Facing repeated threats by the Turkish government to invade the Afrin District in Northern Syria, the Kurdish YPG’s political wing, the PYD, has issued a statement urging the UN to take immediate action to prevent the attack.
The PYD warned that Afrin would not face the invasion alone, and that all of northern and eastern Syria would stand with them in resisting Turkey. They suggested that the UN declare all Syrian Kurdish territory as a “safe zone” to exempt them from attacks.
That’s highly unlikely, as the safe zones were negotiated largely by Russia, Turkey, and Iran. Turkey would clearly never allow a Kurdish safe zone, and insisting the YPG are terrorists, wouldn’t respect such a zone as applying to them even if it was established, as similarly ISIS and al-Qaeda safe zones haven’t been.
Turkey has repeatedly threatened such attacks against Afrin, a Kurdish region not linked to the rest of their territory, and President Erdogan has suggested Turkey would seek to run the YPG out of all border regions, which is materially all of Syrian Kurdistan.
Why would Turkey want to attack and infringe on a sovereign nations territory to prevent them from forming there own autonomous states in a country that already has a name called Syria? It’s a no win all the way around if Turkey attacks the Kurds they’ll be seen as invading Syrias sovereignty and they’ll be attacking an American allies presence and I just don’t see the point. Wait I do because Turkey was buying stolen oil from ISIS and was allowing fighters and military hardware to flow through it’s borders because he wanted his Shiite rival Assad disposed of so he wasn’t successful now he needs a distraction. Sound familiar it should because it’s exactly what happened in Ukraine and the Russians distraction was going to Syria because it had to ferment a sense of nationalism using it’s military adventurism to keep it’s citizens from blaming there government for there weak currency and all the European goodies it’s citizens enjoyed. Nothing will make a country sacrifice and rally behind there nation like a war and in Russia it worked and I guess Turkey has to do the same thing.