{"id":3048,"date":"2018-02-13T00:27:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T00:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2018-02-13T00:27:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T00:27:59","slug":"friend-or-foe-assad-quietly-aids-syrian-kurds-against-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/13\/friend-or-foe-assad-quietly-aids-syrian-kurds-against-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"FRIEND OR FOE? ASSAD QUIETLY AIDS SYRIAN KURDS AGAINST TURKEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/03\/Azaz_Syria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-782\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/03\/Azaz_Syria-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/03\/Azaz_Syria-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/03\/Azaz_Syria-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/03\/Azaz_Syria-560x371.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/03\/Azaz_Syria-260x172.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/03\/Azaz_Syria-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Reuters<\/p>\n<p>By Laila Bassam and Tom Perry<\/p>\n<p>Syria\u2019s U.S.-backed Kurds are getting indirect help from an unlikely source in their war against Turkey in the northwestern region of Afrin: President Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-government forces and Kurdish-led forces have fought each other elsewhere in Syria and Damascus opposes the Kurds\u2019 demands for autonomy. But in Afrin they have a common enemy and a mutual interest in blocking Turkish advances.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey, which regards the Kurdish YPG militia in Afrin as a threat on its southern border, launched an assault on the region last month. Seeking to shield Afrin, the Kurds asked Damascus to send forces into action to defend the border.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-mideast-crisis-syria-turkey-kurds\/friend-or-foe-assad-quietly-aids-syrian-kurds-against-turkey-idUSKBN1FV078?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&amp;utm_content=5a7ff22804d3011f2e3a6fa2&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Reuters By Laila Bassam and Tom Perry Syria\u2019s U.S.-backed Kurds are getting indirect help from an unlikely source in their war against Turkey in the northwestern region of Afrin: President Bashar al-Assad. Pro-government forces and Kurdish-led forces have fought each other elsewhere in Syria and Damascus opposes the Kurds\u2019 demands for autonomy. But in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/13\/friend-or-foe-assad-quietly-aids-syrian-kurds-against-turkey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FRIEND OR FOE? ASSAD QUIETLY AIDS SYRIAN KURDS AGAINST TURKEY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[15,90],"class_list":["post-3048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-syria","tag-turkey","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3049,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions\/3049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}