Canadian foreign policy must address tug of war between Turkey and Syrian Kurds
Canadian policy-makers have to ask themselves whether or not they can get away with supporting a minoritarian separatist movement to defeat terrorists overseas—and whether they can stomach standing by a supposed NATO ally who enabled the rise of ISIS.
Most of the Middle East’s troubles go back to the dismemberment of the Turkish Ottoman Empire after the First World War. We can see all the grim consequences of the violent collapse of Turkish colonialism in the struggle now being played out between Turkey, ISIS, and the Kurds.
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