The world is silent as Turkey prepares a new offensive against the Kurds – a weekly news review

Turkey has announced that they will launch a new offensive against the Kurds in Iraq and that they still plan to take control of a 30-40 km corridor in Syria, but the world says nothing. Meanwhile, Turkish ministers have been trying to get wider support for these attacks. They have persuaded Iraq to define the PKK as a “banned organisation”, and they have got the United States to ignore reality and describe Turkey as a country committed to the fight against ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Meanwhile Turkey continues to destroy the environment and breach human rights, and international organisations produce reports but no action.