Cavusoglu: No one can finish Turkish forces in Afrin

The Turkish foreign minister has acknowledged that Syrian forces can no longer finish its navy’s advances in Afrin, based mostly on experiences that the Syrian regime forces will fight alongside Kurdish YPG opponents in the border town.

Talking at a press convention in the Jordanian capital, Amman, Mevlut Cavusoglu acknowledged on Monday that Turkey welcomed the entry of Syrian forces into Afrin if it became once to confront opponents belonging to the Kurdish Other folks’s Protection Devices (YPG).

« If that’s the case, there isn’t any longer any yell. Nonetheless, if they’re coming into [Afrin] to provide protection to YPG/PKK, no one can finish the Turkish navy, » he added, referring to the armed Syrian Kurdish crew YPG, which controls Afrin, and banned Kurdistan Employees’ Occasion (PKK) active in Turkey.

Ankara considers the Kurdish Democratic Union Occasion (PYD), active in Syria, and its armed flee YPG, to be « terrorist groups » with ties to the PKK, which has waged a bloody armed rebellion for decades in southeast Turkey.

The PKK has been designated as a « terrorist » crew by the USA, the European Union and Turkey.

« Now we bag consistently expressed our crimson meat up for Syria’s territorial integrity … We are one of the worldwide locations with the utmost crimson meat up for it, » Cavusoglu acknowledged.

The YPG opponents claimed earlier in the day they’d reached a deal to enable regime troops to enter Afrin in the northwestern fragment of the border town.

Assad forces to aid YPG

Nuri Mahmoud, a spokesman for the YPG, told Al Jazeera earlier on Monday that they’re calling on the Syrian authorities forces « to retain a united Syria », in a model that would mean regime forces might presumably perhaps directly confront Turkish troops in the placement.

Turkey and the Free Syrian Navy (FSA) – an Ankara-backed armed Syrian opposition crew – remaining month launched an air and ground operation into Afrin to push the US-backed YPG opponents out to compose a buffer zone on its southern border.

« Syrian troopers haven’t yet arrived. We are calling on the Syrian navy to provide protection to Afrin, because we might perhaps admire to retain a unified Syria, » Mahmoud told Al Jazeera.

« We are saying this since the realm neighborhood continues to handle the Syrian leadership as sovereign and we name on this authority to provide protection to its territory. »

He added that Syrian authorities forces are expected to come internal two days.

The PYD/YPG has reach to manipulate tidy swaths of northern Syria, including Afrin, for the length of the Syrian battle as it led the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) umbrella organisation in the fight in opposition to the Islamic Order of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, additionally identified as ISIS) crew.

US crimson meat up for the SDF has infuriated Turkey and created the continued diplomatic disaster between the 2 NATO allies.

This most modern model highlights the advanced battlefield of northern Syria, which hosts a excessive vogue of actors, including the PYD/YPG, the Syrian authorities, riot factions, Turkey, the US and Russia.