Several TV channels, including CNN and a Kurdish channel, have broadcast images of many dozens of Turkish carts on their way to the caliphate. Formally such "heavy" military support would be the result of extortion following the kidnapping of 49 between diplomats and employees of the consulate in Mosul in June.
Basically it seems to be yet another proof of Turkey's broad support for ISIS: after years of facilitating and foraging every anti-government rebel in Syria it would now seem to continue to "invest" in the new field champion.
The international coalition that would have begun bombing the assets of the Islamic state in Iraq is made up of the USA, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the Emirates and Jordan. Turkey stayed out of it and refused to provide its own air bases. However, the Turkish president said he was ready to send ground troops to the Syrian territories in the hands of ISIS to protect the populations who are seeking refuge in his country. A presence on the ground that would be very reminiscent of the "pax siriana" in Lebanon in the XNUMXs ...
Turkey aside, in practice the "good guys" would therefore be those who have supported and financed the war in Syria to date. A war that from civil (in the sense of "between Syrians") soon turned into an inhuman massacre (more than 191.000 dead according to data from August) between fanatics - even part-time - and the majority of Syrians, former rebels including, that between the two evils he finally chose the minor one, Assad.
It is easy to understand today that the coalition does not intend to eliminate ISIS, but to put some order in the Syrian anti-government rebel front and protect the Iraqis from a mastiff of whom it has been lost, at least apparently, control.
Well, in all this apparent chaos, Italy has a few days ago given its support to the anti-ISIS coalition, opening the possibility to commitments that could go beyond the simple supply of weapons to the Kurds.
Never in the last few years the reality of the stage has been so different from what happens behind the scenes.
This time, perhaps in good faith, perhaps because we are forced, we could drag us beyond the legitimate and just Iraqi borders.
In that case we would seriously risk getting hurt,
Andrea Cucco
(in the upper frame of a video published by a Kurdish channel the inscription "exceptional transport" in Turkish is highlighted, under the frame of a similar video of CNN)
