In a statement Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said operation will be launched without the inclusion of U.S supported Syrian Kurdish militia blacklisted by Ankara.
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According to him, “if we join, they will have their own special forces, and we will have ours”.
“We say okay, a second front should be opened but not with the PYD”, he said, referring to the Democratic Union Party, the YPG’s political wing.
The United Nations said on Tuesday it was anxious about 8,000 Syrians trapped by fighting north of Aleppo where the Islamic State has advanced against rebels, and that both Kurdish and rebel authorities had hindered people fleeing the area.
Cavusoglu said Syrian Arab opposition forces opposing the regime of President Bashar al-Assad could be backed by special forces from Turkey, the United States as well as France, Britain and Germany. “But they will not engage in direct combat”, the official said.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked: “What business have Russian Federation and Iran [in Syria]?”
Thousands of civilians and hundreds of aid workers are “in immediate danger” in northern Syria, an aid group has warned, after a massive onslaught by Islamic State militants split the last rebel-held enclave north of Aleppo in two.
The Syrian Kurds have been an effective force against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and the USA considers the YPG one of its strongest allies on the ground in Syria.
Reports suggest he was killed alongside other soldiers fighting against Islamic State militants in Syria.
One commenter recalled how, after a six-hour battle in which many IS fighters were killed, Mr Bright did not want to be photographed for fear he could face prosecution in Australia.
An anaesthetist who fled Marea with his family after five relatives were killed in shelling said late Saturday that just four medical staff remained in the town’s only hospital. It also further erodes rebel control there from the west.
IS on Friday encroached from the east on a narrow area of rebel control connected to the Turkish border, through which the rebels have received support.
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The city itself is not a target of the current offensive however, the SDF has said. Local media activist Mohamad Sabai also reported the attack. The U.N. humanitarian aid coordinator for Syria, Jan Egeland, said Thursday the situation inside was “horrendously critical”.
