Recently Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his party meeting said that “we will clean up Tal Rifat and Manbij of terrorists” in northern Syria.
Erdogan wants to create a 30 KM buffer zone along with the Turkish southern border to resettle around 1 million refugees out of 3.7 million refugees.
However, Turkey in previous military incursions has occupied very large Lands of northern Syria including Afrin, Tel Abyad and Jarablus.
Turkey says that the Syrian Kurdish fighters use Tel Rifaat as a base to attack areas held by Turkey-backed Syrian opposition fighters.
Turkish President called the Syrian Kurdish fighters terrorist. The Kurdish fighters are backed by American and they had fought a tuff fight with Islamic State in Syria. the People’s Protection Units or YPG, has a base in northern Syria and it is an extension of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.
“We’ll come down on them suddenly one night. And we must,” Erdogan said, without giving a specific timeline.
YPG linked Syrian democratic forces told AFP that “In the event of an attack, we will pause our war against the Islamic State group and start military measures against the Turkish invasion.”
America is also concerned with the new threats which is posed by turkey. US Secretary of State Antony blinken on June 1 said that “We continue effectively to take the fight through partners to … ISIS within Syria and we don’t want to see anything that jeopardises the efforts that are made to continue to keep ISIS in the box that we put it in.”
Today in the UNSC informal Arria meet on Syria India also expressed concern on the issue.
Indian representative in UN Pratik Mathur said that “threats of launching military operations by external actors” [Turkey] “in the territory of Syria have further worsened the situation,” he further added that “hostilities, including airstrikes and shelling in north-west Syria, continue to affect civilians, including women and children, and we remain gravely concerned with an increase in airstrikes in north-west Syria at the end of April.”
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