Dana Nawzar

Kurds in the Sykes-Picot, facing genocide and other crimes, have had to seek help from outside. And they deserve protection like Bosnians, as a group of people in danger. The only thing ‘I fight for you. I am your ally’ people do is hurting the real humanitarian cause.

One might say ‘Turkey is a NATO ally and YPG has ties with PKK. That is why US cannot take sides’ Well. Iraqi Kurds were literally fighting Qassim Soleimani in Kirkuk and US abandoned them. Alliance myth only exists in DC (not)think-tanks and Kurdish daydreaming.

One of the most disingenuous takes is ‘US betrayed Kurds. Allies won’t trust US anymore’ US has never seen Kurds as an ally. A mercenary, a temporary partner on ground, an expendable friend? Yes. An ally? Never. Israel for example is an ally & Netanyahu isnt shitting himself.

YPG says ‘We are fighting Erdogan and Islamist terrorists who want to bring back ISIS terrorists’ Erdogan says ‘YPG is PKK and they are terrorists’ Assad destroyed entire cities ‘fighting terrorists’ Iran, Russia, IS and Israel bomb Syria to kill ‘terrorists’ Go figure.

Erdogan who ran an election campaign denouncing the mass murderer Assad few years ago, just called on ‘Syrian regime’ to play their part in fighting ‘terrorists’.

Erdogan: Assad but not YPG YPG: Assad but not Erdogan US: Assad but not ISIS Israel: Assad but not Iranian militias Arab League: Assad but not Turkey or MB Russia, Iran & militias: Assad only Assad, the most evil man alive, is now everyone’s the lesser of two evils! Sad.

I went to a ‘Deobandi mosque’ 4 Friday prayer. The imam, talking about arrogance, quoted Bayazidi Bastami. There were all colours & ethnicities in the congregation You know it is about the system not the people when the same people who can live togeher in London fight back home.

These phrases didn’t exist before 1900! There used to be a time when a Turk had more friends than just a Turk. And Kurds had more friends than mountains. Unless we go back to the pre-1900 spirit with a 2019 model, suffering will be our bed and bread.

In the Sykes-Picot order, there are no powerful nations in Middle Eat. There is weak and the weaker. Nations united on common values in a democratic union wouldn’t have had to live by re hormonal changes and mood swings of a lunatic man in DC.

Turkey when Trump concedes: Look how powerful we have become on global stage Turkey when Trump goes crazy: A Turk has no friend but a Turk Kurds when Trump is friendly: Independent state is close Kurds when Trump goes crazy: We have no friends but mountains

Somewhere in his ‘mind’ Trump is thinking ‘The dead are all Moslems after all’ and I am surprised he hasn’t tweeted it yet.https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1185005276421902342 …

Yesterday I shared a hostel room with an Orthodox Christian from Africa. After I prayed morning prayer, he also started praying, standing and raising hands almost the way I did. He read Bible standing while I read Quran sitting. And I know, God heard, watched & loved both of us.

What we need is a collective realization that the Sykes-Picot order are not serving anyone. Kurds are the greatest losers of this order but they aren’t the only one. And only God knows what will be the next tragedy: another Syria in Turkey? Another Halabja in Iran?

Many do not understand the tectonic change the peace process between Turkey and PKK would have produced had it succeeded. Today, the region is back to square one. Everyone is a loser is except Sykes-Picot borders, its nationalist worshippers and dictators.

Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of PKK, has one of the most progressive visions for Middle East. It is almost the leftist version of the vision Erdogan once held: Greater Middle East united through a democratic confederation between nations.

Any average Kurd and Turk is a thousand times more decent than this Trump thing. Just a little over a century ago, Mazlum Kobani and Erdogan would be friends drinking tea somewhere in Istanbul. These wars are not endless. They had a beginning and need to end.

Regardless of how messed up things have become just in one week, remember: - This is a war to protect Sykes-Picot borders and demographic change - The only real winners are Assad and Kemalism - This war has nothing to do with Islam - Kurds, Turks and Arabs need new leaderships.