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Syria warned Turkey yesterday that deploying troops inside its borders would be seen as “aggression” and urged the international community to “put limits to the adventures” of the Turkish leadership.
The warning followed the Ankara parliament’s provocative decision on Thursday to authorise military incursions into Syria and Iraq.
The Foreign Ministry in Damascus called the decision “an aggression against a founding member of the United Nations.”
Turkey has collaborated with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the jihadi groups they arm and finance in attempts to oust President Bashar al-Assad from power.
The Turkish decision dovetails with Washington’s assembly of a coalition to launch air strikes in Syria — ostensibly against Islamic State (Isis).
Combining air power and Turkish ground troops could be intended to impose a pro-imperialist regime in Syria, to the disadvantage of the Assad government and the country’s Kurdish minority.
Kurdish YPG self-defence units battled Isis fighters again yesterday to the east and south-east of border town Kobane.
The town and its surroundings have been under attack since mid-September, with militants capturing dozens of nearby Kurdish villages.
The assault, which has forced over 160,000 Syrians to flee, has left Kurdish fighters scrambling to repel the militants’ advance into the outskirts of Kobane.
Nasser Haj Mansour, a defence official in Syria’s Kurdish region, said that YPG forces had repelled the latest Isis attack.
Kobane region Kurdish Defence Minister Ismet Sheikh Hassan said that forces were trying to advance from the east, west and south-east of the town.
He called for the US “to hit the tanks instead of bases.”
Kurdish Democratic Union Party spokesman Nawaf Khali was not impressed by Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s statement that Akara does not want Kobane to fall.
“How does he want to prevent the fall of Kobane when until now Turkey has done nothing?” he asked.
Mr Khalil added that Kobane is now almost empty of civilians and that the situation “is very dangerous.”
