Turkish operation in NE Syria revives ISIS – Swedish politician
ERBIL, KRI (North Press) – Amineh Kakabaveh, a senior Swedish parliamentarian, linked between the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) activity and the Turkey’s efforts to impose its vision on NATO members to classify the forces that have fought ISIS in Syria as terrorist force.
In an exclusive statement to North Press, Kakabaveh went further saying that Turkey pushes the European world to consider the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) a terrorist force as a condition in its talks with the NATO regarding the accession of Sweden and Finland to the alliance.
“I do not think that this is possible, as these forces were and are still supported by the US, as the US has been the one to push and encourage the accession of Sweden and Finland to the NATO, so it would be contradictory to accept the Turkish proposal,” she told North Press.
The politician stressed that the Turkish regime aims at hitting the Kurds by taking advantage of all opportunities to do so, including the Madrid Agreement.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has recently announced plans to carry out another major military cross-border incursion into northern Syria. Erdogan specified his targets in the two northern Syrian cities of Manbij and Tel Rifaat.
On July 1, Erdogan said that Ankara’s new military operation in northern Syria could begin at any moment.
“I always say that we can start [the incursion] at any moment at night. We should not worry and rush, especially since we are working in the area,” Erdogan told reporters after returning from the NATO summit in Madrid.
Kakabaveh noted that the world has so far ignored “the scale of human right violations inside Turkey, such as the arrest of thousands of oppositionists of the ruling party.”
The Swedish parliamentarian stressed that the return of the ISIS activities, above all, will constitute an aggression against all minorities in the region, especially in northeastern Syria.
She pointed out that any effort to hit the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) will be a chance to revive the ISIS.
The AANES was first formed in 2014 in the Kurdish-majority regions of Afrin, Kobani and Jazira in northern Syria following the withdrawal of the government forces. Later, it was expanded to Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa, Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) defeated ISIS militarily.
The Madrid Agreement, in the context of the efforts to include Sweden and Finland in the NATO, has a negative impact on the Kurdish issue in particular, because according to European countries the problem is that the Kurds themselves are disagreeable and have internal disputes, which negatively affect the Kurdish issue, she added.
“The administrative entity is formed in northeastern Syria, including various ethnicities and sects, is an ideology contradicts the barbaric ideology of ISIS,” Kakabaveh stressed.
She noted, “Solidarity showed among different communities and the formation of a joint administrative entity to maintain security and stability in Syria in general are matters also do not correspond with the vision of the dictatorial regime led by Bashar al-Assad, so changing that regime has become a condition for achieving freedom.”
Kakabaveh said that collapse of the ISIS caliphate in Syria and Iraq has strengthened security in the region as well as the world, which had been threatened by the extremist group.