Erdogan wants to enter this region, controlled by the Civil Protection Units (YPG) and with a strong presence of the US Army, to create a "security camp" at the border. The Ankara Government has already announced its intention to enter this region and agreed with the United States to create a "security framework" on the northern border between Syria and Turkey. However, Erdogan has denounced that the Donald Trump administration is slowing down the creation of this new field of action.

Erdogan said he reported on his military movements to Russia and the United States in announcing the start of military operations in Libya. This region of Syrian Kurdistan is absolutely strategic. On the other side of the Euphrates, Turkey began more than a year ago to make moves to release the camp to the YPG. In fact, the YPG are classified in Turkey as a “terrorist organization.” These Kurdistan People’s Protection Units have been the main allies of the United States in the war against Daesh, and this is clearly seen by the distribution of American military bases in Syria, which has ten military bases of Syrian Kurdistan.

Situation of the Syrian War

As part of the announcement of military operations by Turkey, the United States has four military bases less than 80 km away between the cities of Kobane and Ain Issa. In Syria, the situation has not changed much in recent months. The Syrian Army remains the largest part of the territory, including the major cities of the country: Damascus, Homs, Latakia and Aleppo, for example. Daesh, which is currently marginal, controls only a part of its areas in eastern Syria. The north-west Idlib region is divided between the Jabhat al-Nusra Salafists and the Syrian opponents. North of Idlib, in the vicinity of the city of Afrin, is Turkey.