[Peace-discuss] Turkey is vowing to protect a town occupied by al-Qaida from falling to Kurdish fighters.

[David Johnson]

Turkey is vowing to protect a town occupied by al-Qaida from falling to
Kurdish fighters.

 

Turkey said Tuesday it wanted to invade Syria to stop Kurdish militias from
consolidating control of a key border town.

 

Turkish forces could soon seize control of the Syrian town of Azaz and
surrounding areas, according to Deputy Prime Minister Talcin Akdogan.

 

"What we want is to create a secure strip, including Azaz, 10 kilometers
deep inside Syria and this zone should be free from clashes," Akdogan said,
according to Reuters.

 

     

 

The suggestion was spurred as the Kurdish militia, the YPG was posed to take
control of Azaz. Turkey's state news agency Anadolu Agency paraphrased Prime
Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as stating the YPG's offensive at Azaz was part of
Kurdish "attempts . to destroy the moderate opposition in Syria and close
the corridor between Aleppo and Turkey."

 

The so called "moderate" opposition that currently occupy Azaz include the
Al Nusra Front - Al Qaida's Syrian affiliate, financed and armed by Turkey
and Saudi Arabia. Nusra has managed the town under a power sharing deal with
the Western backed Free Syrian Army, along with a handful of small Islamist
groups.

 

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On Monday, Davutoglu said, "We will not allow the fall of Azaz."

 

"This must be clear to all in the world," he said.

 

Days earlier, Turkey began pounding YPG sites across northern Syria.

 

Turkey opposes the YPG's ambitions to create an independent Kurdish state in
northern Syria. Across the border, another Kurdish militia, the PKK, waged a
decades long insurgency against the Turkish state. 

 

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