[lbo-talk] The ideological struggle underlying aid to Kobani

[Marv Gandall]

Ideological differences are the foremost reason why Turkey, Barzani’s Kurdish Regional Government, and the US favour the dispatch of “vetted” Iraqi Kurdish and Free Syrian Army forces to relieve the siege of Kobani, rather than simply opening the border to allow neighbouring PKK fighters from the Kurdish region in Turkey to reinforce their leftist compatriots on the Syrian side.  

"According to the prevailing narrative, the Kurdish desire for ethnic and cultural self-determination has been reawakened by events in Syria. But this is oversimplification. The escalating conflict has more to do with political ideology – a radical socialism at odds with Turkey’s burgeoning capitalist project and the Islamist-rooted government leading it.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/turkeys-real-kurdish-problem/article21199739/