Erdogan’s Terrorist Capture Jarablus without fighting, in other words Turkis Backed -Terrorists just changed their Uniform

Thursday, 25 August 2016

Erdogan’s Terrorist Capture Jarablus without fighting, in other words Turkis Backed -Terrorists just changed their Uniform

ED Note : On this day Aug 24th of 1516 Sultan Selim I defeated the Mamlūks in the Battle of Marj Dābiq (North of Aleppo) and occupied the whole of Syria that year and Egypt the next. Although parts of Syria enjoyed some local autonomy, the area as a whole remained for 400 years an integral section of the Ottoman Empire.

It was divided into provinces, each under a governor: Damascus, Aleppo, and later Tripoli and Ṣaydā, or Sidon, of which the administrative centre was later moved to Acre.

After 500 years Erdogan is dreaming to do the same forgetting that Syria that today’s Syria is ruled by a Syrian Lion.

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Turkish-backed rebels capture Jarablus without fighting

By Izat Charkatli –

24/08/2016

Following the capture of three villages west of the key town of Jarablus, Turkish-backed rebels advanced on the last ISIS-held border crossing with the support of Turkish artillery, coalition airstrikes, and Turkish Special Forces.

Notably, the city was captured by the Islamist rebels with no firefights reported. Earlier reports suggesting Islamic State militants abandoned the city several weeks ago are now of confirmed merit as intelligence increasingly suggests a massive IS withdrawal in northern Syria in favor of creating a new line of defense around Al-Bab, ISIS’s current administrative capital in Aleppo.

It is clear that the huge grouping of rebels along the Turkish border aims at seizing a corridor that stretches from Jarablus to Azaz thereby creating a buffer zone between Turkey, ISIS, and the YPG whom it alleges to contain elements of the PKK terror group.

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Turkish Tanks Roll into Jarablus, Syria Denounces Flagrant Violation of Sovereignty

Local Editor

A dozen Turkish tanks rolled across the Syrian border as part of a military operation backed by jets and US-led coalition warplanes after heavy Turkish shelling of an area held by Daesh [Arabic acronym for “ISIS” / “ISIL”].

Military sources told Turkish media 70 targets in the Jarablus area had been destroyed by artillery and rocket strikes, and 12 by air strikes.

Turkish Special Forces entered Syria earlier as part of the offensive.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the operation was aimed against both Daesh and Kurdish fighters.

Turkey shelled Syrian Kurdish forces in the region this week, determined not to let them fill the vacuum if Daesh leaves.

The concern in Ankara is that the Kurds could create an autonomous area close to the border which might foster Kurdish separatism within Turkey itself.

The tanks were followed by pick-up trucks believed to be carrying Turkish-backed Syrian militants from the so-called “Free Syrian Army”.

“At 04:00 [01:00 GMT] our forces began an operation against the Daesh and PYD [Kurdish Democratic Union Party] terror groups,” President Erdogan said in a speech in Ankara.

The offensive is aimed at “putting an end” to problems on the border, he said.

The Turkish town of Karkamis – just across the border from Jarablus – was evacuated as a precaution following earlier Daesh mortar attacks.

Turkey has vowed to “completely cleanse” Daesh from its border region, blaming the group for a bomb attack on a wedding that killed at least 54 people in Gaziantep on Saturday.

A source at the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates denounced this military intervention by Turkey on Syrian territory.

“The Syrian Arab Republic reaffirms that the fight against terrorism on Syrian soil by any party must be conducted in coordination with the Syrian government and the Syrian Arab army, which has been engaged in these battles for more than five years,” he was quoted by SANA as saying.

He went on to say that the Syrian government

“condemns this violation of sovereignty and stresses that the fight against terrorism is not in the expulsion of Daesh and replacing them with other terrorist organizations backed by Turkey.”

The same source pointed out that

“What is happening in Jarablos now is not a fight against terrorism as claimed by Turkey, but a replacement of a terrorist by another.”

Accordingly, “Syria demands an end to this aggression and calls upon the United Nations for the implementation of related resolutions, in particular, respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the ministry source said.

The source demanded that

“Turkey and the US-led coalition respect international resolutions, particularly those related to the closure of the border and the eradication of terrorism.”

In another development, US Vice-President Joe Biden arrived in Turkey on Wednesday in the highest-ranking visit by a Western official since the failed coup on 15 July.

This is Turkey’s first known ground incursion into Syria since a brief operation to relocate the tomb of Suleyman Shah, a revered Ottoman figure, in February of last year.

The air strikes are Turkey’s first inside Syria since the downing of a Russian jet in November. Moscow and Ankara only mended ties in June after punitive Russian sanctions.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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