Syrian Kurds ask for help from Assad against Turkey

In the conflict that Turkey has brought against the Syrian Kurds, through military actions and bombings conducted in foreign territory, the Syrian one, in fact, there is the news of the request for help to the Syrian dictator Assad, as head of state, by the Kurdish leaders of Syria. The obsession of the Turkish president, Erdogan, against the Kurds who are outside the borders of Turkey is due to the awareness of not being able to exercise against these parts of Kurdistan adequate control to prevent the establishment of an autonomous Kurdish entity on the borders of Ankara. Erdogan has centered his political strategy on the aversion of the Kurds, as an internal and external enemy, to mask the consequences, also economic, of his bad government and to divert the attention of the few surviving media inside the country from the dictatorial direction taken . In Ankara all Kurds who are outside the national borders are considered terrorists, especially those belonging to armed militias, who, with their commitment, contributed to the defeat of the Islamic State. The combat capacity and the good equipment of these militias are a constant source of concern for Erdogan, especially if they are close to the borders of the country and, therefore, if they can have relations with the Kurdish Combatant Party, considered the largest terrorist organization in Turkey . Since January 20, the Turkish armed forces have started an operation, outside the national borders, to fight the militias belonging to the People's Protection Unit, which seems to be an ally of the Kurdish Workers Party. The offensive was very bloody and in addition to striking members of the militia, there were numerous victims among the civilians. Turkey has come to threaten even the United States, which are present in the area in a number of about 2,000, which should cooperate with the Kurds, both in terms of anti-Islamic terrorism, and to balance the Russian presence in the Syrian country and, above all, against the government of Damascus. The Pentagon's answer was peremptory: if the American soldiers will be attacked they will answer to defend themselves. This represents yet another clash, for now at the verbal level, between Turkey and the United States, formally allies and both members of the Atlantic Alliance. However, the American presence, as an ally of Syrian Kurds, did not avert the violent Turkish counter-offensive that materialized against the Kurds with an evident disparity of forces put in place. Hence the decision of the administrators of the Syrian Kurdish region, Ankara's goal, to seek the help of Damascus, as the legitimate authority of the area violated by foreign troops. The relationship between the Syrian Kurds and Damascus has so far been fluctuating, on the one hand if they enjoyed administrative independence, first within the Syrian regime and later during the conflict, they were also gradually used as a means against the Turks and the caliphate, but they have also been the subject of procurement by government forces; their appeal, however, has a great political value because, if accepted, risks opening a conflict between Syria, then, Iran and Russia against Turkey, which will certainly be joined by the Sunni countries. The role of Washington would be all to be expected, because the Kurds are natural allies of the United States, to which the American aid has gone just in function anti Assad (beyond the strategic role played against the Islamic State). On the other hand, Turkey, despite being a member of the Atlantic Alliance with which various divergences are underway, has established a solid link with Saudi Arabia also in an anti-Iranian function and the current American administration has reassessed relations with the Saudis; the danger is that the Kurds felt they were not entirely sure of the American support and attempted the extreme solution of the request for help to Assad. If Damascus decides to implement this request, possibly also with Russian support, Syria could present an entirely new international situation, which would potentially also imply a reshuffling of alliances and diplomatic relations. The other possible scenario is that once again the Kurds and their legitimate reasons can be sacrificed in the name of higher interests until the next time.