Post by account_disabled on Mar 9, 2024 0:46:32 GMT -5
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan , confirmed this Wednesday afternoon the beginning of the offensive on northern Syria. After his statements, numerous aerial bombardments took place on Kurdish border towns, followed a few hours later by the beginning of ground incursions. The operation has been expected since Donald Trump ordered his troops to withdraw from the area a few days ago in collusion with the Turkish army. Erdogan's government has been eager to end any possible Kurdish self-government in Syria since the origins of this movement at the beginning of the civil war, however, the Kurds' frontal antagonism with jihadist groups.
Their alliance with the international coalition against the Islamic State had curbed Turkish ambitions until now. The US, which seemed to be pursuing a solution Iraq Telegram Number Data through dialogue between both parties, has decided to leave in the face of the Turkish offensive to avoid a conflict with its NATO ally, behavior that many of its former Kurdish allies describe as betrayal. The reason for the antagonism between the Kurdish self-government and the Turkish government is that the Erdogan government considers that the PYD, the hegemonic Kurdish party in northern Syria, is linked to the PKK, an organization that has been in open conflict with the Turkish state since and which it considers a terrorist group.
The only reason why their intervention has been delayed so long is that the armed wing of the PYD or YPG has been the skeleton of the Kurdish-Arab coalition that has defeated the Islamic State caliphate with the logistical and air support of the international coalition. Over the course of the war, this coalition known since as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has lost more than , fighters in the fight against jihadism, and currently controls almost a third of the country. The Turkish government's intention is to penetrate a -kilometer strip into Syria to relocate a significant part of the million Syrian refugees it houses, thus changing the demographic structure of the predominantly Kurdish region.
Their alliance with the international coalition against the Islamic State had curbed Turkish ambitions until now. The US, which seemed to be pursuing a solution Iraq Telegram Number Data through dialogue between both parties, has decided to leave in the face of the Turkish offensive to avoid a conflict with its NATO ally, behavior that many of its former Kurdish allies describe as betrayal. The reason for the antagonism between the Kurdish self-government and the Turkish government is that the Erdogan government considers that the PYD, the hegemonic Kurdish party in northern Syria, is linked to the PKK, an organization that has been in open conflict with the Turkish state since and which it considers a terrorist group.
The only reason why their intervention has been delayed so long is that the armed wing of the PYD or YPG has been the skeleton of the Kurdish-Arab coalition that has defeated the Islamic State caliphate with the logistical and air support of the international coalition. Over the course of the war, this coalition known since as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has lost more than , fighters in the fight against jihadism, and currently controls almost a third of the country. The Turkish government's intention is to penetrate a -kilometer strip into Syria to relocate a significant part of the million Syrian refugees it houses, thus changing the demographic structure of the predominantly Kurdish region.