“SOHR: Turkish reinforcements to Syria”
“Turkey sent on Saturday, military reinforcements to the northern Syria, near an area controlled by kurdish forces, the president of the opposition Syrian människorättsobservatoriet (SOHR), which monitors the war from Britain.”
“Earlier in the week, after Donald Trump announced that the U.S. leaves Syria, promised Turkey to clear out both kurdstyrkor and IS out of the country.”
“the united states has for several years been training and fighting together with the opposition alliance, the SDF, which consist for the major part of the kurds. Turkey sees the kurdish YPG militia, which is included in the SDF, as an extension of the banned terrorist PKK guerrillas.”
“Ankara fears that a kurdish state would be established near the Turkish border, which, in turn, could strengthen the separatist aspirations of the kurdish minority in Turkey.”
“Turkey has in the past two years, has been conducting two offensives in northern Syria.”
