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Death to Turkiye, tbh.
Whatever one thinks of this or that Kurdish party and their alignments (which vary greatly. To collapse all Kurdish parties as though they're the same as the Barzani's is both Vulgar and orientalist), Turkiye is the second largest army in NATO, it's a regular staging ground for US intervention in the middle east, and it's an ethnostate built on the ethnic cleansing of Greeks and Armenians, and the forced assimilation of Kurds.
Its a prison house of nations, and its role in Western Imperialism goes largely un recognized by Western leftists. I've even seen some western leftist ls swallow Turkish propaganda wholesale, simply because it confirms their beliefs that all Kurds are somehow US puppets, and end up inadvertently justifying the occupation of parts of Iraq and Syria, by Turkiye.
Point being, geopolitics isn't a marvel movie, and we gotta have more nuanced, informed takes. No investigation, no right to speak, and all that
Yeah if Israel didn't exist, Turkey would be taking their place in the region, no doubt. They're every bit the western outpost in the region that Israel is, only pathetically second place to the West's favourite Zionist entity, and thereby not given the uncritical support and funding for their colonial ambitions
Yup. You could see Eastern Anatolia as a settler colony, since they are trying to get rid of Armenians, Kurds and Assyrians living there
Yeah, I'm probably one of the most skeptical individual regarding Kurdistan, however Türkiye is unquestionably the instigator of the whole issue. Kurds would not be able to be used like disparate playthings of empire if Türkiye wasn't ruthlessly vile against them. Part of the reason no settlememt could made in Syria between Assad and Rojava was in my opinion because the Syrian government feared that too many concessions would lead to Türkiye directly invading the country.
I'd argue Türkiye isn't quite at the same level as the zionists, but more so because at the very least they are still an organic part of the region (even if their state is ethnosupremacist) rather than explicitly settler colonial.
The current Turkish initiative to basically recreate the influence of the ottoman empire in the modern setting is obviously a danger to every other country in the region as well. I suspect that one Israel collapses, which I think will be sometime after the resumption of the war against Iran, Türkiye and Iran's cordial relationship is going to be strained. I expect to see some synchronization of the Islamic Republic with the Safavids coming put of Türkiye as it ramps up in the coming decades.
I still hold the opinion though that outside of Türkiye, Kurdistan is not project that can succeed as an anti-imperialist entity. Also the region largely needs to reject ethnoreligious seperatism in favor of unified efforts against imperialism and towards economic development.
Agree with you except for the ethnostate claim. Türkiye has a variety of regional ethnicities united under a single national identity in a way that would make any other nation state as ethnically diverse jealous.