.............Turkish security forces have rounded up 900 suspected members of Islamic State, Kurdish militant sympathizers and leftist militants in recent days, the government official said. Local media reports said the vast majority were Kurdish and leftists, rather than members of Islamic State.
According to several news reports the U.S. and Turkey have agreed to do something in north Syria. But there seems to be no agreement on anything else. There is disunity about the aim of something as well as on the target of any something operation. The means of achieving something are in dispute. Even the geographic space in which something is supposed to happen is undefined. The only agreed upon issue besides doing something is to throw the Kurds, the most successful force against the Islamic State so far, under the bus.
Last weeks suicide attack on a meeting of young, mostly Kurdish socialists attributed to the Islamic State was probably a false flag operation initiated by Erdogan's secret service. I discussed the possibility of such an attack a month ago: The Turkish Military Rejects Erdogan's War Plans - "False Flag" Needed?. The attack on the Kurds was then used to justify an operation against the Islamic State. But that operation is only pretended. That Erdogan's claim of attacking the Islamic State is only theater and that his real aim is a war on the Kurds who fight the Islamic State can be seen best in these tweets:
Türkischer Präsident wirft Kurden vor, »Einheit« des Landes zu gefährden, und erklärt Friedensprozess für beendet. NATO bekundet »starke Solidarität« mit Ankara
http://www.jungewelt.de/index.php
Ankara: PKK must disarm for peace process
..........According to Turkeys deputy prime minister, Bulent Arinc, 1,300 people have been rounded up so far in a major police crackdown on extremist groups, including 847 PKK suspects and 137 ISIS suspects.
The Turkish states new concept of war, which became official after the bombing of Kurdish mountains and Erdoğans declaration that they ended the process of resolution, has and will continue to have implications for the relations between Kurds.
USA betrays YPG by supporting Turkish safe zone plan
The USA has betrayed the YPG by ensuring Turkey that YPG fighters will not move in to areas along the Turkish border cleared of ISIS. Accordingly, they most likely intend to install Islamo-fascist Arabist anti-Kurd scum there, condemning the Kurdish enclave of Afrin to continued blockade, and most likely leading to future attacks on the Kurds in that area by so-called "moderate rebels". Hopefully the Islamist terrorists will not attack their ISIS butt-buddies leaving the territory for the kurds to capture. Talking about human rights and then backing a plan to enforce the joint Turkish-rebel siege of Afrin is pure hypocrisy. America should be ashamed at this blatant betrayal of their closest and most effective ally on the ground in Syria. Luckily though this dastardly, treacherous plan is flawed for a couple reasons. 1) Rebels will not engage in a major offensive against ISIS and the area cannot be cleared by warplanes alone 2) they may try and say they will train rebels for the offensive but the whole train and equip program has only cleared 60 fighters almost all of whom are now dead or imprisoned by Nusra. Even though the plan is unrealistic it shows American treachery and their complicity with the Kurd-hating Turkish regime.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=37c_1438662265
Academics call for consolidated cease fire
A group of academics from various universities across Turkey have joined calls for consolidated cease fire and demanded the end of the isolation imposed on the Kurdish Peoples leader Abdullah Öcalan.
Turkish Kurd leader urges world to denounce 'unjust war'
Turkey's Kurdish political leader Selahattin Demirtas on Thursday urged the world to denounce Ankara's new "unjust war" on rebel Kurds and asked the EU to push clearly for a truce.
Bundeswehr bildet im Irak ezidisches Peschmerga-Bataillon aus
Die Bombardements des türkischen Militärs auf Stellungen der PKK im Nordirak und im Südosten der Türkei beherrschten vor kurzem die Berichterstattung. Immer deutlicher kam zutage, dass Staatspräsident Erdogan und die AKP nicht dem IS den Kampf angesagt haben, sondern der PKK und der linken türkisch-kurdischen Oppositionsbewegung - mit der Unterstützung der NATO und der Bundesrepublik. Ungeachtet dieser brisanten Situation gehen die Angriffe des IS auf Shengal weiter.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/45/45637/1.html
The true face of the Turkish state
Video has emerged of the torture perpetrated by special operation police teams against dozens of people taken into custody in a construction site in Yüksekova district of Hakkari on August 5.
How did Turkey hand over six injured YPG fighters to Al Nusra?
It has been revealed how Turkey handed over six injured YPG fighters treated there to the jihadist Jabhat Al-Nusra gangs.
In the previous days, YPG fighters Ahmed Şêrko, Omer Qadir, Rêber Seyho, Ehmed Helûm, Cemal Ehmed and Beşîr Mihemed were taken into custody following a raid in a guest house in Turkish capital Ankara.
The six YPG fighters who were detained yet before the completion of their treatment were taken to the Foreigners' Department of Police to be deported.
The six wounded combatants were, however, deported not through the YPG/YPJ-held Mürşitpınar border gate leading to Kobanê, but through the Al-Nusra-held Cilvegözü (Bab El Hewa) border gate in Reyhanlı district of Hatay.
Thus, the Turkish state handed over six YPG fighters, who had been wounded defending their homeland against jihadist gangs, to the Jabhat Al-Nusra, another organization of fascist jihadists in the Syrian territory.
The first step of the occupation plan: Turkey enters Syria
As parts of its plans for the occupation of Syria, the Turkish state has entered Syria from the Bab Al-Selamê border gate in Azaz city.
According to a report by Hawar News Agency (ANHA), occupying forces organized by MİT (Turkish intelligence service) and affiliated to the Turkish state have entered the Azaz city today afternoon.
Sources reported that the armed forces organized under the names of Sultan Murat Brigade and Fatih Sultan Mehmet Brigade are heading towards the villages of Kefferan and Delhan in buses covered with Turkish flags and banners of both brigades, and in vehicles armed with heavy weapons.
On the other hand, sources also said another occupying force called Fatih Sultan Mehmet has left İdlib for Azaz city in buses and vehicles armed with heavy weapons.
Kobanê Minister urges an explanation from Turkey on six YPG fighters
Kobanê Foreign Affairs Minister İbrahim Kurdo said they expected an explanation from Turkish authorities about the claims that six YPG fighters in Turkey have been handed over to Al-Nusra.
Erdogan ,fighters will persist until "not one single terrorist remains"
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed that Turkey would press on with a military offensive against fighters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) "until not one terrorist remains".