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Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Isik said Thursday that Turkish troops will continue their military operation in Northern Syria until the Free Syrian Army (FSA) regains control of the town of Jarabulus.
The Turkish Army with the air support of the US-led coalition launched a military operation on Wednesday to allegedly drive ISIL out of Jarabulus town.
“Our main goal is to clear Jarabulus of the Daesh terrorist group militants. The second goal is to prevent Syrian Kurds from taking control of the area after Daesh clear-out. Jarabulus is an important point in both a short and long-term perspective. We have to defend our borders by ourselves as Syria does not have an effective government. And we are within our right to stay in the area until the Free Syrian Army regains control over the situation there,” Isik was quoted as saying by the NTV broadcaster.
The YPG Kurdish forces and the Free Syrian Army have both raced towards Jarabulus to take the city after ISIL started withdrawing from the Northern Aleppo city.
“Turkey expects Syrian Kurds to leave the Western bank of the Euphrates within the next week”, Isik said.
“The Syrian Kurds will inevitably retreat to the East. We agreed with the United States a week ago that the Kurds would retreat to the Eastern bank of the Euphrates in two weeks. This exodus is expected to end next week. The exodus is not completed, we are waiting for that and monitoring that,” he added.
Early reports on Thursday indicated the arrival of new Turkish troops in Syria as witnesses told Reuters at least nine more Turkish tanks entered Northern Syria on Thursday as part of Ankara’s military operation aimed at driving ISIL out of the border area around Jarabulus and stopping Kurdish fighters from seizing territory.
Meanwhile, a senior Turkish official said there were now more than 20 Turkish tanks inside Syria and that additional tanks and construction machinery would be sent in as required
“We need construction machinery to open up roads… and we may need more in the days ahead. We also have armored personnel carriers that could be used on the Syrian side. We may put them into service as needed,” the official stressed.
The Syrian foreign ministry had condemned Ankara’s cross-border military operation and entry of Turkish special forces and tanks into Northern Syria.
“Damascus condemns the entry of Turkish army’s tanks into Northern Syria as a blatant violation of its sovereignty,” a Syrian foreign ministry official said on Wednesday.
The Syrian government also reacted to the Turkish officials’ claims that the Turkish troops have entered Northern Syria to fight the ISIL terrorists, and said, “Fighting the ISIL will not be realized by only running the ISIL from Northern Syria and replacing it with other terrorist groups supported by Turkey.”
The Russian foreign Ministry had also said on Wednesday that the Syrian crisis can only be resolved through dialogue and on the basis of international law, expressing worry over reports of Turkey’s cross-border attack into Northern Syria.
“Moscow is deeply concerned about what is happening in the Syrian-Turkish border area,” the ministry said, adding that further degradation in the conflict zone and the prospect of Kurdish-Arab ethnic conflict raises alarm, Sputnik reported.
“We are convinced that the Syrian crisis can be resolved only on the solid basis of international law, through broad intra-Syrian dialogue with the participation of all ethnic and religious groups, including Kurds, and on the basis of the June 30, 2012, Geneva Communique, Resolution 2254 and other UN Security Council resolutions adopted on the initiative of the International Syria Support Group,” the ministry stressed.
According to reports, Turkish special forces have entered Syrian territory as Ankara began cross-border “Euphrates Shield” military operation against the ISIL group early on Wednesday.
CNN Turk also reported Wednesday citing military officials that Turkish battle tanks heaved over 200 projectiles hitting some 70 ISIL targets in the vicinity of the Syrian city of Jarablus. Meanwhile, the Turkish Air Force’s F-16 jets struck 11 terrorist targets.
According to the Turkish television news channel citing military sources, the operation could last 15 days, and it aims to fully liberate Jarablus from ISIL and make a progress toward the Takfiri terrorist group’s de facto capital of Raqqa.
Meantime, Turkish President President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed on Wednesday that the aim of Ankara’s military operation in Northern Syria is to eliminate threats from both the ISIL and the Kurds.
“We started a military operation in Northern Syria at 4 a.m. this morning, aimed at eliminating the threats posed by Daesh (ISIL) and Syrian Kurds,” President Erdogan said, adding that Turkey intends to put a stop to attacks on Turkish territory from neighboring Syrian regions.
“Turkey is ready to take joint steps both with the international coalition forces and with Russia,” President Erdogan underlined.
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Euphrates Shield – Day 2 – Colonel Cassad
Briefly about developments in northern Syria, where the operation of the Turkish Army is developing “Euphrates shield”.
1. Dzharablus almost completely controlled by the Turks, although some snipers “black” there postrelivat today. In the city was a small Turkish military parade.
2. Turkish armored vehicles during the night and in the morning continued to go to the Syrian territory and to concentrate in the border areas. In addition, imported ammunition and ammunition for the rebels.
3. Advanced militias spread south from Dzharablusa, establish the line of contact with the Kurds. Clashes between Kurds and pro-Turkish militants yesterday were sporadic.
4. Under pressure from the US today, the Kurds were forced to surrender manbij, the power that is supplied with a certain “local council”. In the city there are small Kurdish forces under the pretext of “mine clearance”. Expected. that the city will take PAS.
5. According to the US demand, the Kurds of the YPG and PYD have to stop all operations west of the Euphrates, the Kurds actually forced to abandon their territories compounds in northern Syria.
6. “Green” have announced that they are going to step on the RACC. If no Turkish army, then I think it is the success of the event will not have. The experience of failed offensives by the US support of the Kurds and the CAA, with the support of the Russian Federation as it suggests.
7. Caliphate continued to divert forces to the southeast and to prepare for the siege of Al-Bab. In the city continue to build capacity, is strengthening and defensive ring around the city.
8. Turkey has officially declared that the troops would remain in the territory of Syria, is from the border areas will be completely expelled the Caliphate and until these territories will not take PAS. The transition of these territories, Turkey will not allow the control of the Kurds.
In general, we see that under the pretext of the Caliphate, Turkey strongly suppresses the Kurds attempt to create their own state on the territory of Syria. US under the same desire not to allow too much rapprochement between Turkey and Russia and Iran, apparently went to her assignment, sacrificing the interests of the Syrian Kurds to normalize relations with Erdogan.
Well, about the role of Russia, it all quite clearly explained in the French Le Monde:
Russia’s influence on the situation in Syria is so great that, without at least the tacit consent of Moscow, Turkey could not join the strikes against the Islamists, writes Le Monde. However, Ankara is increasingly engaged in the struggle not to “Islamic state”, and tries to prevent the union of the Kurds on its borders, the newspaper notes. Never before has Russia not as master of the situation in Syria, as it is now, writes Le Monde. And so, although Moscow and expressed its deep concern about Turkey’s intervention in the conflict, it could not have happened without at least the tacit consent of the Kremlin, especially since the Russian air control sky in northwest Syria, the author writes.
Russia in Syria as a military and diplomatic career is still in a position of strength, despite reports about the alleged use of UN forces in the region, Assad’s chemical weapons. These charges can bring Moscow certain difficulties, especially in the summer of 2013 it was the Russian president took the initiative, which will save Bashar Assad’s regime with the elimination of its chemical arsenals. If the agreement has been violated, it will not remain without consequences, warns edition. The rest of the Moscow seems to have all the cards in his hands, as the author of the article. The heads of the US and Russian diplomats are due to meet on Friday in Geneva to try to reach an agreement on a ceasefire in the region. France also fears that Russia supports the increasing strikes Assad, which causes them to militants to regain control of Aleppo. At the same time, and Paris, and the Arab countries have criticized the United States for the lack of commitment and for the fact that they are interested in only the alleged fight against extremists, and more serious intervention they consider too risky.
Washington, like Paris, welcomed the intensification of the struggle of the Turkish authorities against the “Islamic State” *, although all are well aware that their real goal – to prevent the Kurds to unite on the border with Turkey, and not fight against the jihadists. Accelerated meeting Putin and Erdogan, Turkey’s Syrian policy rethinking is beginning to bear fruit, the newspaper writes. Initially Turkey loudly voiced for the removal of Assad from power. Now, however, the tone changed: Assad in Turkey is called “one of the actors of war” and the required side in the negotiations, although Syria’s future, its role is still not recognized. Intensive negotiations Ankara became the lead and with two other allies of Damascus – Moscow and Tehran, and they even speak about the possibility of cooperation in the preparation of the “road map” to overcome the crisis.
By the way, notes Le Monde, Moscow time disown relations with the Kurds, even though, according to the publication, one time even supplied them with weapons. “Although Moscow and expects to keep up their sleeve this card reconciliation with Turkey is likely to be held in part behind the Kurds”, – the author writes.
http://www.vitrenko.org/article/31989 – Zinc
The bottom line, as the United States only exposed the Kurdish ambitions and intentions to destroy the territorial integrity of Syria, after Turkey’s negotiations with Russia and Iran, followed countermeasures aimed at the relief of this threat, opposed by Russia, Syria and Turkey. Erdogan’s hands between the Kurdish regions put a block of pro-Turkish militants. Assad actually has nothing to lose, since we are talking about the area, and so he has no control over – just one territory under the control of the Kurds and the Caliphate redistributed “green”, simultaneously weakening their position in Latakia and Idlib. For the US, this is not a great loss, because the Kurds are initially treated as consumables. Major losers from these backroom schemes – it is the Kurds and the Caliphate. The first is actually deprived of the territorial basis on which they could proclaim the great Syrian Kurdistan, and their significant manbij forced to surrender, they stormed the 75 days and lost with the hundreds of people killed. Now the city are forced to deliver pro-Turkish militants who stormed it a day and that is not the fact that we were able to take it yourself. Especially offensive to the Kurds is the pill which the US forced them to swallow. “Black” is trite asked to withdraw from northern Syria and in this respect they are finally at the strategic level reaped the consequences of situational agreements between the enemies of the Caliphate, which “black” so recklessly spawn in 2013-2015.
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Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2016/08/isis-update-8252016turkey-expects.html
