Correspondent in Istanbul
The countdown begins.
Announced last month by President Erdogan, the Turkish military operation in northern Syria seems imminent.
“The forces of the Free Syrian Army (Syrian auxiliaries to the Turkish army) are on a war footing.
The mobilization is flagrant”
, says via WhatsApp a resident of Azaz, a Syrian town on the edge of Turkey.
His claims confirm the headlines in the national press.
“The units of the Turkish army positioned on the Turkish-Syrian border are ready and are only waiting for the order to intervene to take action”
, can we read on the front page of the daily
Hürriyet
.
This new incursion aimed, according to the Turkish reis, to
“cleanse the region of the presence of terrorists”
(reference to Kurdish fighters) is however controversial.
In recent weeks, the United States has multiplied warnings against the risk of
“regional destabilization”
by attacking these same forces long…
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