Turkish threats against NE Syria aim to hit Kurdish presence: politician
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – The ongoing Turkish threats against areas of Syria’s northeast aim to hit the Kurdish presence represented by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Syrian politician said on Tuesday.
“After ten years, Turkish pretexts, policies and goals regarding the Syrian interior are no longer unreadable by followers,” Secretary of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party in Syria (Yekiti), Muhiddin Sheikh Aly, told North Press.
Following a month of threats and warnings, Turkey froze the military operation, that it planned to launch against areas in north and east Syria, due to the continuous rejections by Russia and US in addition to the absence of any consensus on this regard.
“Turkish media pressure is still continuing to carry out the military action in the region, and that the Turkish army is ready to conduct and set plans for any future military action according to field requirements,” Turkish diplomatic sources told London-based The New Arab previously.
However, it is not likely that there is currently a direct military action, and “Ankara has suspended operations for the time being,” according to the sources.
Both US and Russian reservations regarding the Syrian issue and others “made Turkey wait and refrain, at present, from step on a military action in Syria that will cost it a lot,” Sheikh Aly said.
Meanwhile, these reservations were accompanied by other factors including the unprecedented decline of the Turkish currency value, according to Sheikh Alyi.
He pointed out that Turkey aims “to weaken the SDF, confuse the Asayish, distract the AANES, and spread insecurity and chaos in the region, enabling the Islamic State (ISIS) sleeper cells to revive.”
Earlier, the former US Special Envoy for Syria, James Jeffrey, confirmed that US President Joe Biden did not give Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a green light to launch a new attack on north and east Syria.
Russia’s rejection was expressed through carrying out exercises in the northwestern countryside of Hasakah, east of the Euphrates River, with the Syrian government forces and the SDF, each separately.