Turkey has accused Syria’s Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) of working with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the country and threatened to launch attacks if the militant group did not agree to Ankara’s demands. He is threatening to do so. The fall of Bashar al-Assad.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan made the remarks in an interview with CNN Turkish TV channel on Tuesday, stressing that Syria’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) terror regime needs to address the issue of the YPG presence. .
Fidan said if the YPG did not meet Turkey’s demands and Damascus failed to address the issue, “we will do what is necessary.”
Asked what that would entail, he said “a military operation.”
He went on to say that Turkey believes HTS has the capacity to fight the YPG on its own, but added that this may take some time as a transition period is underway in Damascus. Ta.
Since the fall of the Assad regime, the Turkish government has demanded that the YPG be disbanded, that non-Syrian armed groups and foreign terrorist fighters be removed from Syria or returned to their countries of origin, and that its leaders surrender.
Fidan also pointed out that the United States supports the YPG for a variety of reasons, including confronting the terrorist organization Daesh during the YPG’s presence in Syria.
But many of those reasons no longer exist, he said, adding: “It is clear that we have given them (YPG) an ultimatum through the Americans.”
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