In the press - Turkish Offensive in Syria: "Kurds, Lives of Erdogan Madness and Trump's Infamy"

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On the front page of the press, the launch yesterday of a new Turkish offensive in northeastern Syria, an area under Kurdish control.

Named "source of peace", this offensive is presented by Ankara as an operation aimed at fighting "against the terrorists of the Protection Units of the Kurdish people, and the Islamic State group" - an action "in the name of the fatherland", of after the newspaper Türkiye - which asks Allah to "bless" Turkish troops. "The operation" source of peace "was launched to eliminate terrorist threats in Syria," insists Daily Sabah , arguing that Turkey's offensive is "a question of national sovereignty", provoked by "the terrorist elements linked Workers' Party of Kurdistan ", accused of" targeting the security of Turkey and the region ".

The Turkish offensive, to which the American president seemed to agree, before qualifying his position. Donald Trump's procrastination and turn-arounds are saddening The New York Times , which announces that "Turkey is attacking an ally of the United States in Syria," and that after giving Turkey the "green light", the president then called his intervention a "bad idea" - an offensive that the United States will not seek to stop, however, on the grounds that the Kurds, still according to Donald Trump, did not "help them during the Second World War" or "helped" in Normandy "- an argument which implies that the Kurds are not true allies of the United States because they were not true during the Second World War, considered" surrealist "by some.

In his recent statements to justify his desire to withdraw US troops from Syria, and open the way for a Turkish incursion, the US president also explained that Turks and Kurds were "natural enemies", who fought "during hundreds of years ago "- remarks swept aside by Asli Aydintasbas, who considers them both" dangerous "and" reductive ". According to this Turkish contributor to the Washington Post , "millions (of her compatriots) do not see the Kurds of Syria as a threat, but as the inhabitants of a buffer zone in a chaotic region" - a minority "with whom Turkey must normalize its relations and engage in a political settlement on the Kurdish issue ": in other words, a solution diametrically opposed to the option chosen by President Recep Tayip Erdogan, accused of" sowing the seeds of hatred for generations to come. come". The Turkish intervention has nonetheless some supporters across the Atlantic, including the ultra-conservative Daily Caller site , which estimates that Donald Trump "was right to announce the withdrawal of US troops, and that he should even go further," and finally to leave the United States of a conflict in which their interest would be "extremely limited".

Donald Trump, whose cartoonists recall the inner difficulties. Threatened by a dismissal procedure of the Congress, for having asked compromising information to Ukraine on its potential rival in the presidential election of 2020, Joe Biden. Does Donald Trump seek to divert, to make forget the accusations brought against him? The American cartoonist Marlette shows Turkish soldiers in the middle of the Syrian offensive, making this comment: "If we had known that it was so easy to get the United States to abandon its allies, we would have offered compromising information on Joe Biden well earlier". A drawing found on Twitter . "Turkey attacks the Kurds: Trump apologizes, he has an impeachment - an impediment, the American term for the procedure of dismissal," quips the cartoonist Herrmann, for The Tribune of Geneva .

Abroad, the Turkish offensive as the attitude of the American president, cause a real uproar. "Towards and against all, Erdogan goes on the attack", headline L'Orient Le Jour . According to the Lebanese newspaper, "the outbreak of the offensive has been strongly condemned by several countries fearing a chaos that could pave the way for a strong comeback (of the Islamic States group) and which raises uncertainty about the fate of the jihadists captured by the Kurdish People's Protection Units ". "Turkey is targeting Kurds abandoned by Trump", criticizes the British newspaper The Independent , which reports that thousands of civilians have fled, or are still trying to flee the areas bombed by the Turkish army.

In France, Libération denounces "the dirty war of Erdogan", and the manner in which the Turkish president "played the ambiguities of Washingto" to carry out his war against the Kurds, objects of an endless betrayal ". According to Libé, "this new crisis underlines the helplessness of European countries", and "the silences of Europe and France question what was believed to be the case: the ideal of the spring of the peoples and the rights of the peoples of Europe. dispose of themselves ". Undaunted support of the Kurdish cause, Humanity enraged to see this people "delivered to the madness of Erdogan", a victim of "the infamy" of Donald Trump, whose announcement, the withdrawal of his troops "mark d ' a wilt the presidency of the world's leading power. " "The UN Security Council will meet today in an emergency. We have entered a warrior gear ": the newspaper demands" the immediate cessation of the Turkish offensive ".

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