Alwaght- The Syrian Kurdish forces under the umbrella of ‘People’s Defense Units’ (YPG) continue to expand the areas under their control and have captured strategic town of Tel Abyad to cut off one of the main communication lifelines of ISIS terrorist group with Turkey, as this town is close to the Turkish borders and is on the road that links al-Raqqa to Turkey.
On Monday, field sources reported that People’s Defense Units, the military branch of the Democratic Union Party of Syria, have took the full control of Tel Abyad city.
The town of Tel Abyad is about 60 kilometers to the North of al-Raqqa that ISIS seized in the summer of 2013 useing as its bastion for advancing towards the North and East of Syria and Iraq’s soil. The fall of Tel Abyad not only cut off the most important communication lifeline of ISIS to Turkey, but also increased the vulnerability of al-Raqqa for ISIS. Charles Lister, a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar, on his Twitter page, noting the Kurds’ fall of Tel Abyad, wrote that the fall of this town posed ‘a threat against al-Raqqa’.
Over the past three months, the Kurdish forces in Syria have launched serious attacks against ISIS in both Kobani and Hasaka. The town of Tell Abyad is situated between the two regions, and that’s why it is of prime importance for the Kurds.
Although some Arabic and Western media have tried to highlight the role of some armed opposition Syrian groups in the Kurds’ success to seize back Tel Abyad, the news aired by some independent media show that this group had a minor role in the advances made by the Kurds which started from Thursday. In the meantime, the Syrian army reported that it has bombarded the positions of ISIS around the town of Tel Abyad; the US-led coalition members have also announced they have targeted the positions of ISIS around the town.
The fall of city in to the Kurds forces has caused troubles for Ankara government. Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his concern about the city's fall, while over the past few weeks, undeniable documents and reports were published that confirmed that his government was collaborating with ISIS. Noting that the Kurds' accomplishment is not ‘a good sign’, Erdogan warned this achievement ‘will lead to the creation of a structure that threatens our borders’.
Erdogan added that everyone should ‘take into account our sensitivity to this issue’. He has frequently reiterated that the advances of the Kurdish fighters can lead to domination of PKK fighters over northern Syria. Erdogan's stance has angered human rights activists. Kenneth Roth, head of Human Rights Watch, in New York, wrote on his Twitter page: It appears that Erdogan prefers that ISIS take control of Tel Abyad rather than the Kurds seize it back.
According to the Turkish Birgün daily news, before the Syria crisis, Turkey was delivering electricity to Tel Abyad as part of a deal with the Syrian government and the delivery continued even after ISIS captured Tel Abyad, thanks to the alleged collusion between the Justice and Development Party government in Turkey and the terrorist group.
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