MESOP FOCUS : Turkey should go for intervention into Syria, US backs PYD: Syria opposition PM

The Prime Minister of Syrian opposition coalition stated Turkey should intervene into Syria to mar any efforts by Kurds to establish an independent state in the north of Syria and blamed the U.S. for putting the opposition coalition in a very tough situation.

Ahmad Toemeh stated the Syrian peo-Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) is seeking to establish an independent Kurdish state in the north of Syria, adding that the coalition has repeatedly asked Ankara to intervene into its southern neighbor and make a safe zone to ban any PYD effort to create an independent Kurdish state, Time Turk reported. According to Toemeh the U.S. is withdrawing its supports to the opposition coalition in favor of the PYD, claiming that Washington is trying to replace the coalition by the Kurdish party that is a new alternative to the U.S. in Syria.

He went on to say that the U.S. asked the Free Syria Army, armed branch of the coalition, to intervene into Syria war and fight against the militants of the Islamic State, but the FSA does not want just to fight the IS and the U.S. has, therefore, put pressure on the opposition coalition and is seeking for an alternative to the coalition and that alternative is the PYD.He added that the PYD and the U.S. are cooperating closely, claiming that the U.S. jets first bomb regions and then the PYD forces advance into those regions. He further claimed that the PYD is to cut the connection of Syria Arab regions with Turkey, warning that the coalition does not accept the situation. He ultimately added that the FSA is fighting against the IS for now but “we know how to fight against the PYD” after IS defeat.