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Why did the US and Israel abandon the PKK? Türkiye succeeded. Erdoğan succeeded. Where are those who threatened Erdoğan?

İbrahim Karagül
İbrahim Karagül
20:57, 21/01/2026, Wednesday • Yeni Şafak News Center
Why did the US and Israel abandon the PKK? Türkiye succeeded. Erdoğan succeeded. Where are those who threatened Erdoğan?
Why did the US and Israel abandon the PKK? Türkiye succeeded. Erdoğan succeeded. Where are those who threatened Erdoğan?

After US Ambassador Tom Barrack’s statement that “we no longer need the YPG,” followed by Trump’s remarks to the effect that “we helped them a lot, and it didn’t work,” the PKK/YPG has effectively ended—it is history.An organization that occupied Türkiye for decades, served as the vanguard of Syria’s fragmentation, acted as the armed enforcer of US and Israeli interests in the region, and became one of the main drivers of geographic instability has now passed into history.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WEAPONS AND HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THE US GAVE TO THE YPG? THE US MUST LAUNCH A CORRUPTION PROBE!

They were already finished inside Türkiye. With the “Terror-Free Türkiye” project, a new era had begun. Now, the “Terror-Free Region” project begins with the dismantling of the YPG in this manner.

In fact, within a few days, the Syrian army liberated almost every area that had been under PKK/YPG (SDF) occupation. Only two small areas remain, and the YPG will not be able to exist there either.

For years, we saw none of the thousands of truckloads of weapons, air-defense systems, or hundreds of millions of dollars in financial aid sent by the US to the organization. It has now become clear that the YPG was militarily nothing.

They could not resist anywhere. They could not hold ground. There was no real military force—just inflated rhetoric.

So where did the weapons sent by the US go? Who received the hundreds of millions of dollars?

Now, the US will likely seek answers to these questions. Perhaps one of the largest corruption scandals in history was carried out through the PKK/YPG.

An investigation may be launched, and US military and intelligence elements that operated alongside the YPG in Syria may find themselves exposed.

WHY DID THE US AND ISRAEL SELL OUT THE PKK? THEY RAISED ISRAELI FLAGS—IT DIDN’T HELP AT ALL.

There is immense disappointment within PKK circles. They trusted the US and raised the American flag. At the first opportunity, they were sold out and discarded. They trusted Israel. They marched with Israeli flags. At the first real crisis, Israel abandoned them—did nothing, or rather, could do nothing. Even in their final moments, they begged Israel for help and waited for assistance. But that help was never going to come.

From this point on, it is impossible for Israel to deploy the PKK against Iran, use it as an armed force on Türkiye’s border, or blackmail regional countries through terrorism. Israel’s power has been constrained; its maneuvering space has narrowed.

ISRAEL IS IN PANIC! THE ISRAEL–GREECE FRONT WILL ALSO COLLAPSE.

It is clear that Israel is now in panic. As all this unfolded, Israel rushed desperately to Greece, trying to reinforce that front.

But that front will also collapse, and Greece and the Greek Cypriot administration will be buried under the rubble. Once Syria’s territorial integrity is fully restored, the era of Israel’s proxy forces will be completely over.

Pay attention: together with its most important partner, the UAE, everything Israel has done in Yemen and Sudan is collapsing. Every front it has opened is being dismantled. Along with the UAE, it was trying to provoke Türkiye through the YPG—and that weapon exploded in its own hands.

Once its problems on the southern front are resolved, it will be the turn of the front it established with Greece.

Then we will see what happens to the “Islands” and who ends up paying the bill. If Trump can seize Greenland, then the doors will open for the islands—natural extensions of Anatolia, unjustly seized—to return to the homeland. Don’t be surprised. Don’t dismiss it. These things will happen.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE PKK WILL ALSO HAPPEN TO “POLITICAL TERRORISM.”

The tragic end experienced by the PKK/YPG is not an issue that concerns them alone. It marks the first steps of a geography-wide transformation. The doors to a far more comprehensive, region-shaping era have been opened. This concerns everyone who has waged proxy wars on behalf of the US and Israel.

Whether they are terrorist organizations or political parties, the same fate awaits them all. Europe and the US will not stand behind those who form a front of “political terrorism” at home. Israel will not either. The turn will come for those who strike Türkiye—the homeland—from within.

EVEN STATES ARE AT RISK. AND YOU ARE STILL TALKING ABOUT THE PKK!

The era of organizations in our geography is over. The era of destabilizing and occupying countries through proxy forces has ended. Moreover, the era of “states that organize like organizations” has also ended. They, too, will no longer have power or influence. Look at the state the UAE has fallen into. Watch what will happen to Greece.

The doors to such a world have opened that every country will either join the “New Empires” or disappear. Forget organizations—states themselves are in danger. Look at the position EU member Denmark has fallen into over Greenland.

Today, the one who says “I will take Greenland” will tomorrow threaten Denmark for opposing it. Wake up to this new world, where EU members can send at most 15 soldiers to defend Denmark. And you are still talking about the PKK and the YPG.

THIS IS THE RETURN OF A THOUSAND-YEAR POLITICAL GENETIC BACK INTO GEOGRAPHY.

Those who failed to grasp what was meant by “Türkiye will be the surprise of the 21st century” will also fail to understand the realities of this new world.

Nothing can stop Türkiye—having cast off Western tutelage—from returning to history and geography a century later. They will not see the state continuity of the Seljuks, the Ottomans, and the Republic of Türkiye, nor the power of its political genetics to shape history and geography.

We have entered an era in which those who cannot see this are being eliminated and pushed out of history. Those accustomed to geographic fragmentation will witness how geographic integration reshapes the 21st-century world.

THE TÜRKİYE AXIS AND THE SUPER BELT ARE COMING. FIFTY YEARS OF CALCULATIONS HAVE BEEN RESET.

Those who thought the “Türkiye Axis” and “Century of Türkiye” were merely slogans sold for domestic consumption made a grave mistake. In Karabakh, Libya, Syria, the Eastern Mediterranean, Central Africa, Central Asia, and the Balkans, the first steps have been taken toward a “Super Belt,” a partnership of nations, a partnership of geography.

From now on, we will witness far sharper outcomes. We will be tested with far greater challenges.

The dismantling of the PKK/YPG is proof that all calculations the US and Europe have pursued in our geography since the 1980s—since the end of the Cold War—have been reset.

This dismantling is the final nail in the coffin of projects that have devastated our region for decades. The era of fragmenting countries under the slogan of a “War on Islam” has ended.

TÜRKİYE HAS BEEN CLEANSED. SYRIA HAS BEEN CLEANSED. THE ENTIRE REGION WILL BE CLEANSED!

Everything done in Syria, Yemen, and what will be done in Sudan and Somalia will serve geographic integration.

For the PKK, ISIS, al-Shabaab, and many others, the support of those who sought to dominate geography will be cut off, and history will end for them.

After toppling the Soviets, they created these organizations and tried to position themselves at the center of the world through them. That system collapsed in Syria today.

Terror and organizations have been cleansed from Türkiye. They are being cleansed from Syria. They will be cleansed from many countries.

Because the powers that financed them no longer exist—and will not exist. Europe has major problems. The US has other priorities. Israel faces existential crises.

Now is the time to awaken to this new world, to measure the next steps carefully, and to closely follow shifts in the mathematics of global power.

THE ERA OF EMPIRES, OF “PATRON STATES,” HAS BEGUN.

The global system is over. Supranational institutions established after World War II have been exhausted. The world as we knew it has collapsed. A new one is being built. In this new world, “Patron States” will rule.

Empires will rule. Countries with imperial histories will grow. Small states will survive by sheltering under these empires. Those who fail to do so will end up on the wrong pages of history.

WHERE ARE THOSE WHO THREATENED ERDOĞAN YESTERDAY?

When Israel and the PKK were building a “Terror Corridor” on Türkiye’s southern border, we wrote that “Türkiye must intervene here, even if it means suicide.” Even those we considered close found this excessive, because at the time such a possibility seemed unrealistic.

Some even wrote in our own newspapers, “What is this—are you trying to drag us into a war with America?” They warned President Erdoğan and spread fear, saying, “Do not attempt this, Türkiye and the US will come face to face.”

WE WERE ON THE RIGHT SIDE; THEY COULD NOT READ HISTORY. TÜRKİYE WILL BE ONE OF THE EMPIRES.

Ten years later, here we are. Those who failed to read the flow of history kept spinning their wheels in the past. They looked backward—but could not even understand the past correctly.

We were the Seljuks. We were the Ottomans. We were history itself. We were the architects of geography. We stood in the right place; they insisted on being wrong. Had we yielded to those threats and fears, had we believed them, Türkiye would be fragmented today.

Türkiye will be one of the empires and power centers of the new world. The gravitational field we call the Türkiye Axis will become reality. The geography of tomorrow will be shaped around this axis.

Türkiye will lead the formation of a geographic belt with its major partners. The doors to the future for all nations will open this way.

THEY LIED FOR FIFTY YEARS. NOW THEY ARE “TRASH” TOO.

The last fifty years of Middle Eastern history and power structures are now trash. This foreign power architecture will now be localized. Everything those who acted as EU spokespeople in this country told us for fifty years was a lie. Those fifty-year constructs are now trash as well.

That Europe is now squeezed by Russia on one side and the US on the other. Not only does Europe have nothing left to say to the world, but those who paralyzed our minds on its behalf have nothing left to say to Türkiye either.

These circles had long acted as spokespeople for terrorism at home. They fought the National State, defended Western tutelage, and legitimized the PKK and terrorist organizations. Even a conservative figure who never stopped invoking the “Ottoman” name played the same role.

THE “RUTHLESS STRUGGLE” WILL CONTINUE!

Syria will become a very strong state. A wealthy state. A welfare society. It will be one of Türkiye’s best partners in these fields. And this shared umbrella will grow and expand. The Türkiye–Syria military partnership will become one of the strongest fortresses in the Mediterranean.

From now on, civil wars based on ethnic and sectarian identities must not be allowed in this geography. The “Ruthless Struggle” against those waging proxy wars must continue without interruption.

Terror, betrayal, and influence operations must be confronted head-on. Such fierce storms will blow that weak forms of struggle will amount to suicide. The central authority of the state must be greatly strengthened, and equally strong regional collective defense shields must be built.

ERDOĞAN IS A HISTORICAL PIONEER, THE ARCHITECT OF A NEW GEOGRAPHY.

Despite all Western attacks, all obstruction by certain regional states, and all internal assaults, Türkiye has succeeded. This is the greatest victory since the founding of the Republic.

And it was achieved by President Erdoğan. He is a historical pioneer. He is the only one capable of reassembling geography. And this path is being walked. He has eliminated terror, cleansed the region, and laid the foundations of a new multinational shared geography.

The European era is over. Their map tables have been overturned. Now it is our era. The era of shared geographic power has begun. A new world will be built through regional solidarity. Our history has begun again. Friend and foe alike must accept this.

And the architect of this new world is President Erdoğan. He has launched the era of ascent. History will now flow this way and be written this way.

Do not be afraid to applaud. The era of victories has begun.

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