AGSIW Senior Resident Scholar Hussein Ibish addressed Turkey’s strikes in Syria and its fight against Kurdish groups in two articles by Middle East Eye, “US rejects criticism over Turkey’s strikes on Kurdish groups” and “US and British volunteers describe fighting with Kurds in Syria.” Discussing potential U.S.-Turkish cooperation, Ibish mentioned that Turkey is more concerned with countering the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) than the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (ISIL), stating, “Turkey has pledged to establish a safe zone in Northern Syria under the rubric of its intervention against IS. But one of its primary aims will be to deny the YPG [Kurdish People’s Protection Units] control of a large, contiguous area across the soft Turkish underbelly near its own restive Kurdish areas.”