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4/26/17, "YPJ Spox: We will withdraw from Raqqa if US doesn’t show concrete reaction to Turkey airstrikes," KOMNews.org (Netherlands)
"Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) spokeswoman, Nesrin Abdullah,
has said that the group’s forces will withdraw from the operation to
capture the Islamic State’s stronghold, Raqqa, if the US doesn’t take
concrete action against Turkish airstrikes targeting Kurdish forces in
Syria.
“The is unacceptable in international law. If the USA or coalition or the US [State Dept.]
spokesperson can only say, ‘We are concerned or we are unhappy’
[about Turkey’s airstrikes] then we will not accept this. If this is the
reaction, we do not accept it. It means they accept what was done to
us,” Abdullah told Sputnik Turkish on Wednesday.
The
spokeswoman for the all female YPJ, which is part of the People’s
Protection Units (YPG), a leading force in the US-backed Syrian
Democratic Forces that has encircled Raqqa, went on to say that unless
the US gave a concrete response they would withdraw from the operation.
“Until
now we have been in a joint struggle with the coalition against ISIS
[IS] terror. We are still involved in that struggle. [But] our people
are expecting a response from us on why the coalition is not
showing Turkey a concrete reaction. If the coalition does not show a
concrete reaction then we will withdraw our forces from Raqqa. They
[coalition] need to convince our people. We are not anyone’s stick to
beat their enemies with.”
Abdullah concluded by saying that Turkey
as a NATO member had carried out the airstrikes and that the lack of a
response meant that NATO approved the attack.
“If a practical and verbal reaction is not shown we will re-evaluate and decide what to do.”
12 YPJ
and 8 YPG members were killed in at least 18 airstrikes targeting a
media centre and headquarters near Mount Karachok in Derik, northeastern
Syria on Tuesday morning."
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