Erdogan threatens to expand Syria offensive

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Erdogan threatens to expand Syria offensive

ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday threatened to expand Turkey?s offensive in Syria against a Kurdish militia despite calls for restraint from its Western allies.
On the seventh day of the operation against the Syrian Kurdish People?s Protection Units (YPG) militia, Erdogan vowed to ?clean up? the Syrian city of Manbij.The United States has raised concerns over the deadly offensive, and analysts say a military confrontation between the two NATO powers is possible since the US has a military presence in Manbij.
Turkey launched operation ?Olive Branch? against the YPG on Saturday, supporting Syrian rebels with ground troops, air strikes and artillery fire.While the YPG is still working closely with Washington against the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in Syria, Ankara views the YPG as a terror organisation allied to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) inside Turkey.
The PKK is blacklisted by Ankara and its Western allies as a terror outfit.Erdogan vowed in a speech in Ankara that Turkey would ?continue our fight until there is no terrorist on our border?, but did not elaborate. He said the operation would last until ?we reach our goals,? adding: ?Afterwards we will, as promised, clean up Manbij of terrorists.? - US ties ?teetering on brink? - Tensions between Ankara and Washington are already high but the offensive added further strain to their relationship. The two sides disagreed about the content of telephone talks between Erdogan and US President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
Washington said Trump had urged Turkey to ?limit its military actions? but a Turkish official said the US statement did ?not accurately reflect the content? of the call.Erdogan criticised Turkey?s allies, including the United States, which he said called for the operation to be ?short? and ?limited? in scope, referring to previous interventions.
?How long has Afghanistan lasted? Nearly 20 years. How long has it lasted in Iraq? Nearly 18 years!? he thundered.Washington has more than 2,000 special forces and support troops inside Syria, mainly east of the Euphrates in an area also controlled by the YPG but separate from Afrin, which is west of the river. According to Anthony Skinner, director of MENA at global risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft, ?direct military conflict? between Turkish and US forces is possible because of Erdogan?s threats to expand the campaign to Manbij.?Turkish-US relations are teetering on the brink of a precipice,? Skinner added.?The current bilateral crisis could, in the worst case, fully eclipse that of the 1970s,? he warned, when Washington imposed an arms embargo on Turkey in 1975 after the Turkish army invaded and occupied the northern third of Cyprus the year before. The European Union has also expressed concern over the Turkish intervention in Syria, which is further complicating the war that has claimed more than 340,000 lives since 2011.



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