Chapter 603 603 Earthen Depository Dispute

After the outbreak of the Kurdish war, the two sides fought fiercely in the Kurdish areas of Syria. The Syrian government forces can still have an advantage against the local Kurdish forces, but when the regular units of the Kurdistan People's Protection Forces enter the war zone, the Syrian government forces will have a hard time gaining an advantage.

Syria has a bad relationship with the United States, so the Soviet Union was the main source of its weapons, and the current Syrian army is mainly equipped with Soviet-made weapons. Although Kurdistan has not been autonomous, it has not been 10 years since it achieved autonomy, but it has also obtained a lot of weapons and equipment from the United States, including advanced weapons such as M1A1 main battle tanks, F-16 fighters, and Apache helicopter gunships.

When the Kurdish People's Protection Forces engage the Syrian government forces, the Syrian army often does not have to resist for long. The morale of the Kurdish People's Protection Forces is high, and they are fighting a nation-building war to protect their own people. The Americans helped the Kurds train an army with good combat effectiveness, and Barzani also secretly sent a group of middle- and lower-ranking officers to be trained by Chinese in the southern special region, and even Qi Yiming even got a lot of Kurdish Red Police fighters to join the People's Defence Forces -- these factors make the Kurdish People's Defence Army, although young, but with very considerable combat effectiveness in the Middle East.

Especially in the use of armored forces, the Kurdish People's Protection Forces are superior to the Syrian army. The Kuk army mainly uses M1A1 main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles to advance in coordination, and its penetration is particularly strong, often able to penetrate the entire front of the Syrian army, and then divide and encircle the Syrian army, breaking through one by one. In fact, the best tactics of this armored force are played by the Chinese, and on the Russian battlefield, the Chinese armored troops are thousands of miles long, constantly piercing and raiding, and their success has fascinated the entire world military community. And the status of the Chinese Army also began in that war, and it is generally considered to be the strongest in the world.

Barzani sent Kurdish middle- and lower-ranking officers to study with the Chinese, although they could not say that they could learn everything, but they also benefited a lot, while the Syrian side was much worse in this field, and at first glance they were extremely uncomfortable with such a fast-paced style of play against the Kurdish army, and they lost one after another.

After only four days of fighting, the Kurdistan People's Protection Forces (KPG) had largely cleared the Syrian Kurdistan region. And Barzani can't wait to announce that the Kurdish areas in Syria are also a sacred and inseparable part of the Kurdistan Republic.

After Qi Yiming heard the news, he still felt that Barzani was really a little hasty. After he announced the occupation of the Kurdish region of Syria, he will inevitably arouse the alarm of Iran and Turkey, and even if Iran and Turkey can put aside their old suspicions, they may work together to suppress Barzani's Kurdistan, which may really cause a chaotic war in the Middle East.

However, Qi Yiming doesn't mind the Middle East fighting hotly, after all, he has no special expectations for Kurdistan, their main role has been completed, that is, to help China involve the energy of the United States, as for whether Kurdistan can really be established in the end, Qi Yiming does not particularly care.

If Turkey and Iran are really involved in a conflict with the Kurds, China will certainly not support either side on the surface, but will remain neutral and then mediate in a pretense of mediation. China, as Iran's main arms supplier, will inevitably stop supplying weapons to Iran on the grounds that Iran is at war. However, Qi Yiming can use the Ukrainian line to provide weapons to Kurdistan and Iran at the same time, so that they can fight more fiercely.

At this time, the United States demanded a ceasefire between Kurdistan and Syria, and Barzani already occupied the Syrian Kurdistan region, so there was no objection to the ceasefire, but the Kurdish People's Protection Army was more on the border of the Syrian Kurdish region, and seemed to prevent any Syrians from entering.

At this time, another incident occurred, because of the military defeat of the Syrian army, the Syrian President of Syria old Assad became more ill and was seriously ill and hospitalized, and Bashar, who led the army on the front line, had to return from the front line to sit in Damascus, which also made the Syrian army's originally planned counteroffensive unable to be carried out, and finally could only form a confrontation with the Kurdish army on the border in the Kurdish region.

The Kurdish army's remarkable victory in Syria has also boosted the confidence of Barzani and all Kurds, and at the same time made many Kurds who once lived in discrimination and oppression see the light of standing up, especially the Kurds in Turkey, who make up the majority of the Kurdish population, have shown extreme excitement, and recently even some Turkish Kurds have held marches and rallies to celebrate the establishment of Kurdistan, but they have been expelled and suppressed by the Turkish government.

Turkey has always suppressed the Kurds, who make up 15% of the total population in its territory, and has even banned the Kurds from using the Kurdish language in public, and pursued a policy of Turkization of the Kurds, hoping to assimilate the Turkish Kurds.

Although the Iraqi Kurds and the Turkish Kurds have had many differences over history, such as their writing is written in different alphabets, they are still the same people who break bones and connect tendons. At this time, the establishment of Barzani's Kurdistan inspired many Kurds who were dissatisfied with the status quo, especially the Turkish Workers' Party, which had always insisted on armed struggle against the Turkish government, and believed that this was a good time to resist Turkey, gain independence, and establish a unified Kurdistan.

On the third day of the temporary ceasefire in the Kurdistan war, the PKK forces launched an attack on government forces and some government institutions in Kurdistan in Turkey.

Workers' Party leader Öcalan, who hurried back to Turkey, declared: "The Kurdish independence movement, which has been developing for decades, is finally reaching its climax, and a new era of independence, freedom and democracy that countless Kurdish people with lofty ideals have hoped for is coming." We in the PKK already have the support of our compatriots in Iraq, and now is the time to liberate the 15 million people who are still forced to call themselves Turks! ”

In fact, Ocalan and the PKK did not reach any cooperation agreement with Barzani and the PKK, and although Barzani tried to contact the PKK, the two sides did not reach an agreement because of estrangement and leadership issues.

However, seeing that the dream of greater Kurdistan could not be realized without the support of the Iraqi Kurds, Öcalan rushed from Turkey to Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan, to meet with Kurdistan President Barzani.

After a six-hour closed-door meeting between Öcalan and Barzani, Öcalan abruptly announced that the PKK had joined the Kurdistan regime, and that the PKK had recognized the authority of the current KDP leadership in Kurdistan. In turn, the PKK has also received support from Barzani, who has agreed to conduct widespread elections in the Kurdish region of Turkey in the future, with popular elections to decide whether the PKK or the PKK will dominate the local government.

After the news came out, it caused strong dissatisfaction with the Turkish government, and at the same time mobilized a larger number of people to go to the Kurdish region of Turkey, the existence of Kurdistan is a troublemaker, Turkish Prime Minister Ejevit said strongly: "The separation of Kurdistan from Iraq is unpopular, and it is also a major challenge to the existing political landscape of the Middle East region, and it is the bane of undermining peace and stability." The Turkish government warns the so-called Kurdistan rebel regime not to support the separatist and terrorist forces in Turkey and intends to divide the sacred territory of Turkey, otherwise the Turkish fighters will bring the flames of war to Erbil, to Kirkuk, to protect their homeland from violation! ”

Hearing that Kurdistan actually started to fight Turkey again after fighting Syria, the United States jumped even more anxiously. The U.S. envoy rebuked Barzani and demanded that he sever ties with the PKK, or the U.S. would reconsider whether to recognize Kurdistan's legitimacy.

However, Barzani did not take the words of the Americans to heart, the main opponents of the Americans are the Chinese, they are guarding against each other on a global scale, and the little US forces are stretched thin even to prevent the Chinese, let alone transfer them to deal with the Kurds. Not to mention, Barzani realistically believes that the Americans will not recognize Kurdistan's legitimacy anytime soon. So if this is the case, then it is obviously useless to threaten Kurdistan with this condition.

At the same time, the PKK, supported by weapons and other supplies from Kurdistan, has grown in strength, frequently attacking Turkish government forces in the Kurdish region, while some remote towns in the mountains have fallen, causing pressure on Turkish government forces to skyrocket.

Turkish Prime Minister Ezevit was so angry that he ordered his country's warplanes to bomb several PKK strongholds on the Turkish-Kurdish border, and at the same time crossed the border to strike at two Kurdistan military targets, causing more than 10 casualties among the Kurdistan army. After being attacked, the Kuk army did not show weakness, and immediately dragged out its own rocket artillery unit and entered the territory of Turkey to strike a Turkish military camp, which also caused dozens of casualties.

Because the Tuku border was mountainous and it was difficult for large-scale troops to carry out operations, the Kuku army and the Turkish army began to fight anxiously in the Tuku border area, and the Kuk Labor Party forces took this opportunity to constantly launch attacks in the rear of the Turkish army, making the Turkish army exhausted.

However, Barzani is also very smart, knowing that although the Kurdish army has the advantage at the moment, the Kurdish army does not have the ability to enter the territory of Turkey and occupy the vast Kurdish region. So it's basically to occupy some towns on the Tuku border and play a tug-of-war with Turkey.