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Turkey Claims It Blocked Israel’s Kurdish Proxy Play Turkey says it stopped what Daily Sabah describes as an Israeli-U.S. plan to use Kurdish groups as ground proxies in the war on Iran. The story reads like classic regional geometry: Israel wants pressure on Iran, Washington wants leverage, and Ankara wants to make sure Kurdish armed groups do not become the bridge between the two. The reporting says Kurdish fighters were allegedly being moved from Iraq toward Iran and that Turkey intervened through intelligence and diplomatic channels, including contacts with Kurdish political families in northern Iraq. Israel has not confirmed the claim, which matters because this is still a claim, not a verified battlefield fact. But the politics behind it are real enough. Turkey sees any Kurdish military role in Iran as a direct threat to its own security and to the regional balance, especially if that role is tied to Israeli or American strategy. In Ankara’s telling, this is not just about Iran; it is about preventing a new Kurdish front from becoming permanent. The bigger pattern is familiar. Iran gets hit, proxy ideas multiply, and every state in the neighborhood starts treating ethnic and sectarian groups as tools, buffers, or liabilities. Turkey’s move, whether one reads it as principled or self-interested, is really about keeping the war from spilling into a mess that could outlive the war itself. #Turkey#Iran#Israel#Kurds#proxywar#MiddleEast#geopolitics 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸