Paphitis wrote:Tim Drayton wrote:More signs that the West is realising that it will get nowhere in the fight against DAESH by cooperating with the Islamofascist kleptocrats (whom they helped to install) in Ankara:
In policy shift, US opens direct talks with Syrian Kurds
The Obama administration acknowledged Thursday that a U.S. official for the first time met with a representative of a Syrian Kurdish political party that’s closely linked to a group on the U.S. terrorist list.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said a U.S. diplomat met with a counterpart from the main Kurdish political party in Syria – the Democratic Union Party, better known by its Kurdish acronym as the PYD – to discuss the U.S.-led fight against the Islamic State. The PYD’s militia is engaged in fierce battles with the Islamist extremists, especially near the town of Kobani along the border with Turkey.
The direct talks are a sign of the shifting alliances created by the rise of the Islamic State.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/10/17/ ... irect.html
There is a major development in that Australia too had the Peshmerga, YPG and PKK on the terrorist list.
They have been removed from that list and had to be because the Australian SAS is deploying to provide the Peshmerga with tactical training. This was done a long time ago just prior to a RAAF Galaxy Heavy Lift landing at a Peshmerga controlled Aerodrome in order to deliver Russian made weapons which were sourced from another country (still have not been able to verify who).
It's about time the US took them off the terrorist list as well!!!! Idiots!!!
The way that the autonomous Kurdish regime in north Iraq, whose relations with Rojava have not been cordial, but whose relations with the AKP regime in Turkey are, is now taking a stronger position in favour of their fellow Kurds in Syria, is significant, in my opinion. It seems that peshmerga fighters are on their way to Kobane via Turkey.
