US President, Trump wants to pull off in Syria, stationed U.S. soldiers. The Turkish head of state Erdogan sees this out of the way, against the Syrian Kurdish militia YPG.
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Why the Turkish leadership insists on a campaign against the YPG?
From the point of view of the Turkish leadership is that the YPG is an offshoot of Turkey’s PKK and thus a terrorist organization. From the point of view of Washington, the YPG is a reliable Partner in the fight against the IS terrorist militia. Ankara, the YPG are likely to threaten the national security of Turkey. Therefore, Turkey has troops with the participation of Islamist relief a year ago, the Kurdish Canton of Afrin in the North-West of Syria occupied.
According to the scientific service of the German Bundestag, the evidence for the claimed right of self-defence. Turkey acts, therefore, in Syria, in violation of international law as an occupying power.
