Turkey wants PKK away from border

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Turkey’s wants to push the Kurdish PKK away from the border and might start a full-scale military operation, Murat Aslan of the SETA foundation says.   #Syria #Turkey

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00:00Turkey has moved a lot of military assets in and around northern Syria. Erdogan has

00:07called on the YPG group to dissolve or face destruction as I mentioned earlier. What exactly

00:14is he preparing for?

00:16Well, the first priority I believe is to have Syrian National Army under the authority of

00:23the Damascus-based government because they are now restructuring their defence forces

00:28as you may know, and just push PKK away from the Turkish borders. And also, Turkey is well

00:36aware of the fragility, especially in Raqqa, Haseken, Deir Ezzor. Why? Because publics

00:41in these cities started uprisings across the streets protesting PKK. If this attempt fails,

00:48I think Turkey will push hard and maybe start military operations. But Foreign Minister

00:54Fidan has proposed a three-phase plan, especially to Syrian Democratic Forces, which is actually

00:59PKK right now, which was to expel the PKK members from the body at the east of Euphrates

01:06Sibyl first, and then transform themselves and clear terrorist cells at the eastern Euphrates

01:13Sibyl.

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