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Report: US wary of potential Turkish invasion of Kurdish territory in Syria
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS officials are concerned Turkey may be planning to invade Syrian territory held by Kurdish forces, citing a troop buildup near the border, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Turkey backs Islamist Sunnis that have led the rebel forces that ousted Bashar al-Assad, but views Kurdish groups and the Syrian Democratic Forces, which control northeast Syria, as an extension of the banned PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) that has fought a decades-long insurgency on Turkish soil.
“If Turkey proceeds with its invasion, the consequences will be catastrophic,” one Kurdish official tells The Journal.
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