today.as they re spread across four countries. southeastern turkey, northeastern syria, northern iraq and northwestern iran. kurds make up 7 to 10 pes% of syria s population. 20% of turkey s and 15 to 20% of f iraq s population. the relationship between the syrian government and the country s kurdish population has as we ve been describing, been fraught before the civil war, many syrian kurds were denied citizenship but after the fighting began in 2011, they never sided with the rebels against the government and at time, they ve been willing to work with thevend government. kurdish fighters, the ypg, became a strong force because they filled the void left when government authority collapsed this large parts of syria. after isis took control of much of northern and eastern syria, the ypg joined with several local arab militias to form the
the kurds because they ve been responsible for bombings in l ankara and istanbul so for them, they re terrorists. we don t know if this will be a full scale invasion, but syria s ku kurds will fight but will be no match for turkey. turkey has air power tanks, all the weapons of a nato country of 80 million people. so these are mortal enemies and this willil be a blood bath. once the fighting start, i think the kurds will try to seek an agreement with president assad. that will link them up with iran and russia so president trump will have pushedru away his forr allies, the kurds, into the arms of his enemies and most importantly, it s very likely to lead to a resurgence of isis. it s the curds guarding around 10,000 isis prisoners. they re not going to do that muchno longer if they re being
the economy of a nato ally, turkey, with 80 million citizens, if anything is going to drive the turks towards russia and remember they ve got a defense deal for equipment with russia into theem arms of iran these kinds of actions are likely to do this. the president may feel that for america s economy, the taxpayers, it s a good thing to bring the boys home and get t o of a place that s 7,000 miles from washington. but as brett and others have said, you know, you may take that narrow economic view now, but you may pay for it in the years and decades to come. thanks very much. bill in london. we ll take a closer look at syria s kurds, who say they could face harm as a result ofk the president s decision. according to the kurdish project, there are 30 million kurds living in the middle east
the forces have been there since 2014. u.s. forces. and as you had noted in your background, the partnership with the kurds was instrumental in the success in defeat iing isis. but everybody has their interests. so the united states was there and remain ed there i hope continues to remain there, because of efforts for reconstruction and development to allow ref yes to return to the area. solving a global migration problem obviously. t for counterterrorism issues and also to counter iranian influence and it s a big deal because you re talking about a countryng surrounded by u.s. partners andy allies. namely iraq, jordan and israel most orimportantly. if you leave, if you leave, the u.s. has already started to take ata backseat in the syria issue and in promoting peace there. in we re going to leave this vacuum for more sectarian conflict. more arinstability, for a breedg ground for terrorism.
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