Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that the USA continues to help terrorism inside Syria and Iraq, blaming the insecurity confronted by the Arab nations on the USA and its allies whereas claiming that Ankara is preventing terrorists in Syria.
Chatting with reporters on Thursday following a one-day working go to to Ukraine, Erdogan mentioned it’s Washington and its allied forces that “primarily feed terrorism” in Syria.
“They did it brutally they usually nonetheless do it,” he mentioned. “They didn’t get uninterested in it, they usually additionally made the identical feeding in Iraq. To whom? Once more to terrorist organizations. If there may be unrest in Iraq in the present day, sadly, America lies behind it.”
Numerous experiences have emerged through the years revealing the US army’s help for terrorist teams, together with Daesh, in Syria and Iraq.
Again in Could, a variety of captured Daesh terrorists confessed to shut cooperation with US army forces stationed at al-Tanf base, which is located close to Syria’s borders with Iraq and Jordan, within the central Syrian province of Homs on finishing up numerous acts of terror and sabotage.
Throughout confessions broadcast on Syria’s state-run tv community, a number of terrorists revealed that they had been instructed by American forces to focus on Syrian authorities troops in and across the historic metropolis of Palmyra, the Tiyas Navy Airbase – often known as the T-4 Airbase, the Shaer fuel area in addition to close by oil wells.
Syria’s official information company SANA, citing native sources talking on situation of anonymity, reported that a variety of Daesh terrorists had been being skilled on the US army base in al-Shaddadi city of Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah on learn how to fireplace rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), shoulder-launched rockets in addition to anti-armor and anti-aircraft missiles.
Nonetheless, Erdogan made the remarks in reference to US-backed Kurdish militants affiliated with the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), with which Turkey has been preventing in Syria. Damascus has repeatedly denounced each Washington and Ankara’s unlawful army presence on Syrian soil.
Ankara not eyeing Syrian territory: Erdogan
In his Friday remarks, Erdogan as soon as once more claimed that Ankara’s primary rivalry is the combat in opposition to terrorism in northern Syria, including that Turkey is prepared for a army operation in opposition to terrorist teams within the Arab nation.
The Turkish president additionally mentioned Ankara is just not eyeing Syria and that Syria’s territorial integrity is necessary to Turkey.
“We wouldn’t have eyes on the territory of Syria as a result of the folks of Syria are our brothers. We’ve no such downside there. The integrity of their territory is necessary to us,” he mentioned.
On August 8, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted at his nation’s plan for a brand new cross-border operation in Syria to take away members of the US-backed Kurdish Folks’s Safety Units (YPG) militant group, which is the spine of the SDF.
“We’ll proceed our combat in opposition to terrorism. Our choice to ascertain a 30-kilometer-deep (18.6-mile) safe line alongside our southern border is last,” Erdogan mentioned in an deal with to Turkish diplomats attending the thirteenth Ambassadors Convention within the capital Ankara.
Final month, Erdogan acknowledged {that a} new Turkish operation in opposition to the YPG militants will stay on the agenda till safety considerations are addressed.
On Tuesday, the Syrian armed forces carried out a counterattack in opposition to Turkish army websites inside Syria, inflicting materials and human losses on them. The reprisal got here after a Turkish airstrike killed no less than three Syrian troopers and wounded six others close to the western Syrian metropolis of Aleppo.
