Turkey has threatened attacks on major US allies in the war in Syria with LIH – RBC

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US President Barack Obama.

Photo: REUTERS 2015

“Turkey will do what is necessary”, including further military operations in order to prevent the establishment of Syrian Kurds which is supported by the United States, the autonomy of the city of Tel Abyad near the Turkish border. This statement was made on Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reports Reuters.

Turkey is a NATO member, part of the US-led coalition and strikes on the positions of the “Islamic State” (an organization banned in Russia) in Syria. Ankara believes that the application of the Kurds, led by the Syrian Kurdish party “Democratic Union» (PYD) on the autonomy of the city of Tel Abyad poses a threat to Turkish national security.

This week Turkish military aircraft twice struck position Kurdish militia folk defense (YPG), after they challenged Ankara and crossed to the west of the Euphrates River. Earlier, Prime Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu warned the Kurds that if they do, Turkey will attack them.

«It was a warning:” Remember. If you try to do it in a different place, Turkey will not need permission from anyone – we will do what is necessary “, – Erdogan said, hinting that Ankara is ready to challenge Washington, who asked her to avoid strikes on Syrian Kurds and focus on beats by LIH, writes Reuters.

Erdogan blamed the Kurdish “Democratic Union” in the “ethnic cleansing” in the region and said that the West support the Kurdish militias only helped terrorism.

«We are committed to [fight] with anyone who threatens us along the Syrian border, inside or outside it “, – said Erdogan.

The Western allies are now arming the Kurds, he complained. “They [the West] do not even recognize the Kurdish” Democratic Union “terrorist organization. What is this nonsense? The West continues to adhere to the principle: “My suicide – good, your – bad”, – said Erdogan.

The Turkish Armed Forces have resumed in the country 30-year struggle against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which seeks autonomy for Turkey Kurds and has close ties with ethnic brothers in Syria. According to Erdogan, 1 thousand. 400 fighters PKK fought alongside the Kurdish People’s Protection Units in Syria.

The US and Europe as well as Turkey, referred PKK as a terrorist organization, but the Syrian and Iraqi Kurdish factions Washington and Brussels regard as valuable allies in the fight against “Islamic state”, stresses Reuters.

Soldiers of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units in the air support provided by the Western coalition led by the United States, in June this year recaptured LIH city Tell – Abyad in northern Syria near the Turkish border . In October, the leader of the local council declared the city an autonomous entity.