Turkey’s Erdogan rejects French offer of talks with SDF

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rejected a French offer to mediate between Turkey and Kurdish opponents in Syria blacklisted by Ankara.

His feedback on Friday got here a day after French President Emmanuel Macron hosted a delegation of Kurdish opponents in Paris and supplied to mediate between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) – an umbrella neighborhood of opponents dominated by the Kurdish Other folk’s Safety Devices (YPG) – and the Turkish authorities.

« Who’re you to mediate between Turkey and a pains neighborhood? » Erdogan acknowledged at a gathering of the ruling Justice and Building (AK) Party within the capital, Ankara.

« Other folk that host at the very best level the contributors of a terrorist organisation, which has been freely accomplishing its activities of their nations, ought to endure in mind that that is nothing however an expression of hostility in opposition to Turkey, » he acknowledged.

Turkey considers the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), lively in Syria, and its armed hover YPG to be « terrorist groups » with ties to the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has waged a bloody armed riot for a protracted time.

France would no longer own the righteous to bitch regarding the actions of any armed neighborhood on its soil after meeting with the representatives of the PYD and the YPG, the Turkish chief acknowledged.

« Other folk that safe into mattress with terrorists and even welcome them at their palaces will in due direction look the error they’ve made.

« We hope they’re going to no longer dare to mosey attempting our relief when France is crammed with terrorists fleeing from Syria and Iraq after being inspired by French policies, » Erdogan added.

‘Fear hall’

The YPG has been Washington’s main ally in opposition to the Islamic Say of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, generally is known as ISIS) neighborhood in Syria, in a partnership that has infuriated Turkey.

Al Jazeera’s Sinem Koseoglu, reporting from Istanbul, acknowledged Ankara « would no longer look everything look-to-look with global coalition contributors » by methodology of the fight in opposition to ISIL in Syria.

« Especially cooperating with SDF is one thing serious, a taboo for Turkey, » she acknowledged.

Koseoglu added that Turkish officials look such mediation efforts « as an strive to legitimise PKK and YPG below the identify of SDF by methodology of fighting in opposition to ISIL ».

Erdogan’s feedback on Friday got here less than two weeks after Turkish forces and the Free Syrian Military rebels drove YPG opponents from Afrin city in northern Syria.

Additionally at the AK Party meeting, Erdogan acknowledged Turkey had begun preparations to definite substances of northern Syria from « militants », adding it would possibly also construct incursions into northwestern Iraq.

He acknowledged Ankara would develop its armed forces operations to Ayn al-Arab, Tal Abyad, Rasulayn and Hasaka, a stretch of northern Syria below Kurdish preserve watch over, which has been described as a « pains hall ».

Erdogan added that Turkish forces would possibly even enter Iraq’s Sinjar province « all of a unexpected » and « address the terrorists there. »