Voice of America news outlet quoted one US-based analyst this week as saying: "It's a complete wreck. There are literally US-backed groups fighting other US-backed groups right now. Specifically, the US-backed opposition in northern Aleppo is fighting the US-backed YPG. I have never seen a situation where one CIA-backed group is fighting another with this kind of intensity."
The Turkish government has become almost apoplectic over Washington's support for the Kurdish militants in Syria. Erdogan this week repeated an ultimatum to US President Barack Obama "to back us, not the terrorists" -- referring to the YPG. Ankara fears that the emboldened Syrian Kurds might eventually carve out a separatist state with their PKK comrades in southeast Turkey.
Meanwhile, Ankara has come in for sharp criticism from the United Nations, Washington and Paris for its cross-border artillery fire, which, on the face of it, constitutes an act of aggression against a sovereign state. The US has even called on Ankara to cease firing. Erdogan snubbed the appeal and vowed to continue the cross-border shelling.
In this context, it would seem entirely stupid of the YPG or its Kurdish affiliates in Turkey to carry out a terror attack in the capital. The Kurds would only be squandering valuable international political support by committing such an atrocity.
However, if the terror attack can be pinned on the YPG, that would serve Erdogan very conveniently. Which raises the question: who really did pull it off? The sophisticated style, in the heart of Ankara, with precision timing strongly suggests a state military agency. In short, a false flag terror attack.
The political consequences play to Erdogan's advantage. It bolsters his claims that the Kurdish militants are "terrorists" and unworthy of Washington's support. At the same time, it allows the Turks to step up their military campaign in Syria, calling for a no-fly zone and, furthermore, to solicit the go-ahead from Obama for a ground invasion.
But we need to keep in mind the bigger picture here. Turkey wants to go into Syria not to fight terrorism, as claimed, but rather to assist their covert "brothers-in-arms" among the regime-change jihadist terror brigades. That would inevitably bring NATO member Turkey into a head-on confrontation with the Syrian army and Russia.
Does Washington really want to go there?
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