Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The armed forces of Turkey and Syria will conduct a large-scale military operation against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) if the West makes new demands. This was written on January 8 by the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.
"Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that if the PKK does not lay down its arms, if it continues to insist on another administration in Syria, and if Western countries make demands in this direction, then a large-scale military operation together with the Syrian state will be inevitable," the publication writes.
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It is not specified what demands the West is talking about. It is also noted that Turkey did not make efforts in Syria so that “the PKK could continue to exist.”
The publication added that Ankara is currently implementing Plan A, but “Plan B is also on the table.”
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on January 6, the Hürriyet newspaper, citing sources, reported that the new Syrian authorities, during negotiations with the PKK leadership, demanded that they lay down their arms. It was noted that the Kurdish representatives demanded that in exchange for the surrender of their arms, they be given a division or army corps in the Syrian army being created and that the oil fields in the north of the country, controlled jointly with the United States, be equally divided.
On December 25, Erdogan said the PKK had no choice but to lay down its arms, vowing otherwise to “bury the Kurdish fighters along with their weapons.”
The conflict between Turkey and the PKK began in 1984. Ankara considers the group a threat to national security, regularly conducting raids against its supporters in the country and operations in northern Iraq and Syria.
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