The Times | Octobre11 2019 | Richard Spencer Middle East Correspondent

In an outburst unusual even by his own standards, President Trump gave one reason why he could not regard the Kurds as long-term partners: their failure to help the US and its allies in the Normandy landings.

whitehouse.gov | October 6, 2019

Al-monitor.com - Cengiz Candar

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took the rostrum at the United Nations General Assembly and delivered a colorful address full of theatrics and accompanied with maps. In his speech, he contested the legitimacy of Israel’s frontiers and also disclosed Turkey’s project to create a safe zone in northeastern Syria that would seemingly resolve, in a radical way, the problem of Syrian refugees.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is preparing to send about 150 troops to northeastern Syria to conduct ground patrols with Turkish forces, reversing at least temporarily a withdrawal from Syria that President Trump ordered last December.

The New York Times International EditionBY CARLOTTA GALL

Turkey resettling Syrians to ‘safe zone’ in area held by U.S. and Kurdish forces

foreignpolicy.com | Henri J. Barkey | September 3, 2019

In the increasingly close relationship between the Russian and Turkish presidents, there’s one clear alpha.

Amec.org.za

When Donald Trump was elected the forty-fifth president of the USA in November 2016, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was among the first world leaders to congratulate him. His congratulatory phone call echoed Erdogan’s ambition to strengthen US-Turkish relations, which had gone cold over the US Syria policy under Barack Obama.

Washingtonpost.com | By Ahmet Turk *

I was first elected as mayor in Mardin in 2014. Yet just two years into my five-year term, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cracked down on Kurdish politics and civil society, removing nearly 100 HDP mayors from our posts and replacing them with state appointees.

Al-monitor.com | Amberin Zaman

Protests over the dismissal of three Kurdish mayors from key cities in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast region continued for a third day amid shocking displays of police brutality against civilians.

Reuters | By Umit Ozdal

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey on Monday replaced Kurdish mayors with state officials in three cities and detained more than 400 people for suspected militant links, the Interior Ministry said, a move likely to fuel tensions in the mainly Kurdish southeast.