Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- July 28, 2015

Rebecca Collard, Time: Why Turkey Sees the Kurdish People as a Bigger Threat than ISIS

The Kurds' success against ISIS might encourage advocates of a Kurdish state across parts of Iraq, Syria and Turkey

As Kurdish forces headed to the frontlines to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) this weekend, they came under attack, not by ISIS but by Turkish fighter jets.

“They were going to Kirkuk and Sinjar to fight ISIS,” says Zagros Hiwa, a spokesman for the Kurdish PKK forces. The PKK, The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, is a Kurdish separatist group and also one of the forces fighting ISIS on the ground in Iraq and Syria. They are now also under attack by Turkey.

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- July 28, 2015

Is PKK real target of Turkish strikes? -- Metin Gurcan, Al Monitor

Turkey vs. Islamic State: What they risk as conflict escalates -- Dominique Soguel, CSM

Turkey's AKP: Sailing into uncharted waters -- Behlul Ozkan, Al Jazeera

Turkey joined the fight against Islamic State, but not for the reasons you think -- Neil Quilliam and Jonathan Friedman, Reuters

Aspiring to impunity in Lebanon -- Lina Khatib & Bassem Deaibess, Al Jazeera

Why Americans Won’t Like the New Middle East Order -- Steven Metz, WPR

After the Nuclear Deal, a Region Recalibrates -- Stratfor

What’s behind Beijing’s drive to control the South China Sea? -- Howard W French, The Guardian

Obama probably won't be invited to speak at the African Union again any time soon -- Erin Conway-Smith, Global Post

Greece's crashing economy drives the young and educated towards the exits -- Kit Gillet, CSM

Is the United States Selling Out Ukraine? -- Brian Whitmore, The Atlantic

Vladimir Putin’s most effective weapon is gas – but not the poison kind -- Josh Cohen, Reuters

Why is Russia sending bombers close to U.S. airspace? -- Laura Smith-Spark, CNN

Even the Former Director of the NSA Hates the FBI’s New Surveillance Push -- Noah Shachtman, Daily Beast

The Animal Serial Killer Who Shot Cecil The Lion -- Nina Strochlic, Daily Beast