The Syrian war spreads in Turkey

The attack in Turkey opens a new front in the Syrian issue. According to the Turkish authorities the terrorist act was carried out by the organization Kurdish Syrian, fighting in Syria against the moderate Sunni militias backed by Ankara. The attack could be a response to military actions that the Turks are waging in Syria against its own Kurdish fighters, to prevent the emergence of an independent Kurdish state on their borders. The military Turkey have intensified their military operations against the Kurds in Syria, raising protests from Damascus. According to Ankara another possibility is that there is just behind the attack Assad, who does not like the presence of the Turkish armed forces operating in Syria, both against the Kurds, but especially in favor of the militias who oppose the Syrian dictator. In any case it is an extension of the Syrian conflict from inside Turkish borders, because the relationship with the war that is being fought in Syria appears obvious. Moreover, Turkey has taken an increasingly active role in the conflict, both supporting the moderate Sunni militias fighting against Assad, both against the Kurds, taking advantage of the general chaos to weaken its military structure; In this regard it should also report the military aviation activities in Ankara with raids in Iraq, to ​​bomb military positions in the Kurdish Iraqi Kurdistan. This activism can be read basically in two ways, the first to focus attention on the problem of internal Kurdish separatism, with the aim of diverting media attention from the difficulties of the government is related to the economic crisis, which in the following policy protests arising from a decline in civil rights in the country; the second, however, is the geopolitical order, to gain more influence on Syria and the Middle East area. Erdogan's action overturned the relationship with the Kurds, removing the possibility of a reconciliation that seemed now at hand to make the enemy to be fought at all costs, a strategy that is not served to contain the electoral exploits of the Kurdish party, voted also by many Turks, against the illiberal policies of Erdogan. Queso election result has, in fact, worsened the attitude of Erdogan who identified the Kurds as a main target to hit in order to maintain his political power, even against internal opposition is not expressed by the Kurdish movement. But this attitude has a cost, that perhaps the answer of the Kurds could not have not been calculated properly by the Government of Turkey does not arrive and the terrorist actions are the only viable means for groped to reduce the pressure on the Syrian Kurdish fighters. This scenario proves that the dreaded enlargement of the Syrian conflict is occurring with new methods compared to the problems that concern the comparison between Assad and the opposition or between the forces opposed to the Caliphate and the Islamic state. Turkey has elevated the confrontation with the Kurds exporting it outside its borders and taking action on the territories of other states, helping to increase the sense of confusion in the general economy of the conflict, but now, as a result, is to suffer acts terrorist that must be placed outside of the dialectic between the turkish government and the Kurds of Turkey, that is, outside of an inner speech, to be included in an international dimension, which is configured as an act of real war by of a foreign power, such as the Kurds of Syria they are actually, having assumed an autonomy, which although not yet officially recognized, allowing it to pursue its own sovereignty. On the other hand the solution to the Syrian state division into three states, of which, in fact, a Kurdish, is shared by different parties, except, of course, from Ankara. What is perceived is that, even outside its borders to Turkey, treat the Kurdish question as its own peculiar problem of internal dimension, rather than placing it in due international dimension; This vision is the basis of the invasion of Syrian territory and in the territory of Iraqi actions, undertaken in a manner not usual, as they should be designed according to international law. The fact that Ankara, then, appeals to western states to support its fight against Kurdish terrorism, it means seeking international legitimacy, that is unlikely to get, at least in ways desired by Turkey. The importance of the Kurdish fighters for the US remains fundamental and Washington has different political and military debts to the Kurds, who sooner or later will have to be compensated.