, unemployment, chaos, terrorism, and armed conflicts have practically become institutionalized. Under pressure from the US, Iraq was effectively divided into three. A structure emerged in which Kurds are dominant in the north of the country, Sunnis in the center, and Shiites in the south. The constitution dictated by the US was written according to ethnic and sectarian quotas, compartments, and allocations. Such as: the President will be Kurdish, the Prime Minister will be Shiite, and the Speaker of Parliament will be Sunni... With the impact of the US occupation and the US-backed ISIS terrorism seen since 2014, the country became even more unstable. During this process, Iran's influence over Iraq increased even further.

In Iraq, where central state authority is weak and the economy is fragile, the US and Israel openly support the Kurdistan Regional Government in the north of the country and the Barzani family. The regional government, which gained official autonomy in 2005, is in the hands of the Barzani family. In Iraq, where the proportion of Shiites in the population is roughly two-thirds, the Turkmens—who are also known as the country's educated, enlightened, urban, and merchant class—are not influential in the country's administration. Moreover, they are also divided along sectarian lines (Shiite and Sunni). The misguided policy pursued by Turkey also played a role in this division.

Although they make up 13 percent of the population across Iraq and 25 percent of the population in the north of Iraq where they live densely, they were massacred and exiled after the 2003 US invasion; their land registry records, population records, and archives were burned, destroyed, and looted.

While these events were taking place in Iraq and Syria had been struggling with US imperialism since March 2011, the US also bore down on Iran and Turkey with various tools, methods, and coup attempts. During this process, Iran further developed its relations with China and Russia. It was heavily affected by economic sanctions but resisted. It expanded its alliances. Following its increasing influence in Iraq and Syria, it became a member of first the SCO, then BRICS. It normalized its relations with Saudi Arabia. Under these conditions, what Turkey must do is to lead regional alliances, just as Atatürk did. To take initiative on this matter. To develop cooperation among regional countries struggling with the US threat.