MESOPOTAMIA NEWS ANALYSIS : MANBIJ – KURDISTAN – SYRIA / PKK/PYD
28 Dec 2018 – SOURCES : “It is a solution all regional powers can accept because Turkey doesn’t want U.S. troops in Manbij, while the other players don’t want Turkish troops there,” Sami Nader said in an interview with Al Jazeera.
“Turkey, a NATO member, considers the Syrian Kurds a terrorist group linked to a Kurdish insurgency inside its country. Clashes between the Turkish military and the SDF have intermittently plagued and delayed the final operations against ISIS,” Bianca Britton and Gul Tuysuz write for CNN.
“[The move raises] the possibility of a confrontation between Syria and Turkey, which wants to enlarge its sphere of influence in northern Syria to prevent Kurdish autonomy in any form and provide a haven to which Syrian refugees could go,” writes CFR’s Steven A. Cook.
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