‘Syrian forces to attend YPG’ in fight in opposition to Turkey

The Kurdish YPG warring parties claim they’ve reached a deal to allow Syrian executive troops to enter Afrin in the northwestern piece of the border city.

Nuri Mahmoud, a spokesman for the Individuals’s Protection Devices (YPG), urged Al Jazeera on Monday that they are calling on the Syrian executive forces « to take a united Syria », in a style that also can indicate regime forces might well perhaps straight confront Turkish troops in the plight.

Turkey and Free Syrian Military (FSA) – an Ankara-backed armed Syrian opposition neighborhood – last month launched an air and ground operation into Afrin to push the US-backed YPG warring parties out to delight in a buffer zone on its southern border.

Ankara considers YPG, which controls Afrin, a « terrorist » organisation.

« Syrian troopers haven’t yet arrived. We are calling on the Syrian navy to guard Afrin, on story of we would take care of to take a unified Syria, » Mahmoud urged Al Jazeera.

« We are asserting this for the rationale that international neighborhood continues to accommodate the Syrian management as sovereign and we name on this authority to guard its territory. »

He added that the Syrian executive forces are expected to intention within two days.

No Turkish response yet

Turkish authorities contacted by Al Jazeera shunned making speedy comments on the Kurdish side’s claims, asserting that Turkey considers the Kurdish Democratic Union Celebration (PYD), vigorous in Syria, and its armed cruise YPG, to be « terrorist groups » with ties to the banned Kurdistan Employees’ Celebration (PKK).

The PKK has waged a decades-lengthy armed fight in opposition to the Turkish mumble that has killed tens of thousands of other folks.

The PYD/YPG has reach to manipulate enormous swaths of northern Syria, along side Afrin, at some point soon of the Syrian warfare because it led the US-backed umbrella organisation Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight in opposition to the Islamic Enlighten of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) neighborhood.

The US make stronger for SDF has infuriated Turkey and created the ongoing diplomatic disaster between the 2 NATO allies.

The most modern style highlights the complicated battlefield of northern Syria, which hosts a excessive option of actors, along side the PYD/YPG, the Syrian executive, revolt factions, Turkey, the US and Russia.