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BEIRUT (AP) \u2014 The U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria said Tuesday that they will turn to the government in Damascus for support should Turkey go ahead with its threat to launch a new incursion into the war-torn country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, said after a meeting of its command that its priority is to reduce tension near the border with Turkey but also prepare for a long fight if Ankara carries out its threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement appears to be a message directed at the United States and meant to elicit pressure from Washington on Turkey\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to put aside his offensive plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erdogan has repeatedly said over the past weeks that he\u2019s planning a major military operation to create a 30-kilometer (19 mile) deep buffer zone inside Syria along Turkey\u2019s border, through a cross-border incursion against U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish fighters \u2014 an attempt that failed in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analysts have said Erdogan is taking advantage of the war in Ukraine to push his own goals in Syria \u2014 even using Turkey\u2019s ability as a NATO member to veto alliance membership by Finland and Sweden as potential leverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. Army Soldiers and U.S. Air Force JTAC partners with Syrian Democratic Forces to conduct an AH-64(Apache) live-fire in the Central Command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility, Mar. 20, 2021. The Soldiers are in Syria to support the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) mission. CJTF remains committed to working by, with, and through our partners to ensure the enduring defeat of Daesh. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Torrance Saunders)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the ground, the situation has been tense with near daily exchanges of fire and shelling between the U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters on one side and Turkish forces and Turkey-backed Syrian opposition gunmen on the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Turkey-backed Syrian opposition fighters have been preparing for weeks to take part in the expected operation against Syrian Kurdish-led forces, seeking to expand their area of influence inside Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, relations between the Kurdish-led fighters who control large parts of northern and eastern Syria \u2014 including the towns of Tel Rifaat and Manbij that Erdogan has named as possible targets \u2014 with the Syrian President Bashar Assad\u2019s forces have been mostly frosty over the past years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But faced with Erdogan\u2019s threat, Syrian Kurdish fighters may want those ties to thaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe meeting confirmed the readiness of (SDF) forces to coordinate with forces of the Damascus government to confront any possible Turkish incursion and to protect Syrian territories against occupation,\u201d the statement said and added that a \u201cpossible Turkish invasion will affect the stability and unity of Syria\u2019s territories.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement did not elaborate on what such a coordination entailed \u2014 and whether an alliance with Assad\u2019s government in Damascus would translate into joint forces on the ground. Syrian Kurdish officials could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2016, Turkey has launched three major operations inside Syria, targeting Syria\u2019s main Kurdish militia \u2014 the People\u2019s Protection Units or YPG \u2014 which Turkey considers to be a terrorist organization and an extension of Turkey\u2019s outlawed Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party, or PKK. The PKK has for decades waged an insurgency within Turkey against the government in Ankara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The YPG, a backbone of the SDF, has led the fight against the militants of the extremist Islamic State group and has been a proven top U.S. ally in Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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