The content of the conflict between Ahrar Al-Sham and Tahrir Al Sham has been discussed with great courage in Turkısh media, despite the fact that they do not have full knowledge of the dimensions and consequences of the issue.

Although six years passed, the Turkish media is still approach to Syria with conspiracy theories and slogans. On Syria, Turkey’s agenda changed with the alliance of the enemies and started to see İdlib as a simple bribe. Turkey, with a strange social psychology, forgets basic security problems and believes that it can put an end to the relationship between the US and the PKK İdlib swap.

Turkey’s Syrian policy can be criticized in various ways. However, for the last two years, this policy has led to a stalemate and is arrive turning point with the support given by the US to the PKK.

Turkey was expected to have influence in Syria for a longer period than the United States. But Turkey has constantly been driven away for various internal and external reasons. Turkey, experiencing structural problems due to the coup attempt on July 15, does not seem to be able to intervene the PKK outside the country in the short-term.

So, will Turkey in this case bring Idlib to the table as a proposal against the PKK?

Idlib is a security priority of Turkey against PKK

When we look at the map, the Euphrates Shield region is stuck in the north. Proposing the Idlib to the US (or Russia and Assad) in response to PKK will create a greater risk for the Euphrates Shield in the coming days.

Those who think that Turkey will bring such a proposal to the table should not be familiar to the way the states think.

Because Turkey’s security policy is based on responding to the PKK inside Syria in a possible regional war. In this respect, it is possible to see Euphrates Shield not only as a struggle against ISIS but also as an operation in which Turkey is face it out the PKK on the front line in Syria.

In the simplest way, Idlib is the insurance of the Euphrates Shield region, regardless of which groups are living in there. For Turkey, this should be seen as a military necessity rather than a political choice.

Turkey is subject to many criticisms of İdlib. However, Idlib, as the most definitive result of US policies in Syria, has become a difficult physical field for Turkey to abandon. Perhaps the United States is aware of this and it is doing its best to make this a dead end for Turkey.

If we go back, it will be disaster for Turkey to put Idlib in a table as a cheap trump card, in the face of US multilayered policy.

There will be those who do not agree that Idlib is an insurance for Turkey. But the same people do not know how to solve the relationship and consequences between the Assad regime and the PKK.