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2021-09-01 The Grand Turk
US ‘very concerned’ about increased Turkish military activity in Syria, Iraq
The set-up for the interview that can be read at the link:
[Rudaw] Joey Hood, United States acting assistant secretary of state for the Middle East, said the US is "very concerned" about increased military activity in both northern Syria and northern Iraq.

"We are very concerned about military activity in northern Syria, northern Iraq," and reports of civilian casualties, he said in an interview with Rudaw on Monday.

In recent weeks, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
has stepped up its attacks in areas of northeast Syria covered by 2019 ceasefires brokered by Washington and Moscow. Several civilians and Kurdish fighters have been killed. Kurdish leadership have called on Russia to step up in its role as monitor of the ceasefire and end Turkey’s attacks and have expressed disappointment that the global coalition against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group (ISIS) have remained silent.

Ankara believes that Syrian Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are offshoots of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which it has named a terrorist organization. It considers the Syrian Kurdish groups a threat to Turkey’s national security.

Across the border in northern Iraq, Turkey is carrying out months-long operations in northern Duhok province that resulted in several civilian deaths and forced the evacuation of tens of villages. The PKK has its headquarters in the Kurdistan Region's mountains. Turkey has also carried out a massive air raid 200 kilometres deep into Kurdistan Region territory, striking alleged PKK positions in Sulaimani province, and it has carried out Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in the Shingal area, killing six fighters from a local Yazidi force linked with the PKK, and four health workers.

Hood said the US understands "that Turkey needs to take actions in its own national defence against terrorist activity. So we’re calling on all groups to cease their military activities, their terrorist activities so that we can focus on the real enemy, which is ISIS [ISIS]."

He also expressed hope that intro-Kurdish dialogue to mend fences between rival Kurdish political parties in northeast Syria (Rojava) will help to foster greater cooperation and peace, thereby isolating the PKK.

Rojava’s ruling Kurdish National Unity Parties (PYNK) umbrella group have been in on-and-off talks with the opposition Kurdish National Council (ENKS) since late 2019 to reach an agreement over power sharing.
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#1 "We are very concerned about [Turkey]military activity in northern Syria, northern Iraq"

and Libya, and Somalia, and Yemen, and Sudan, and Ethiopia...
Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-01 10:26||   2021-09-01 10:26|| Front Page Top










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