A Turkish soldier stands on top of an armoured personnel carrier (APC) near the Turkish-Syrian border in Sanliurfa province, Turkey, October 15, 2019. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - A Turkish border offensive against Syrian Kurdish forces will further weaken Iraq's divided Kurds next door and embolden regional rivals who have one thing in common - they want no Kurdish state.
The assault, following an American troop pullback that in effect gave Turkey a U.S. green light, alarmed inhabitants of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region. It ended Syrian Kurdish rule of "Rojava" - their name for northeastern Syria - and left Iraqi Kurdistan as the Kurds' only self-governed land.
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