Moscow says Turkey’s actions “could further complicate the military and political situation in Syria, which is dire as it is” and jeopardy worldwide efforts to reach a peace deal.
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FILE – Kurdish fighters from the People’s Protection Units (YPG) stand near a military vehicle in the southeast of Qamishli city, Syria, April 22, 2016.
“If what the Russians and the Americans agree upon is very much different from what the Syrians aspire to, then we shall not accept it”, said Riad Hijab of the HNC.
“A no-fly zone would necessarily be contained to one specific area, and we have problems and violence across [Syria]”, Rhodes said.
US President Barack Obama floated the idea of joint action with Turkey to capture the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks published on Wednesday.
As Turkey clears its southern border with Syria of DAESH terrorists in cooperation with the Free Syrian Army (FSA), Syrian refugees taking shelter in the country are gaining new hope of returning to Syria if a safe zone is established on the Syrian side of the border. Why not just step aside and let the Turks make contact with their real target, the Syrian Kurdish army, without wasting everybody’s time?
Such advances, which are being made without coordination with the Damascus authorities and without the approval of the United Nations Security Council, “could further complicate the military and political situation in Syria, which is dire as it is”, the statement read. He says: “Turkey has now started to understand that Turkey adopted and supported Isis in order to weaken the Syrian government”.
It’d be an acknowledgement by Washington of Turkey’s continuing tactical interest in Syria.
Turkey sees the YPG as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is waging an insurgency on Turkish soil, seeking autonomy for Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast region. There continues to be no evidence in the US.
A Pravda.Ru correspondent asked the expert why Turkish President Erdogan accepted the proposal in light of the recent events in Turkey.
“Raqqa is an important center for Daesh”, Erdoğan said, using an Arabic acronym for the jihadist group.
Mr Dibo did not say so, but the danger for the two million Syrian Kurds is that they are isolated apart from the unsteady and largely military relationship with the US.
Turkey is regarded as instrumental in the fight against ISIS, bordering Syria and acting as a major transit route for rebels and arms heading there.
Ultimately, Turkey would like to force the Kurds to withdraw from Afrin.
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“We are talking about two superpowers with great stakes in Syria”.
