Posted on 12/10/2018 12:08:03 PM PST by Texas Fossil
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Nouri Mahmoud, a spokesperson for the People’s Protection Units (YPG), has accused Turkey of sending sleeper cells to areas held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
In an interview with Kurdistan24 last week, Mahmoud said Turkey directly supports all “jihadi groups.”
The spokesperson was referring to when the so-called Islamic State (IS) controlled Jarabulus and Tal Abyad, “when the borders were open and oil deals ongoing.”
However, after the SDF controlled areas from IS in Tal Abyad, Manbij, Raqqa, and now also Deir al-Zor, Turkey, “through its intelligence, started to send infiltrators to Syria,” he added.
“When we talk about some small groups or cells that are active in Raqqa or Deir al-Zor, they are taking their instruction from Turkish MIT [intelligence] and AKP [the ruling Justice and Development Party] leaders,” Mahmoud said.
“Turkey, with its capacity, wants to support these groups and even support the area of Hajin against us.”
SDF forces are currently battling extremists in the last IS-held pocket in Hajin.
In July, security forces arrested four alleged members of the Turkish-backed Qiyam Movement. And in September, alleged Turkish-backed sleeper cells were arrested in Kobani’s southwestern town of Sheikhlar.
“Sunnis and Kurds all have [an] agreement to coexist, and that is why Erdogan sends these groups to create conflict,” the YPG spokesperson stated. “Up to now, we have never seen any foreign IS fighter captured without a Turkish stamp [on their passport].”
Turkish-backed rebel forces and the Turkish army, meanwhile, have taken over vast tracts of territory in northern Syria since August 2016 when it launched Operation Euphrates Shield in northern Aleppo. There has been a Turkish military presence in Idlib since October 2017,and in March, Turkey took over Afrin.
According to Mahmoud, Turkey wants to reclaim “Ottoman lands” by controlling territory in northern Syria where its army is directly involved.
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Nouri Mahmoud: Up to now, we have never seen any foreign IS fighter captured without a Turkish stamp [on their passport].
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By their practices they reveal their truth
Like Erdogans Criminals torture people in Efrîn they do the same in Idlib. They raided an olive mill in Maglia village & when the owner Marwan resisted they kidnapped him & demanded his family a ransom of $250K. Sent vids of them torturing him, cutting off his fingers & ears
Turkey wants to ANNEX Syria’s northern territories back into a resurgent Ottoman Empire.
..... and effectively ruling out the establishment of the Kurdish nation who have been without a country from since forever.
You are totally correct. Erdogan has made it clear many times. And he openly stated it when he invaded Efrin.
Said he was returning the land to it’s rightful owner’s. (Turks)
His Neo Ottoman wet dream? Conquer the entire Middle East. He thinks he is chosen to be Sultan.
Turkey has a raging tumenscence for the Kurds. They have long wished they could work up an Armenian #6 on ‘em.
Turkey’s dictator has declared war on anything that criticizes him. It is getting to be a pretty large club.
If they were to have a serious financial problem, this could really escalate. Turks have the largest number of modern airplanes and tanks in the Middle East.
They have also purged a fairly large portion of their military.
Turkey, like Iran, wants to take over Syria (and more).
the north is important but its far from the whole story
I think Erdogan fancies himself the new Caliph of all of Islam.
If you going to have a delusion you may as well have a grand one.
Yes he thinks he should be Sultan.
Yes. I agree.
but the North of Syria is the most productive farming region. And because of distance from Damascus, the people had to learn to be more self sufficient to survive. Life under ISIS was a horror for them, when freed they put aside many of the cultural conflicts and all cooperated to break free.
They purged the trained fighter pilots, a plane without one of those is a target.
Yes that is true.
And in conflict with force that have modern aircraft and experienced pilots, it will show.
To bomb forces on the ground with no air support is totally different. (like Efrin)
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