India, Jan. 24 -- Turkiye is celebrating the latest developments in Syria, where the new Government has effectively defeated a major Kurdish-led force with an abrupt offensive. Ankara has long viewed armed groups led by Kurds - an ethnic minority with large populations in eastern Turkiye, Iraq and northern Syria - as a threat as Turkiye as fought to quell the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, whose decades-long insurgency cost tens of thousands of lives.

Coming just a few months after a Kurdish militant group in Turkiye agreed to lay down its arms, the collapse of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces is a major step toward Ankara's regional goals. In just two weeks, Syria's Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces - once the United State...