Turkey intimidated on Tuesday to release an armed forces procedure versus Kurdish pressures in Syria unless they approved Ankara’s problems for a “bloodless” shift after the death of President Bashar Assad.
“We will do what’s necessary” if the Kurdish- led People’s Protection Units (YPG) fall short to consent to Turkish needs, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan informed CNNTurk tv.
When asked what that may involve, he stated a “military operation.”
Turkey thinks about the YPG, which leads the US-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as a terrorist attire connected to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has actually been participated in a decades-old revolt versus the Turkish state.
Fidan claims final word is ‘evident’
Assad’s be up to Islamist- led rebels last month increased the possibility of Turkey interfering in Syria versus Kurdish pressures implicated by Ankara of web links to the disallowed PKK.
“Those international fighters who came from Turkey, Iran and Iraq must leave Syria immediately. We see neither any preparation nor any intention in this direction right now and we are waiting,” Fidan stated.
“The ultimatum we gave them (the YPG) through the Americans is obvious,” he included.
Over the last 9 years, Turkey has actually carried out several ground procedures in Syria to press Kurdish pressures far from its boundary.
jsi/zc (AFP, Reuters)
