Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatens another invasion of Northern Syria. "If the terrorist areas are not cleaned up as promised, we will take matters into our own hands," the regime leader said.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has threatened another invasion of Northern Syria. "If the terrorist areas are not cleaned up as promised, we will take matters into our own hands," said Erdoğan on Saturday during a live broadcast for the opening of the recently constructed Reyhanlı dam in the southern Turkish province of Hatay. "We will never allow a human tragedy in Idlib," the AKP leader vowed.
Those who ignore "terrorist organizations" cannot divert Turkey from its path and goals for 2023, said Erdoğan. Just as in the Balkans, the South Caucasus and the Mediterranean, Turkey will "continue to be active" on its national borders until stability is achieved, he said and added: “Turkey is in the middle of a crisis region and the province of Hatay is most affected by the conditions in Syria.”
An attack by Turkey on Idlib is rather unlikely; rather, everything points to another war of aggression against the autonomous regions in northern, northwestern and northeastern Syria. Opposite the city of Dirbêsiyê, trenches are already being dug and fortifications are being built. Troop movements are also taking place in the regions already occupied by Turkey and its jihadist allies. Apparently Ankara is just waiting for a favorable moment to begin the next invasion against the liberated areas of northeastern Syria. It is quite possible that the recent trial of strength in Idlib be seen as part of the negotiations taking place between Ankara and Moscow on the fate of northeastern Syria. Even the proxy war in the South Caucasus republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) between Azerbaijan and Armenia could ultimately serve Erdoğan only as a bargaining chip to get the green light for the occupation of further areas of Syria.
KDP also builds new military facilities
In a time of new occupation ambitions and continued attacks by the Turkish state on Bashur and Rojava (Southern and Western Kurdistan), the Southern Kurdistan’s ruling party KDP is also building new military installations and observation posts on the border to Northeast Syria. The construction work, which has continued for a month now, is taking place in the Rojava-Bakur border triangle and extends to Shengal (Sinjar) in the south. Trenches are being dug in some areas.
