Trump's Syria Dilemma: Turkey or the Kurds?
By Amir Tibon
http://www.haaretz.com
Posted 2017-02-11 10:46 GMT
Last July, in the midst of the presidential election campaign, Donald Trump declared in an interview that he was "a big fan of the Kurds." Speaking about the fight against ISIS on the ground in Syria, Trump said he hoped there was a way to get the Kurdish forces, which have been supported by the U.S. for the last two years, to join forces with their bitter enemy, the Turkish government.
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