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KURDISH groups have warned Turkey’s authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan against attacking their forces in northern Syria and called for support from the international community.
The People’s Democratic Party (HDP) and other organisations, mostly based in Turkey, issued a joint statement today after Mr Erdogan threatened to strike against the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia on the pretext of creating a “safety buffer zone” in Syria.
Turkey’s plans for an incursion into the semi-autonomous region known as Rojava have nothing to do with border security but would constitute an “occupation,” they said.
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