prior to the announcement of the troop withdrawal by the US President, Trump head of state, Erdogan announced a Turkish Offensive against Kurds in Syria. The withdrawal of US soldiers is making the way for free.
the Turkey is now walking in the North of Syria, or not? Since the days of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks of the territories East of the river Euphrates by Kurdish rebels free. Every night it could be so far.
After the US President, Trump announced on Thursday, surprisingly, the withdrawal of the still stationed American soldiers, would be the way for Erdogan’s next Syrian Offensive basically free. But then the Turkish state and head of government said: “My phone call with Mr Trump, the circles and contacts between our diplomats and security and also the Declaration of the American side, from Syria to withdraw, have brought us to wait a little.”
Forever Erdogan will not wait determined, he said. But only for so long until the United States have withdrawn their 2000 soldiers. This can take days or, more likely, a couple of weeks.
the fight against the IS not first priority
SDF fighters in Northern Syria, along with US units against the IS.
Erdogan announced plans to use the interim time to plan exactly how Turkey will eliminate the Kurdish rebels and the remaining units of the terrorist militia “Islamic state” in Northern Syria. This is the main interest of Turkey in Syria, says the head of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Istanbul, Kristian Brakel: you wanted it, to end the domination of the Kurdish forces, notably the PYD and the YPG, and push back.
Western Kurdistan as a buffer zone
The talk is of West Kurdistan, a quasi-Autonomous Kurdish Zone along the border, the control of Erdogan and as a buffer zone, wants to set up. Erdogan fears that a strengthened autonomy of the Kurds will intensify in Syria, the separatist aspirations of the Kurds in Turkey. The PYD and YPG he sees as the Syrian Arm of the in Turkey, the US and the EU as a terrorist organization, the outlawed Kurdish workers ‘ party PKK.
Brakel is not believed that a military operation in Northern Syria but against the Kurdish population:
“Only those governmental and military structures are to be replaced. This also depends quite strongly of what Damascus is doing what allows Moscow. I think the last word is not spoken yet.”
