{"id":4638,"date":"2018-12-20T23:12:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T23:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4638"},"modified":"2018-12-20T23:12:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T23:12:49","slug":"trump-abandons-syrias-kurds-will-turkey-now-crush-their-dream-of-a-sdecular-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/20\/trump-abandons-syrias-kurds-will-turkey-now-crush-their-dream-of-a-sdecular-utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"TRUMP ABANDONS SYRIA\u2019S KURDS: WILL TURKEY NOW CRUSH THEIR DREAM OF A \u201cSDECULAR UTOPIA\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/US-TROOPS-YPG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2004\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/US-TROOPS-YPG-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/US-TROOPS-YPG-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/US-TROOPS-YPG-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/US-TROOPS-YPG-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/US-TROOPS-YPG-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/US-TROOPS-YPG-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/US-TROOPS-YPG-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/04\/US-TROOPS-YPG.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Ha\u2019aretz<\/p>\n<p>By Alexander Griffing<\/p>\n<p>As the war in Syria unfolded and President Bashar Assad pulled his troops out of the Kurdish northeast to quell uprisings in the country\u2019s western population centers, Syria\u2019s Kurds \u2013 with U.S. support \u2013 took it upon themselves to defeat the Islamic State on their territory.<\/p>\n<p>As the Kurds pushed ISIS back in brutal battles in first Kobani and later Raqqa, Rojava \u2013 or \u201cThe land where the sun sets\u201d \u2013 began to take shape.<\/p>\n<p>The autonomous state was declared in 2014. While it was never officially recognized by Assad, the United Nations or NATO, it had the de facto support of the United States since its inception, as the Americans provided Kurdish fighters with air cover and weapons in their fight against ISIS. But now, with President Donald Trump ordering the full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s looming threats to attack, the days of Kurdish autonomy in Syria appear to be numbered.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/us-news\/trump-abandons-the-kurds-in-syria-will-turkey-now-crush-their-secular-utopia-1.6765593?fbclid=IwAR1h3wRgWeIsT87gz_UCPqPKs4C2A2tx0Eg4TpU5u&#8211;vDE8jkfszsqiPobY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Ha\u2019aretz By Alexander Griffing As the war in Syria unfolded and President Bashar Assad pulled his troops out of the Kurdish northeast to quell uprisings in the country\u2019s western population centers, Syria\u2019s Kurds \u2013 with U.S. support \u2013 took it upon themselves to defeat the Islamic State on their territory. As the Kurds pushed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/20\/trump-abandons-syrias-kurds-will-turkey-now-crush-their-dream-of-a-sdecular-utopia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TRUMP ABANDONS SYRIA\u2019S KURDS: WILL TURKEY NOW CRUSH THEIR DREAM OF A \u201cSDECULAR UTOPIA\u201d?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638","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=4638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4639,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions\/4639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}