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    Turkey attacking Syrian Kurds to prevent Raqqa recapture, PYD says

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    Post by Rocky Wed 26 Oct 2016, 5:42 am

    Turkey attacking Syrian Kurds to prevent Raqqa recapture, PYD says
    Posted on October 26, 2016 by Editorial Staff in Kurdistan
    Turkey attacking Syrian Kurds to prevent Raqqa recapture, PYD says Syrian-Kurdish-PYD-party-representative-to-France-Khaled-Issa-2014-afp
    Khaled Issa, the representative of Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party PYD to France. Photo: AFP

    PARIS,— A Syrian Kurd leader in France on Tuesday accused Turkey of “massively attacking” Kurdish forces in Syrian Kurdistan (northern Syria) trying to recapture Raqqa, the Islamic State group stronghold in Syria.
    “With its artillery and aircraft, the Turkish army is taking advantage of the media and international community’s focus on Mosul to massively attack Syrian Kurds to stop them taking Raqqa,” Khalen Issa told a news conference in Paris.
    Iraq announced the launch of the operation to retake Mosul from IS on October 17, and has since been advancing towards the city from the south, east and north.

    Issa, the representative of Syrian Kurds in France, said that in their preparations to retake Raqqa, the US-backed Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) “have liberated several villages occupied by Daesh (an alternative name for IS) to the northeast of Aleppo.”
    “If Turkish artillery and aircraft are heavily bombing SDF positions in this zone and in the Afrin district it is partly to stop them (SDF) cutting Daesh supply lines to Raqqa and partly to allow Turkey to keep control of 70 kilometres (43 miles) of its border with Syria,” he said.
    “We cannot go and fight in Raqqa when the Turkish army is bombing us… Conditions are not in place to take Raqqa,” he said.
    Accusing the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of “rushing to Daesh’s rescue,” Issa called on France and other permanent members of the UN Security Council “to put an end to Erdogan’s irresponsible actions which hamper the fight against Daesh.”
    On Saturday, the Turkish military said it had hit Kurdish militia targets in Syrian Kurdistan for the second time in less than 72 hours.
    On August 24, Turkey has launched an incursion into northern Syria, in an area some 100 km (60 miles) east of Afrin to stop the US-backed Kurdish YPG forces from extending areas under their control and connecting Syrian Kurdistan’s Kobani and Hasaka in the east with Afrin canton in the west. Turkish military operations are focused on Syrian Kurdish forces and not Islamic State, observers say.
    Turkey is keen to prevent the creation of an autonomous Kurdish “canton” in Syrian Kurdistan because of the presence there of Kurdish groups — the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Kurdish Democratic Union (PYD) – which it deems terrorist organisations with links to Turkey’s banned insurgent Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
    Washington regards the Kurdish YPG as key ally against Islamic State and the most effective fighting force against IS in Syria and has provided them with air support as well as the military advisers. The Kurdish militia has seized swathes of Syria from Islamic State.
    Issa said the Turkish military had again attacked SDF positions on Monday night.
    Turkey which still denies the constitutional existence of its own Kurds numbering to 22.5 million, fears the creation of an autonomous Kurdish region in Syrian Kurdistan — similar to the Kurdish region in Iraqi Kurdistan — would spur the separatist ambitions of Kurds in Turkish Kurdistan.
    Syrian Kurds have established three autonomous zones, or Cantons of Jazeera, Kobani and Afrin and a Kurdish government across Syrian Kurdistan (northern Syria) in 2013. On March 17, 2016 Syria’s Kurds declared a federal region in Syrian Kurdistan.

    http://ekurd.net/syrian-kurds-turkey-raqqa-2016-10-26

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