Turkiye says Kurdish-led armed teams in Syria will likely be ‘eradicated’ – INA NEWS

Turkiye’s overseas minister has stated that it’s “solely a matter of time” earlier than Kurdish-led armed teams in Syria will likely be worn out, and that Ankara wouldn’t conform to any state of affairs permitting the armed group YPG to take care of a presence there after the autumn of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Turkiye sees the Folks’s Safety Items (YPG) – the primary part of the United States-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) – as a “terrorist” group linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Employees’ Get together (PKK).

“Circumstances in Syria have modified. We consider it’s solely a matter of time earlier than PKK/YPG is eradicated,” Overseas Minister Hakan Fidan advised a information convention within the capital Ankara on Monday.

Fidan warned towards any Western assist for Kurdish-led teams in Syria.

“In case you [the West] have completely different goals within the area, if you wish to serve one other coverage through the use of Daesh as an excuse to embolden the PKK, then there is no such thing as a means for that, both,” he stated, utilizing an Arabic title for the ISIL (also called ISIS) group.

Turkiye has lengthy been rankled by US assist for the Kurdish-led SDF in northern Syria.

However Washington has lengthy seen the SDF, which spearheaded the battle towards ISIL in 2019 and controls jails and camps by which the group’s fighters are held, as essential to stopping a resurgence of the group.

New Syrian chief Ahmed al-Sharaa, whose Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group has lengthy had ties with Turkiye, advised Al Arabiya TV on Sunday that the Kurdish-led forces must be built-in into the nationwide military.

Fidan’s feedback got here after he met Jordanian Overseas Minister Ayman Safadi, with whom he mentioned the ISIL menace in Syria within the wake of the toppling of al-Assad by HTS-led rebels.

Observers worry area could possibly be left for ISIL fighters to regather energy after the overthrow of al-Assad.

The group has managed to outlive in each Iraq and Syria regardless of the destruction of its so-called caliphate that lasted from 2014 to 2019.

“We mentioned what we will do collectively towards the specter of Daesh in Syria and the area,” Fidan stated.

“[ISIL] is a poison for Muslim societies. After all, utilizing our faith to brutally kill folks … [and] create chaos will not be one thing we’ll stay silent about,” he added.  “It is extremely essential that [ISIL] doesn’t rise once more.”

Fidan’s feedback got here a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that Syria’s new rulers had been decided to root out the YPG.

“With the revolution in Syria … the hopes of the separatist terrorist organisation hit a wall,” Erdogan stated in feedback addressed to his celebration on Sunday.

“The brand new administration in Syria is displaying an especially decided stance in preserving the nation’s territorial integrity and unitary construction,” he stated.

“The tip of the terrorist organisation is close to. There isn’t a choice left apart from to give up their weapons, abandon terrorism, and dissolve the organisation. They are going to face Turkiye’s iron fist.”