Fears to reality: SDF says Turkey used ISIS to invade northern Syria
Despite international warnings to TurkishPresident Recep
Tayyip Erdogan that ISIS operatives may escape from Syrian Democratic Forces
(SDF) prisons, he ordered Turkish forces to launch Operation Peace Spring in
northern Syria on October 9.
International fears of an ISIS revival have turned into
reality, contributing to the elimination of the efforts of the SDF and the international
coalition, both who succeeded in defeating the terrorist organization in the
Battle of Baghouz in March 2019.
Fears turn out to be facts
SDF commander Mazloum Abdi announced that his forces have official
documents proving that the Justice and Development Party (AKP) regime led by
Erdogan depended on ISIS terrorists during Operation Peace Spring.
“Recep Tayyip Erdogan extorts the world through a group of
imprisoned terrorists belonging to ISIS. We have documents confirming Turkey
depended on them in its invasion of northern Syria,” Abdi posted on his Twitter
account on Saturday, November 16, adding, “In order to thwart their plans and
to show the truth to the world, an international tribunal must be held in
northern Syria to identify the atrocities committed by ISIS.”
Demographic change
Ankara is using terrorists from ISIS, which has long been
funded and sponsored by the Turkish state, with the aim of bringing about a
complete demographic change in northern Syria that serves Ankara's interests
and contributes to its plans of expansion at the expense of the Syrian state.
This was confirmed by the SDF spokesman, who tweeted that “Turkey
is planning a demographic change in favor of Turkmen nationalism in northern
Syria, '' the SDF spokesperson said in a tweet via his official Twitter
account. “It is wrong to think that Turkey will accommodate the Arabs in place
of the Kurds in this region. They will abandon everybody to provide housing for
the Chinese-Turkmen Uyghurs.”
October’s Operation Peace Spring was not the first of its
kind for the Turkish regime in northern Syria, where Ankara launched two
previous operations, the first under the name of the Euphrates Shield in 2016
and the second named Olive Branch in 2018, both of which bear the overt
objective of President Erdogan's announcement desiring to remove the SDF and
other terrorist organizations in Turkey from his country's borders.
But this operation is different from its predecessors in
that it comes at a time when ISIS members remain in the jails of the Syrian
Democratic Forces after years of war, which makes implementing it threaten the release
of thousands of ISIS detainees from these prisons, especially in the area of
Qamishli, which has already happened.
The United Nations demanded in an official statement on
November 4 the need to stop the Turkish regime’s proposals that are aimed at
resettling the families of mercenaries and terrorists in northern Syria, under
the pretext of establishing a safe zone for the return of Syrians, according to
the German news agency.
In its statement, the United Nations stressed the need to
form a fact-finding committee to identify the nature of Turkish practices in
northern Syria and to identify the mechanisms of Ankara's support for ISIS
terrorists, who are used to achieve Turkey’s objectives in this region.
Political researcher Abdul Hamid Tawfiq said in press
statements that Erdogan seeks to implement his project aimed at the occupation
of Syrian territory under false pretexts and by using all methods, including
ISIS terrorists sponsored by Ankara for a long time now.
Tawfiq added that Erdogan also has plans in the educational
and cultural dimensions to change the demography of Syria through Turkish
universities such as Gaziantep and the integration of the Turkish language into
the Syrian curriculum, which confirms the falsity of the Turkish president’s
claims about respecting the independence and sovereignty of Damascus.
