Whether or not it is wise for the US to be backing the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), this shows yet again that the old Cold War alliances have far outlived their usefulness, and the US needs to reconfigure its international relationships on the basis of the new realities of the global jihad. This has begun to happen with Erdogan’s Turkey, which is neither a friend nor an ally of the United States, but few recognize that fact yet.
“Turkey shells US-backed Kurdish militia positions in Syria: media,” AFP, October 28, 2018:
ISTANBUL (AFP) – Turkey’s military on Sunday fired artillery shells at a Kurdish militia in Syria that is backed by the United States but deemed a terrorist group by Ankara, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
The shells targeted “shelters” of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) east of the Euphrates River in the Kobane region of northern Syria, Anadolu said.
The strikes come a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted a summit in Istanbul on the Syrian conflict with the leaders of Russia, France and Germany, in which they adopted a joint statement committing to work “together in order to create conditions for peace and stability in Syria”….