Turkey will sweep the Democratic Party Union (PYD) from Manbij, a key Syrian city close to the Turkish border that has been liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has vowed.
“We are determined to clear the PYD from Manbij,” Erdoğan said on Oct. 26, addressing a meeting of muhtars (neighborhood heads) at a meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara.
“We will do whatever necessary if they do not return back across the other side of the Euphrates river,” Erdoğan said.
Turkey, which considers the PYD and its armed wing People’s Protection Units (PYD) as a terrorist organization linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), says the group should not pass to the west of the Euphrates river and rejects any option of cooperating with PKK-affiliated groups in fights against ISIL either in Syria or Iraq.
“There is an effort to form a terror corridor along the border but we will not permit this,” Erdoğan said.
“Let’s make a joint fight against terrorist organizations. But Aleppo belongs to the people of Aleppo, we must explain this ... making calculations over Aleppo would not be right,” he added.
His comments came after forces allied to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned Turkey against any advance toward their positions to the north and east of Aleppo, saying any such move would be met “decisively and with force.”
[hurriyetdailynews.com]
26/10/16
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“We are determined to clear the PYD from Manbij,” Erdoğan said on Oct. 26, addressing a meeting of muhtars (neighborhood heads) at a meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara.
“We will do whatever necessary if they do not return back across the other side of the Euphrates river,” Erdoğan said.
Turkey, which considers the PYD and its armed wing People’s Protection Units (PYD) as a terrorist organization linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), says the group should not pass to the west of the Euphrates river and rejects any option of cooperating with PKK-affiliated groups in fights against ISIL either in Syria or Iraq.
“There is an effort to form a terror corridor along the border but we will not permit this,” Erdoğan said.
“Let’s make a joint fight against terrorist organizations. But Aleppo belongs to the people of Aleppo, we must explain this ... making calculations over Aleppo would not be right,” he added.
His comments came after forces allied to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned Turkey against any advance toward their positions to the north and east of Aleppo, saying any such move would be met “decisively and with force.”
[hurriyetdailynews.com]
26/10/16
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