The
Syrian Kurds march in the battlefields against the Islamic State,
having secured the support of the US and Russia, in the province of
Aleppo. Syrian Kurds now control 14% of the country's territory and
international analysts estimate that they are close to proclamation
of an autonomous region on the border with Turkey.
In fear of
confirmation of this scenario, Ankara has launched attacks against
Syrian Kurds, whom characterizes "terrorists", even asking
from the West a ground intervention under the pretext of ending the
war in the neighboring country. Turkey is ignoring both the US
recognition of Kurds as allies against the jihadists of the Islamic
State, and Russia, which has warned that a ground intervention of
foreign forces in Syria may trigger a third world war.
Turkish
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said today in an interview with
Reuters agency that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and some European countries
want to conduct a ground operation in Syria, but there is no broad
consensus in the coalition for such an intervention, and noted that
this possibility has not been discussed seriously.
“The
coalition has not given this ground operation issue serious debate.
There were opponents, and there were those who weren't going to take
part but expressed a desire for Turkey or another country doing it,”
he said.
Recall that
since Saturday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stated that
Turkey and Saudi Arabia could conduct a ground military action
against the Islamic State in Syrian territory. The two countries are
involved in in the US international coalition air strikes against the
Islamic State.
The forces
of the Kurdish Party of Democratic Union and the fighters of People's
Protection Units, the armed wing of the party, under the
authorization of the Bashar Al Assad regime and the support of Russia
and US, achieve continuous victories in the battlefields against the
Islamic State and now control 14% of the Syrian territory (26,000 sq.
km.), putting off the jihadists. According to the Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights, the Syrian Kurds control three quarters of the 800
km Turko-Syrian borders.
Their aim is
to unite the three Kurdish cantons, Afrin and Kobane in the province
of Aleppo and Jazira in Hasakah province, as well as autonomy for the
Kurdish regions similar to that of Iraqi Kurdistan. "The main
goal of the Kurds is the annexation of cantons. They want a
decentralized Syria operating through a system of cantons,"
states the analyst expert on Syria and the Kurds, Mutlu Civiroglu,
from Washington for the AFP.
Recall that
at the beginning of the war in Syria, Bashar al-Assad promised
recognition of an autonomous province to secure the support of the
Kurds, to repel the jihadists, who were spreading in Northern Syria.
Syrian Kurds have already established a local administration from the
northwest to the northeast part of the country.
Translated
from the original source:
Turkey also exploits the current
chaos and tries to crush Kurdish resistance. One of the reasons
that supports ISIS is to use it against the Kurds. It is a
sub-proxy war by Turkey in the area according to its own agenda.
The US are probably not very happy with that, because they want to
use ISIS in full force against Assad and consider Kurds as allies.
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