The Turkish Government announced a wave this Wednesday. “Major” attacks against Kurdish armed groups Iraq and SyriaIn retaliation for a suicide attack by PKK guerrillas in Ankara last Sunday, in which two police officers were injured.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan warned that the attacks would also target the infrastructure, including the energy infrastructure, of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the Kurdish militia that dominates northern Syria.
The Turkish government considers the YPG to be an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Kurdish guerrilla From Turkey.
Fidan said at a press conference in Ankara, “From now on, all infrastructure, superstructures and energy facilities will be the great legitimate target of our security forces, armed forces and secret services.” said.
The Minister said, “I advise third parties to stay away from the facilities and PKK and YPG members.”
Fidan emphasized that Two terrorists who lost their lives in an explosive attack on the Ministry of Internal Affairs last Sunday. AnkaraThey came from Syriawhere they studied.
This Wednesday, the Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed that these people were two PKK members identified as Hasan Oğuz and Özkan Şahin.
Already on Tuesday, the Kurdish agency ANF reported that the first joined the guerrilla in 2013 and the second in 2014.
Moreover, the official Anatolian agency guarantees: The person who organized the attack died in one of the bomb attacks Türkiye It happened in Syria In response to Sunday’s attack.
For Ankara, PKK and YPG, which are at least ideologically close to each other, are nothing more than two branches of the same organization.
But, the European Union And United States of America They consider PKK, not YPG, as terroristsIt receives political and financial support from Washington in its fight against the jihadist Islamic State in Syria.
The Turkish Ministry of Defense reported last night that major airstrikes were carried out against PKK positions in northern Iraq, leading to the “destruction of 16 targets”, but so far there has been no report on operations in Syria.