Konflikten i Syrien

Turkey’s Syria offensive may play into Assad’s hands – columnist

Turkey’s military offensive against the Kurdish-held northwestern Syrian enclave of Afrin will not only weaken the Kurds’ position, but may also sow the seeds of suspicion between Kurdish forces and their ally the United States, veteran Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn wrote for liberal British news site The Independent.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad “will not like Turkish military units entering Syrian territory, but there are advantages for him if the Turkish offensive shows the Kurds that they cannot rely on the U.S. to protect them,” he said.

A source who attended the fruitless negotiations between Damascus and PYD months ago told me that Russia suggested that YPG hand over all the areas around Afrin to SAA while keeping the city and district around it, under its control, PYD refused and Damascus\Russia were furious

The PYD refusal, pushed Damascus and Russia to believe that US was behind the PYD decision to keep its control over all of Afrin, Damascus delegation also believed that US promised PYD that it will defend Afrin, because otherwise PYD decistion made no sense

The source who was just a guard of a Syrian officer told me : "we would go, tell them all the suggestion we and the Russians prepared ... all of which were approved by Turkey, than the PYD official would lecture us about Ocalan and say No to everything what so ever"

Since October 2017, the Syrian Military intelligence and Russia told the PYD that the possibility of a Turkish attack is 100%, there is officers who didn't sleep for weeks trying to talk sense into PYD , they were usually met with laughs or lectures about Ocalan and Kubani