2024-06-09 08:09:50
Elections within the Kurdish Autonomous Administration in northern Syria should be cancelled.
As Day.Az studies close to TASS, sources within the Turkish Ministry of Protection reported this to the TRT Haber TV channel, commenting on media studies that the elections have been postponed.
“Our president [Реджеп Тайип Эрдоган] and minister [Яшар Гюлер] gave the mandatory warnings. These so-called elections should be fully abolished. The present state of affairs is unacceptable,” the TV channel quotes sources as saying.
Turkish media beforehand reported that the elections, organized by forces related to the Kurdistan Staff’ Social gathering (PKK, designated as terrorist and banned in Turkey), have been postponed from June 11 to August.
Turkey has repeatedly said that it’ll not enable elections to be held in northern Syria, making it clear about the potential for a navy operation in cross-border territory. Ankara additionally criticizes the USA and quite a lot of NATO allies for supporting the PKK and its Syrian offshoot, the Individuals’s Protection Forces (SND). Turkish chief Tayyip Erdogan beforehand introduced plans to finish the creation of a 30-kilometer-deep safety zone in northern Syria to make sure management over a 600-kilometer part of the border with the neighboring nation and decrease terrorist threats emanating from its territory.
The Kurds, who make up 15% of Syria’s inhabitants, introduced the creation of an autonomous administration in 2013. Three years later, the so-called Northern Federal Area was fashioned with three facilities in Qamishli, Kobani and Afrin. Nonetheless, Turkey occupied Afrin in 2018, and in 2019, through the navy operation “Supply of Peace”, it started making a safety zone.
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