๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฒ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ช ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐๐ซ๐๐ “๐ฅ๐๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ญ๐ฌ,” ๐๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ค๐๐ฒ’๐ฌ ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐ง.
After the suicide explosion in Ankara, The PKK/YPG’s infrastructure in Iraq and Syria are “legitimate targets,” according to Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. In reference to the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and its Syrian affiliate, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), he threatened “very unambiguous” reprisal. On Sunday, a bomb went off outside of the Turkish police headquarters, killing two attackers and wounding two police officers.
For years, Turkey has urged the United States to cut ties with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and pull its roughly 900 special operations personnel out of the Kurdish-run autonomous zone in northern Syria. US forces, according to the Biden administration, would remain in northeast Syria indefinitely to suppress any remaining members of the jihadist terror organization.
According to American military sources, a spate of assassinations of high-level YPG officials appears to be meant to degrade morale and weaken the long-term coherence of the multiethnic SDF alliance, and Ankara’s new threats foreshadow a potential escalation in Syria. In addition, the Turkish military has launched three major combat operations against Kurdish factions in Syria.
Concerned about a fresh military escalation in northern Syria, the SDF has called Turkey’s warnings “pointless” and has called on the international community to take action. Following Sunday’s attack, Turkey has continued its airstrikes against PKK camps in the highlands of northern Iraq, with additional strikes on Wednesday bringing the total number of targets struck to 58. As a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty, Baghdad has criticized Turkish airstrikes and ongoing military operations against PKK bases in the nation.
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