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Le 1er ministre turc Davutoglu a confirmé sur une chaîne de télévision turque que l’armée turque avait bien frappé le PYD directement en Syrie, et non pas seulement le PKK en Irak ou en Turquie. Il s’agit d’attaques ayant eu lieu récemment à Tall Abyad (ville reprise à Daesh par le PYD) et ceci comme avertissement à la milice kurde que le passage à l’Ouest de l’Euphrate (donc dans la zone contrôlée par Jaysh al-Fateh, coalition comprenant al-Qaïda en Syrie) lui était interdit par Ankara. Objectif : empêcher le PYD de faire la jonction entre le canton d’Afrin et le reste des zones contrôlées par le PYD et d’affaiblir les alliés d’Erdogan en Syrie :
▻http://www.rfi.fr/moyen-orient/20151027-kurdes-turquie-bombardement-pyd-syrie-premiere-fois-erdogan?ns_campaign

C’est une première depuis le début de la guerre en Syrie : la Turquie a reconnu avoir effectué des bombardements non pas contre les positions de l’organisation Etat islamique, mais contre celles des combattants kurdes de Syrie. Ankara affirme avoir procédé à ces frappes pour empêcher les milices kurdes syriennes de progresser à l’ouest de l’Euphrate. La Turquie s’inquiète en effet des succès militaires des Kurdes de Syrie et veut empêcher les milices du PYD d’étendre leur territoires dans le nord du pays.

Le New York Times précise :
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/world/europe/turkey-syria-kurdish-militias.html?_r=0

In an interview on a Turkish news channel Monday night, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu of Turkey did not specify when the strikes had taken place, but he said they came after Turkey’s government in Ankara warned Kurdish fighters not to move west of the Euphrates River.
“We struck them twice,” Mr. Davutoglu said.
The Turkish strikes were in Tal Abyad, a largely Arab border town that the Kurds captured from the Islamic State over the summer. The strikes appear to have been limited — they were said to involve machine-gun fire from across the border and did not seem to cause much damage — but they could suggest a new determination by Turkey to expand military operations against the American-allied group.

L’Assemblée des turkmènes syriens (▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Turkmen_Assembly) s’est réunie à Gaziantep (Turquie) pour décider que les différents groupes de combattants turkmènes qui opèrent sous la bannière de l’ASL, en étroite coordination avec les militaires turcs, soient unifiés au sein d’un commandement militaire unique visant à combattre et refouler les kurdes du YPG (beaucoup) et éventuellement Da3ich (un peu, si les Turcs s’entendent avec les Américains) :
▻https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/565547-syria-turkmen-move-to-form-anti-kurd-army

Syrian Turkmen military and political officials, who are close to Turkey, have been moving to form a unified army in northern Syria capable of confronting the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara views as a terror group.
“Turkmen fighting groups in Syria have taken the decision to offer greater support to each other and work to create a Turkmen army if conditions permit,” Syrian Turkmen Assembly chief Abdel Rahman Mustafa told Turkish Anadolu news on Monday.
The Turkmen official’s comments came as the Syrian Turkmen Assembly held a meeting in southern Turkey’s Gaziantep that brought together Turkmen representatives from Aleppo, Tal Abyad, Jarabulus, Latakia, Idlib, Raqqa and the Golan.
Alaraby Aljadeed reported that the Turkmen military and civilian officials in the meeting decided to form a military council which reports to the Syrian Turkmen Assembly, a pro-opposition group with ties to the Turkish government.
The decision to form the council comes after calls emerged from Turkmen military formations to fight both ISIS and the Kurdish Democratic Union Party that controls the YPG, the London-based daily added.
Syrian Turkmen have already armed themselves in a series of brigades throughout Syria that are loosely affiliated with each other and count on about 10,000 armed men in total, with the largest fighting units operating in the Aleppo province.
Turkey’s security institutions maintain close links with the Turkmen units in Syria, providing special forces training to the brigades, which are affiliated with the Free Syrian Army and have taken part in operations in Aleppo, Idlib and outside Latakia.

Erdogan tente-t-il une voie médiane pour peser sur les évènements au Nord et éviter un contrôle par la milice kurde des routes d’approvisionnement de Da3ich et des rebelles d’Ansar al-Chariah (al-Nusra, Ahrar al-Cham et les débris de l’ASL) sans avoir à recourir à une intervention militaire directe qui rencontre l’hostilité de certains militaires turcs et des States ?
Toujours est-il que deux envoyés militaires américains ont rencontré aujourd’hui des officiels turcs pour discuter de la Syrie selon l’AFP :
▻http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/contents/afp/2015/07/syria-conflict-turkey-us-military-diplomacy.html

The US special envoy for the coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group was in Ankara on Tuesday to meet Turkish officials, after speculation Turkey could launch a military intervention inside Syria, sources told AFP.
“General John Allen will hold talks in Ankara today,” a Turkish official told AFP on condition of anonymity, adding that the talks were “naturally” expected to focus on the fight against IS.
Accompanied by US Undersecretary of Defence for Policy Christine Wormuth and military officials, Allen is expected to meet with Feridun Sinirlioglu, the Turkish undersecretary of the foreign ministry as well as military chiefs, the source said.
Turkey has reinforced its military presence on the volatile border over the past week, deploying tanks and anti-aircraft missiles there as well as additional troops.
The moves come as fighting between Islamist-led groups an
d Syrian regime forces in the northern city of Aleppo has intensified.

Syrie : les Kurdes progressent à la frontière turque
▻http://www.rfi.fr/moyen-orient/20150614-syrie-kurdes-progressent-frontiere-turque

Depuis la fin de la journée de samedi, les communications entre la Turquie et Raqqa, place forte de l’organisation Etat islamique, sont coupées et les dernières forces jihadistes bloquées dans le bourg de Tal-Abyad tentent de se fondre dans la foule des réfugiés qui demandent à entrer en Turquie.

Filmés par les agences de télévision turques, des militants de l’Etat islamique, parfois blessés, parfois même armés, essayent ainsi de se dissimuler parmi les civils qui cherchent à trouver refuge mais les forces de sécurité turques ont fait usage de canons à eau pour les repousser et les disperser.

Face à cette tragédie humanitaire, les forces kurdes ont stoppé les bombardements sur la ville de Tal-Abyad, mais, aidés par les bombardements de la coalition, leur conquête de ce poste-frontière et de ce couloir stratégiques ne fait plus de doute.

Islamists, secular rebels battle in Syria over Nusra Front’s call for Islamic state | McClatchy
▻http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/03/26/186970/islamists-secular-rebels-battle.html

Des combats meurtriers entre rebelles syriens à la frontière turque.

TAL ABYAD, Syria — Two Syrian rebel groups – one seeking an elected civil government, the other favoring the establishment of a religious state – are battling each other in the city of Tal Abyad, on the border with Turkey, in a sign of the tensions that are likely to rule this country if the government of President Bashar Assad falls.

Four people were killed Sunday in fighting here between the Farouq Battalions, which favors elections, and Jabhat al Nusra, or the Nusra Front, which the United States has declared an al Qaida-affiliated terrorist group. Since then, Farouq has been massing men here in an example of the growing friction that’s emerged in recent months as Nusra has captured strategic infrastructure across Syria’s north and east, including oil and gas installations, grain silos and a hydroelectric dam.

Raqqa province, where Tal Abyad is, and Hasaka province, to the east, are poverty-stricken but vital to Syria’s agriculture. Hasaka and Deir el Zour province to the south are the center of the country’s oil industry.

“They want to control the border crossing here,” said Abu Mansour, a member of Farouq in Tal Abyad. Like other rebels, he uses a nom de guerre to hide his identity from the government.

The rivalry between the groups is a reminder of how divided Syria’s rebel factions are and how inaccurate it is to refer to the anti-Assad forces as if they were a single group, with a single goal. Indeed, while news stories for months often referred to rebels as the Free Syrian Army, that term is more an idea than an organization. Instead, the rebel movement comprises dozens of groups whose ideologies have only one common goal: the toppling of the Assad regime.