Rebirth of England

Chapter 990 Kurds

Although there is a saying that "Husky is the dog among dogs and Turkey is the country among countries", Türkiye's "ancestors" were indeed rich.

Turkey, which was once a Turkic tribe, developed into the Ottoman Empire that spanned Europe, Asia, and Africa. It once dominated the European countries and made them tremble with fear...

It was also because the Ottoman Empire was too powerful at the time, occupying most of the Mediterranean and monopolizing trade from Europe to Asia, that it forced those European countries to open up new routes, leading to the rise of the British Empire.

It can be said that everything is rolling forward in the gears of history, and the Ottoman Empire and the Chinese Empire, the two behemoths in the east and west of Asia, were subsequently continuously hit by the emerging capitalist countries.

Compared with the Qing Dynasty, it can be said that Ottoman Turkey was once Europe's nightmare for a hundred years and was directly dismembered into nearly forty countries. Modern Turkey, which inherited its mantle, has a territory of less than one-seventh of the Ottoman Empire during its heyday.

Apart from Türkiye, which countries were dismembered from the Ottoman Empire?

The European part includes Hungary, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Romania, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Greece, Montenegro and other countries

The Asian part includes Syria, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait and other countries.

The African part includes Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and other countries.

At this point, we can understand why Turkey likes to get involved in the Middle East at every turn. After all, in their view, most of the Middle East was once the territory of their "ancestors"...

Türkiye is currently a member of NATO but not a member of the European Union.

The main reason is that Turkey and Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union can be said to be eternal enemies. In history, Turkey has been taught a lesson by the Russians many times. During the Cold War, the United States naturally would not miss the opportunity to win over Turkey, which is in a key strategic position. So Turkey accepted large amounts of aid from the West and joined NATO.

But from the 1980s to the present, for more than 30 years, Turkey has been seeking to join the EU, but has never been accepted - this is not because the EU dislikes Turkey, at least this is not the main reason, the main reason is that Turkey's arch-enemy Greece is a member of the EU, and it always votes against it to prevent Turkey from joining the EU...

There have been many wars between Greece and Turkey, and the two sides still have unresolved territorial disputes. In 1974, during the dispute with Greece over Cyprus, Turkey disguised three warships as Greek warships and prepared for a sneak attack. However, they were discovered by their own air force, and one was sunk and two were severely damaged...

As for the Kurds mentioned by Barron to Cameron, it can be said that they appear very frequently in many conflicts in the Middle East.

The Kurds themselves are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East after Arabs, Turks and Persians. Saladin, a hero in Islamic history, was a Kurd.

The Kurds were previously ruled by the Ottoman Empire. During the national independence movement after World War II, the Kurds hoped to establish their own "Kurdistan", but they were unsuccessful. As a result, their gathering areas were divided into four countries...

Then the Kurds have been seeking independence. During the Iraq War, the Kurds fought against Saddam and sought independence; during the Syrian civil war, the Kurds fought against the government forces and sought independence...

In fact, the Kurds in Türkiye are also restless, and Türkiye has never relaxed its crackdown on Kurdish independence forces.

Of course, the Kurds always receive funding from the United States to rebel when countries like Iraq and Syria are overthrown, but when their interests conflict with those of Turkey and other parties, they are betrayed without any psychological burden, which is quite miserable.

Currently, the Kurds are facing the threat of ISIS (Islamic State), an extremely dangerous terrorist extremist organization that was derived from al-Qaeda. It has not yet officially changed its name to "Islamic State", but has joined forces with the Syrian opposition armed organization "Victory Front" and occupied part of the territory in northern Iraq and Syria.

It can be said that up to now, Western countries, including the United States, are still immersed in the confrontation with Russian forces in Syria and have not realized the danger of the Islamic State.

In the future, the Kurds will not only be one of the important forces in resisting the Islamic State, but will also be able to cause certain troubles to Türkiye, so they are still worthy of their support.

Cameron wants to say that the Middle East strategy needs some coordination with the United States.

However, thinking that the England led by His Royal Highness the Duke beside him needed a certain degree of autonomy, he suppressed this idea and said:

"I will ask the intelligence department to make a feasibility report and will carefully consider this matter..."

"As for supporting the Kurds, we don't need to invest too much in the early stage. We can contact them through our network in Iraq and provide them with some guns and ammunition in advance. I believe this is what they expect."

Although the British army has almost completely withdrawn from Iraq, their intelligence agencies still have a certain network of relationships in Iraq, and the remaining forces of the Protector Military Services Company in Iraq can also provide channels for these support materials for the Kurds.

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These guns and ammunition can also be transported directly from Kolo to Iraq through the Protector Military Services Company and handed over to the Kurds.

"In addition, we can also provide training for some Kurds through our bases in Iraq and Kolo, especially the use of some small drones, which are still very useful in their small-scale infiltration battles."

Even if it is not a professional reconnaissance drone like the "Jungle Wolf" with a wider reconnaissance range and longer hovering time, the use of the "Hummingbird" series of small drones produced by Aerospace Precision can play a huge role in the conflict between local armed organizations in a region of the Middle East.

These drone tactics are specifically researched and applied by the Protector Military Services Company at the Munger Base. It can be said that they are already at an early stage in drone warfare.

In a few years, it will no longer be a strange thing for these terrorist organizations and anti-government forces in the Middle East to use drones to participate in combat.