Turkey Says It Blocked Israeli Plan To Use Kurdish Fighters Against Iran
The reported operation would have armed Kurdish militias and sent about 500 fighters into Iran before Turkey pressed Washington to cancel it.
- Turkey successfully blocked an alleged Israeli plan to recruit Kurdish forces as a ground proxy against Iran, according to the government-affiliated newspaper Daily Sabah.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Central Intelligence Agency originally conceived the operation as a joint venture to build up Kurdish paramilitary capabilities and incite an internal uprising against Tehran.
- Ankara warned Kurdish leaders, including the Barzani and Talabani families, against cooperation and threatened action if the Kurdistan Workers Party participated; about 500 operatives reportedly left Iraq before the plan was halted.
- President Donald Trump canceled the operation following direct opposition from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who feared that empowering Kurdish factions could threaten Turkey's national security.
- Former Shin Bet informant Mosab Hassan Yousef alleged the broader strategy included installing former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a transitional leader, arguing that canceling the Kurdish component undermined the entire regime-change effort.
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It is about an operation against Iran. Because it would have provided for the arming of Kurds, Vance Turkish President Erdogan is said to have warned.
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The CIA was also involved in the plan to use Kurdish forces as part of a broader effort against Iran, but Turkish pressure reportedly led Trump to cancel it amid warnings of a wider regional conflict
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