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  • La Turquie, prête à une intervention militaire, à Alep ?
    http://french.irib.ir/info/moyen-orient/item/374283-la-turquie-s’apprête-à-une-intervention-militaire-dans-le-nord-de

    La Turquie s’apprête à une intervention militaire, dans le Nord de la Syrie, a écrit, un quotidien saoudien. Les forces kurdes ont rejoint les forces de l’armée syrienne, pour lutter contre Daech, dans la ville de Hassaka.
    « Sous prétexte de créer une zone sécurisée et de protéger les frontières turques contre les menaces que représentent les groupes terroristes, 12.000 soldats trucs sont prêts à intervenir, militairement, dans le Nord de la Syrie », a écrit le quotidien "Al-Hayat", de publication londonienne. Pour faire face aux Daechistes, dans l’Est de la Syrie, les forces kurdes, à Hassaka, ont rejoint les forces gouvernementales syriennes, a ajouté "Al-Hayat". Et ce, alors que Recep Tayyip Erdogan, le Président turc, a annoncé, samedi, qu’à aucun prix, il n’autorisera la formation d’un Etat kurde, sur les frontières de son pays avec la Syrie.

    Un peu différent mais même tonalité sur RT arabe : http://arabic.rt.com/news/787121-%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D8%B9%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D8%

    #turquie #syrie #daesh

    • Turkey to take “necessary measures” on border security: PM Davutoglu - Region - World - Ahram Online
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      The pro-government Star newspaper said a possible cross-border operation would be considered at the national security council meeting, citing unnamed sources.

      One option that could be considered was the creation of a 110 km (70 mile) “secure zone” within Syria, the newspaper said.

      RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

      Saban Disli, an adviser to Davutoglu, told Reuters the meeting was likely to bring a change in the military’s rules of engagement, describing advances of both Kurdish forces and Islamic State militants as “dangerous”.

      He did not say how the rules could be changed. However, the pro-government Sabah newspaper said policy could be altered to allow Turkish forces to attack Islamic State fighters near the border. Currently, Turkish forces retaliate in kind against any attack from Syrian territory.

      “Turkey will not take any unilateral step on the Syrian side independent of the international coalition,” a senior government official told Reuters. “But we have our sensitivity on border gates not coming under the control of ISIL or the PYD (Kurdish forces).”

      The National Security Council statement gave no detail about what was discussed or what, if any, decisions were taken.

      Military action could anger Turkey’s Kurdish minority at a time when the peace process between Ankara and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has stalled.

      A senior PKK commander, Murat Karayilan, told a Kurdish news website the group would retaliate if the military intervened in Kurdish areas of Syria. The PKK is considered a terrorist organisation by Ankara, the European Union and the United States.

      Brokerage Finansbank said in a note to clients that given Turkey’s current political uncertainty - Davutoglu’s AK Party still needs to find a junior partner to form a government following its election setback this month - any intervention would likely be limited.

      “We remain doubtful that a ’lame duck’ government could undertake anything more than a ’targeted’ operation that would be limited in both scale and scope,” it said.