In a Thursday assembly chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Nationwide Safety Council mentioned ongoing preparations for a potential navy operation in northern Syria. This adopted Ankara’s announcement that it received’t watch for anybody’s “permission” to guard its southern borders.
“Turkey can not stand idly in Syria,” International Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stated Thursday in a televised interview, including that the operation within the Levantine nation may begin in a single day.
The feedback from Cavusoglu got here two days after a summit in Tehran at which each Russia and Iran urged in opposition to Turkey’s proposed new marketing campaign in northern Syria.
Since Could, Erdogan has been speaking about Turkey’s plans to launch a brand new navy operation in Syria in opposition to the Syrian Kurdish Individuals’s Safety Units (YPG) in an effort to hyperlink up two areas already underneath Turkish management within the northern area close to the Turkish border.
Erdogan stated the intention is to create a 30-km secure zone alongside the Turkish border with Syria.
Ankara sees the YPG because the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Employees’ Celebration (PKK), listed as a terrorist group by Turkey, the US, and the EU. The PKK has been rebelling in opposition to the Turkish authorities for over 30 years.
Erdogan additionally burdened that the troops of the US ought to go away the western aspect of the Euphrates, and this was the widespread understanding of the final summit with the Russian and Iranian leaders.
Turkey was in the identical opinion as a result of it believed that the US was giving assist to the “terrorist organizations there,” he stated.
“Since America is harboring terrorist organizations and we’re combating in opposition to these terrorist organizations, our work can be simpler if it withdraws from there or if it doesn’t harbor these terrorist organizations,” Erdogan added.
“The file of the brand new navy operation in northern Syria will stay on our agenda till our nationwide safety issues are dispelled,” the Turkish president advised his Nationwide Safety Council.
Erdogan identified that the YPG, the biggest part of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), believes in useless that it may possibly deceive the Turkish military by elevating the Syrian regime’s flag over its positions in northern Syria.
