A sharp exchange took place between the foreign ministers of the two countries, during a press conference, on Friday night - Saturday, after their talks in Ankara, due to the warning of the German Foreign Minister, Annalina Birbock, against Turkey launching the attack, saying that “the new conflict will only lead to more suffering for the population.” ...and instability will benefit the terrorist organization (ISIS)." Berbuk considered that "Turkey has the right to defend itself, but it must (only attack criminals)."
In turn, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called on Germany to take to the battlefield if it wanted to combat the terrorist organization ISIS, saying that Turkey was fighting all terrorist organizations, such as ISIS, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, and "unity units". The Kurdish People’s Protection Units, which he said constitutes the Syrian arm of the PKK, and poses a threat to Turkey, and its attacks have killed 25 Turkish soldiers during the past two years, and a large number of Syrian and Turkish civilians.
Çavuşoğlu considered that Turkey is not participating in a military clash or conflict inside Syria, but rather is launching counter-terrorism operations, and is waiting for its allies to support its legitimate struggle stemming from international law, "and not to be satisfied with just words, by declaring that they understand its security concerns and fears."
And he added, "ISIS has absolutely nothing to do with this matter... If you want to combat (ISIS), then you must take to the field like us... The same is true for foreign terrorists," noting that "the Kurdistan Workers' Party" and " The Kurdish units are not fighting ISIS, as he put it.
Meanwhile, the official Turkish Anadolu Agency said yesterday (Saturday) that Turkish intelligence managed to eliminate the terrorist Nusrat Tebesh, one of the accused of carrying out a double terrorist attack that took place in Istanbul in 2008, which led to the death and injury of dozens. The sources added that the Turkish intelligence spotted the terrorist Tebesh in a house in the Hasaka governorate, in northeastern Syria, 60 km from the Turkish border, and was able to eliminate him in a special operation carried out at his residence.
Tebesh had joined the PKK in the state of Siirt, southeastern Turkey, in 1995, and took positions in its ranks. He was one of those responsible for a bombing in the Gungoran region of the European side of Istanbul in 2008, which killed 18 people, including 5 children, and 154 others were wounded. After carrying out the attack, he fled to northern Iraq, and later moved to northern Syria.
Tebes was included on the wanted list, after he was sentenced to 18 hard life sentences totaling 1,285 years, in the Istanbul bombing case, in addition to carrying out operations on behalf of the Kurdistan Workers Party, which is classified as a terrorist organization in Turkey, Europe and the United States.
In a related matter, since its announcement of the military operation targeting Manbij and Tal Rifaat, Turkey and the Syrian factions loyal to it have escalated their attacks on the positions of the SDF and the Syrian regime in the north and east together, and also sent huge military reinforcements to the seam axes in Aleppo, with continuous assurances. That the process may be carried out at any time.
In this context, the Turkish forces and their loyal factions, located in the countryside of Ras al-Ain, intensively bombarded with rocket and artillery shells areas in villages under the control of the SDF and the regime forces in the countryside of Tal Tamr and Abu Rasin, northwest of Hasaka, which led to the injury of 8 civilians. Including a girl and two women.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the intense shelling came, after special forces in the Tal Tamr Military Council of the SDF carried out an infiltration operation and targeting of the movements and gathering of the factions in the Al-Alia front near the Aleppo-Latakia International Road (M4), west of Tal Pass, which led to the killing of one of the faction members and the injury of others to varying degrees.
At the same time, clashes took place between the Turkish-backed factions and the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, at dawn yesterday (Saturday), in which heavy weapons were used, on the seam axes in the city of Tadef in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.
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