Turkiye says Kurdish-led armed groups in Syria will be ‘eliminated’

FM Hakan Fidan says lone ‘a substance of clip earlier YPG is eliminated’ successful Syria, urges West to cease supporting group.

Turkiye’s overseas curate has said that it is “only a substance of time” earlier Kurdish-led equipped groups successful Syria volition beryllium wiped out, and that Ankara would not hold to immoderate concern allowing the equipped radical YPG to support a beingness determination aft the autumn of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Turkiye sees the People’s Protection Units (YPG) – the main constituent of the United States-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) – arsenic a “terrorist” radical linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

“Conditions successful Syria person changed. We judge it’s lone a substance of clip earlier PKK/YPG is eliminated,” Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told a quality league successful the superior Ankara connected Monday.

Fidan warned against immoderate Western enactment for Kurdish-led groups successful Syria.

“If you [the West] person antithetic aims successful the region, if you privation to service different argumentation by utilizing Daesh arsenic an excuse to embolden the PKK, past determination is nary mode for that, either,” helium said, utilizing an Arabic sanction for the ISIL (also known arsenic ISIS) group.

Turkiye has agelong been rankled by US enactment for the Kurdish-led SDF successful bluish Syria.

But Washington has agelong seen the SDF, which spearheaded the combat against ISIL successful 2019 and controls jails and camps successful which the group’s fighters are held, arsenic important to preventing a resurgence of the group.

New Syrian person Ahmed al-Sharaa, whose Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) radical has agelong had ties with Turkiye, told Al Arabiya TV connected Sunday that the Kurdish-led forces should beryllium integrated into the nationalist army.

Fidan met with Syria’s de facto person Ahmed al-Sharaa successful Syria’s Damascus precocious past period [Reuters]

Fidan’s comments came aft helium met Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, with whom helium discussed the ISIL menace successful Syria successful the aftermath of the toppling of al-Assad by HTS-led rebels.

Observers fearfulness abstraction could beryllium near for ISIL fighters to regather spot aft the overthrow of al-Assad.

The radical has managed to past successful some Iraq and Syria contempt the demolition of its alleged caliphate that lasted from 2014 to 2019.

“We discussed what we tin bash unneurotic against the menace of Daesh successful Syria and the region,” Fidan said.

“[ISIL] is simply a poison for Muslim societies. Of course, utilizing our religion to brutally termination radical … [and] make chaos is not thing we volition stay soundless about,” helium added.  “It is precise important that [ISIL] does not emergence again.”

Fidan’s comments came a time aft Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Syria’s caller rulers were determined to basal retired the YPG.

“With the gyration successful Syria … the hopes of the separatist violent organisation deed a wall,” Erdogan said successful comments addressed to his enactment connected Sunday.

“The caller medication successful Syria is showing an highly determined stance successful preserving the country’s territorial integrity and unitary structure,” helium said.

“The extremity of the violent organisation is near. There is nary enactment near different than to surrender their weapons, wantonness terrorism, and dissolve the organisation. They volition look Turkiye’s robust fist.”