Why Turkey in Syria displeases the US and Russia

14 October 20213 years ago babelfish

Turkey destroyed some positions in Syria of the Democratic Forces, considered a terrorist group. Giuseppe Gagliano's analysis

On 13 October, the Turkish army launched several operations against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), located in northern Syria. Specifically in the Misherfah, Jabal and Ain Issa areas, in the northern outskirts of Raqqa, located in the south of Afrin and in the north of Tal Rifaat, in the northern outskirts of Aleppo, in northwestern Syria, as well as other locations in the northeast Syrian, near Hasakah.

According to reports, it appears that some positions of the Syrian Democratic Forces have been destroyed. In this regard, we must not forget that the Syrian democratic forces – together with the Kurdish People's Protection Unit, which are the real armed arm of the Syrian army – are considered by Ankara to be a terrorist group, that is, it is considered the Syrian branch of the Party. of Kurdistan Workers (PKK).

Although the PKK is considered the most dangerous terrorist organization by Turkey, it is necessary to emphasize that the Kurds were supported by the United States against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, supported by Russia and Iran, although in 2019 the then president Donald Trump withdrew most of the US forces from Syria to allow a Turkish offensive against the Kurds.

In spite of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the US has given a clear mandate to the Kurds, and that is what to destroy the Islamic state and work to build infrastructure in the northeast of Syria.

While there is no doubt that Turkey in Syria is pursuing a policy that is certainly consistent with its political and military needs, at the same time its political choices are in open contradiction with those of its two most important allies: namely Russia. and the United States.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/turchia-siria-stati-uniti-russia/ on Thu, 14 Oct 2021 06:38:01 +0000.