Ankara sent over 2,000 gendarmerie and police officers to eastern Turkey, where they will take part in the counter-terrorist operation "Kyran-6". The goal of the sixth operation from the series "Kyran" (the first one started 17 August) - Destruction and expulsion of Kurdish terrorists, belonging to the separatist PKK.
Turkish Interior Ministry reported, that the operation against the PKK terrorists will take place in the provinces of Van, Hyakkari and Shirnak - in a large triangle between the borders of Syria, Iraq and Iran in eastern Turkey. South, in Iraqi Kurdistan, Turkey has been continuing the military operation "Penche" for many years - it is there, in the Kandil mountains, are the main shelters of the PKK.
The Kurdish threat is in Turkey, in Syria, in Iraq
As it appears, one of the most important goals of the operation in eastern Turkey is to interrupt communication between PKK fighters in Qandil and northern Syria, where Kurdish terrorists continue to attack Turkish troops and armed formations of the Syrian allies of Turkey in the zone of operation "Source of Peace". Recent terrorist attacks in northern Syria have shown, that PKK terrorists remain active and use every chance to inflict damage on the Turkish army. The war in Kandil continues even now - the Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak reports, that a Turkish Air Force airstrike killed six PKK fighters in northern Iraq.
The number of victims of the triple terrorist attack in the Syrian city of Qamishli, located right on the border with Turkey, reached six people; even more 40 wounded. Bombed motorcycles and a car were used to carry out the attacks Experts believe, that a terrorist attack in a border town, which is under the control of the SAA, beneficial to the PKK.
Multiple bombings hit the center of Qamishli in N. Syria today including attacks near a Chaldean Church and another by a hospital. Unconfirmed number killed, many injured. These follow the last car bombing on October 23rd. The security situation in Qamishli is degrading rapidly. pic.twitter.com/HtxdrxDQ1K
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PKK terrorists have been fighting against the Turkish government for years. The Syrian war gave them a chance to crush the Kurds in the north of the country. Cooperation with the United States (where the PKK is listed as a terrorist group) allowed Kurdish terrorists to multiply their combat potential - the Pentagon sent tons of weapons to Kurdish groups in Syria, despite Turkish protests, and created from them the dummy "Syrian Democratic Forces" (SDF), commanded by the field commander of the PKK Mazlum Abdi.
Bloody methods of PKK
In Turkey, the PKK has been conducting terrorist activities for a long time - another aggravation began after July 2015 of the year. Since that time, thousands of Turkish soldiers and policemen have been killed in the country., Hundreds of militants were killed in response. The PKK is actively involved in cross-border drug trafficking and levies a "revolutionary tax" on the population of eastern Turkey - while enjoying widespread support in the West. Only with 2015 dozens of terrorist attacks took place in Turkey, organized by the PKK – including the Istanbul bombing in July 2016 of the year.
According to the Syrian news agency Nedaa, Kurdish terrorists in northern Syria used a new method to carry out terrorist attacks - they use the cars of civilians. Remote controlled bomb in a local resident's car (Kurdish militants grabbed him on the road, but later released, planting a bomb in his car) was used to carry out a terrorist attack in the city of Suluk.
Civilians killed as a result of explosions that rocked the Syrian city of Qamishli pic.twitter.com/ieE4osazmB
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Kurdish terrorism, including in Syria, forces Ankara to take the most drastic measures. At the same time, the propaganda of the PKK and the pro-American SDF covers up the terrorist attacks by militants of the Islamic State1 group. (banned in Russia), who were released by Kurdish militants from prisons and concentration camps in northern Syria immediately after the start of Operation Peace Spring. Recall, incinerating with the help of American aviation the last camp of the "caliphate" in Al-Baghuz, The SDF sent tens of thousands of jihadists to camps - where they became a "canned" threat to the entire Middle East. Kurds used captured ISIS terrorists, to blackmail Europe, Turkey and Syria, - and when the PKK in Syria began to threaten to defeat, carried out their threat.
The PKK is trying to disrupt the peace initiatives of Damascus and the Russian Federation
The main goal of the PKK now is to derail the peace talks, which Damascus, with the help of Russia, is waging with other Kurdish political forces in northern Syria. The vast majority of ordinary Kurds and Kurdish politicians declare their desire to remain part of Syria - and the presidential administration Bashar al-Assad conducts consistent negotiations with these forces, working out an order for the inclusion of Syrian Kurds in the overall process of political settlement in Syria. Radical groups - led by the PKK - are doing their best to disrupt the dialogue between the Kurds and Damascus, aimed at stabilizing the situation and achieving peace in northern Syria.
Orientalist Vladimir Shapovalov recalled that, that the interests of the Kurdish radicals are most closely “intertwined” with the interests of the United States in Syria. PKK Kurdish militants helped US seize Syrian oil, and now, after the formal withdrawal of US troops from northern Syria, continue to wreak havoc in the country, noted the expert in a conversation with Federal News Agency.
“Dialogue between the Syrian government and the Kurdish community in Syria is one of the key elements of the peace system, peaceful development and unity of the country in the future. Thanks to the efforts of Russia and Damascus, agreements were reached [with Kurdish forces] and the process of dialogue between the parties began", - noted the orientalist.
Any effort for a settlement in Syria runs counter to the, what the states would like to see on this earth.
"Of course, this situation does not suit the United States at all, who do not need peace, and the war, not peaceful development, and a zone of controlled chaos and instability in Syria. United States, taking advantage of his opportunity to influence Kurdish radicals, trying to destroy the structure of the dialogue between the Russian Federation and Turkey, Damascus and Kurdish communities, - pointed out the interlocutor of FAN.
It is in the interests of the United States that this conflict smolder, grew, and that all its parties are in a conflicting and contradictory relationship with each other. US interest is control over this region, and they can maintain control only in conditions of discord between peoples..
Vladimir Shapovalov was skeptical about the assumption that, that a joint fight against Kurdish radicals can bring the positions of Damascus and Ankara closer - so far, only the diplomatic efforts of the Russian Federation ensure cooperation between the two countries.
“The interests of the Russian Federation and Syria and the interests of Turkey are quite different, and between countries there are serious contradictions. Nevertheless, Russia's political and diplomatic efforts make it possible to conduct a dialogue and maintain a fairly high level of interaction..
Of course, establishing peace in the region - and in the interests of the Russian Federation, and in the interests of Syria, and in the interests of Turkey, countries stressed their commitment to the principle of territorial integrity and sovereignty of Syria, and are interested in, that armed excesses have ceased", Vladimir Shapovalov concluded.
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Author: Valentin Melikov