Aliza Marcus

@AlizaMarcus

Turkey/Kurd expert. Following Middle East broadly/Kurdistan in detail. Author of Blood & Belief (Turkcesi Kan ve Inanc, Iletisim Yayinevi). RT not endorsement.

Washington. DC
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Joined June 2011
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    30 Oct 2016

    Biz onu kaybettik.....

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  2. 8 hours ago

    but what's also interesting is why, until now, the KDP hasn't openly blamed the PKK and why Turkey is uncharacteristically quiet about this. For all the clashes, it seems no one wants to upset the uneasy status quo.

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  3. 8 hours ago

    so to me the attack shows the PKK is much better organized throughout Kurdistan and that it's level of intelligence gathering is more sophisticated. That the PKK now claims it was just some guys who did it shows the group doesn't want to openly clash with KDP on this...

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  4. 8 hours ago

    was not run by the PKK. I initially was skeptical that it was the PKK precisely because I didn't think the PKK could operate with such freedom in Erbil & didn't think it would risk an outright clash with the KDP by taking such action...

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  5. 8 hours ago

    it's hard to believe that such a professionally organized attack (even if B. Erdal claims it was actually quite amatuer!) that targets a high level Turkish official, in the center of a city where the Barzanis have serious (altho clearly not as tight as I thought) intelligence...

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  6. 8 hours ago

    such as TAK, or unaffiliated sympathizers, as is being claimed in this case. But really...the PKK never has and never will tolerate split offs that are active, and while there's no question that sympathizers sometimes do things on their own, without explicit instructions...

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  7. 8 hours ago

    The PKK always has a neat answer for attacks it doesn't want to claim for various reasons -- for example, attacks in which civilians are killed or those that are potential PR disasters for other reasons; in these cases, PKK blames either alleged split off groups...

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  8. 8 hours ago

    So let's say it, if there's one person Turkey doesn't want to see on PKK TV it's Bahoz Erdal, whose death has been announced by Turkey many times. And here he is, discussing the assassination in Erbil last week of a Turkish diplomat (alleged MIT agent)

    Bahoz Erdal, in an interview w/ Sterk TV, salutes the perpetrators of attack on Turkish diplomat in Erbil. Erdal claims that he was a member of MIT. - Denied PKK’s involvement.…
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  9. 8 hours ago

    too kind!

    Waiting for to weigh in on what this all means. She wrote the most comprehensive book ever on the PKK “Blood and Belief” Unrivalled thus far
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  10. 9 hours ago

    More Kurdish mayors, local politicians arrested in Turkey. Not alot of change there.

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  11. 10 hours ago

    interesting. these arrests are rarely publicized. PKK arrests several of their own members over alleged espionage

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  12. 11 hours ago

    It’s a great deal — so great that it sounds like what Iraqi Kurds got in the 1990s, and we all know what that led to. Legitimization of Kurdish control

    A 4 kilometer "Safe Zone," not including the major cities, with local security councils in the border areas comprised of locals, and air and ISR under US-led Coalition control and NO Turkish military forces on the ground in N/E seems fair to the . H/T …
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  13. 12 hours ago

    Any attacks being reported in Turkish media these days? (Clearly not with these numbers, but PKK attacks as such)

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  14. Retweeted
    Jul 23

    Pretty sure genoicde doesn’t mean “winning” a war.

    Trump today on Afghanistan: “I could win that war in a week. I don’t want to kill 10 million people.... Afghanistan could be wiped off the face of the earth. I don’t want to go that route...I have a plan that could win that war in a very short period of time.” (Per pool@report)
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  15. Jul 23

    Maybe if we’re talking about a restaurant...

    Is it possible for there to be a presence in N/E in a manner that would: (1)Protect the from attacks; (2)Prevent from imposing its will on the people of Rojava; (3)Avoid ethnic cleansing of like in ; and (4)Deter the reemergence of ?
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  16. Retweeted
    Jul 23

    patrols are now in the city of on the Syrian-Turkish border after threatened to attack the areas east of the Euphrates

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  17. Jul 23

    Once again — seems everyone’s in agreement about a ‘buffer zone’ except they haven’t agreed where it will be, what forces will be there, how big it will be and what really it means. In other words, no agreement

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    Jul 22

    Türk devleti Rojavanın Serekaniye kenti sınırına havan atışı yapıyor. Öte yandan Serekaniye’den Ceylanpınar’a roket atan bir kişi güvenlik güçleri tarafından yakalandı.

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  19. Retweeted
    Jul 22

    Reported explosion in Ceylanpinar (across Syrian-Turkish border from Serekaniye) was a mine explosion and not linked to any YPG/SDF activity. No Turkish attack yet on Serekaniye per sources on the ground, in contrary to some reports.

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  20. Jul 22

    Supposadly PKK has ‘important’ documents related to the Turkish diplomat (possibly an intelligence agent undercover) murdered in Erbil & may make a public statement soon

    Kaynaklar HPG’nin elinde Hewlerde vurulan konsolosluk üyesi olduğu belirtilen MİT elemanına ilişkin önemli bilgi ve belgeler olduğunu belirtiyor. Yakında bu konuda bir açıklama yapılarak kamuoyunu…
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    Jul 22

    Top US commander visits SDF leadership in Syria amid Turkish threats

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