On the night of Tuesday 9 November, Turkish warplanes targeted separatist components of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) within the Syrian metropolis of Qamishli. The drone assault just isn’t the primary of its variety within the metropolis, because it was preceded by related assaults within the metropolis and Ain Al-Arab (Kobani) earlier than it.
The repeated assaults within the metropolis of Qamishli carried robust indications confirming Turkey’s endeavour to broaden the scope of its operations east of the Euphrates, and to maneuver ahead with its army operation by seizing management from the separatist SDF forces on Tal Rifaat, Manbij, Ayn Al-Arab (Kobani), and Malikiyah sooner or later.
Regardless of US help and Russian political and army manoeuvres, Turkish army exercise continued to focus on Kurdish separatists, led by PKK activists in Qamishli. This exercise was not deterred by the American help and the solidarity visits of Bernard-Henri Levy, the Zionist orientalist and French tutorial, to the areas managed by the separatists east of the Euphrates.
The infamous Levy met the chief of the separatist organisation, Mazloum Abdi, on 3 October, and declared his help for the separatists and the separatist Rojava forces, after which he was quoted in a tweet saying the separatist leaders had been “Someplace in #Rojava. On my proper, a legendary basic, Mazlum Abdi Kobane. He’s commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces. And he has the dreadful honour of being Erdogan’s No. 1 enemy”. This go to didn’t anger Turkey or the Syrian regime as a lot because it angered Russia, which it thought-about a direct refusal by the separatist leaders to barter with Moscow and an acceptance of the American and European agenda.
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— Bernard-Henri Lévy (@BHL) October 3, 2021
Turkey was not hindered by the Russian army strikes within the metropolis of Qamishli, after Moscow bolstered its presence on the metropolis’s airport with Su-35 plane on 28 October. This coincided with the Turkish Parliament extending the mandate granted to President Recep Erdogan for 2 extra years to ship troops to Iraq and Syria on 26 October, and Russia wished to remind Turkey of its affect and army presence and the necessity to take note of its pursuits within the metropolis.
Regardless of the army reinforcements and manoeuvres that Russia performed close to Aleppo, Idlib and Qamishli, the Russian place on the Syrian Democratic Forces remained indecisive as a result of desire of the SDF and its separatist factions to cooperate with the US. This indecisiveness opened the door extensive for extra Turkish strikes. In response to its Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov, Russia criticised Washington on Tuesday by saying, “America’ help for separatist tendencies in northeastern Syria might make the Kurdish downside topical not just for Syria however for different nations of the area.”
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Lavrov not solely criticised the US, but in addition warned the separatist Kurds, in a press convention after talks with the Secretary for Relations with States throughout the Holy See’s Secretariat of State, Paul Richard Gallagher, by saying: “I might suggest the Kurds not be lured by our American colleagues who’re searching for to nourish separatist tendencies in jap Syria and make these plans a critical irritator focused in opposition to the pursuits of preserving Syria’s integrity.” He added: “These are harmful video games that will result in a scenario when the Kurdish downside blazes up in your entire area, taking into account that it considerations not solely Syria however different nations as nicely.”
The American exercise east of the Euphrates and the separatist Kurds’ adherence to the American ally on the expense of the Russian ally opened the door for Ankara to proceed with its army operations in opposition to the separatists. The Turkish army stress might escalate into a bigger army operation that ends the separatist presence in Ayn Al-Arab, Ain Issa and its environment within the close to future. This development might weaken the American agenda whereas enhancing the affect of Russia and the Syrian regime east of the Euphrates on the expense of the present alliance between the separatist Kurds and the US. Turkish stress on the separatists serves the pursuits of the Turks, the Arabs, the Syrian regime and Russia on the similar time.
The Turkish raids weakened the Kurdish separatist presence and strengthened the Syrian and Russian presence, after the connection between the Syrian military and SDF forces entered a harmful part that led to an escalation of confrontations between the 2 events over the previous few months. This success was achieved with out clashing with America and its allies. the Turkish air raids are making ready the environment for a decisive Turkish intervention in northern Syria to finish the Russian indecisiveness in direction of the Kurdish separatist undertaking and on the similar time weaken its American financiers and the regional powers behind them hiding behind the veil of confronting Iran and terrorism and defending the unity of Syria and its lands.
This text first appeared in Arabic in Arabi21 on 10 November 2021
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