Turkey’s governing AKP party of Prime Minister R. Tayyip Erdogan has pushed al-Qaeda-linked ISIS against the PYD after the latter declared autonomy. The PYD and PKK want to lift the border between northern Syria and southern Turkey and create an independent Kurdistan.
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a terrorist organization and an associate of al-Qaeda, has stated that it has declared war on the Kurdish nationalist group and PKK’s wing in Syria, the Democratic Union Party (PYD).
The PYD has recently announced autonomy in the north of the war-torn Syria. Al-Alam television reports that ISIS had begun an operation near the town of Manbij, northeast of Aleppo and 35 km from the Turkish border, to ‘clear’ the area of Kurdish groups.
In a declaration made in Aleppo, ISIS announced that “Operations in the region of Manbij are a reply to the founding of a secular state in the north of Syria by armed Kurdish groups.”
ISIS, which asserted that its attacks would be directed solely at armed Kurdish groups, said in their declaration that they saw other Kurds as brothers, and that they did not distinguish between Kurds and Arabs.
ISIS had previously disclosed that they had blocked roads around Aleppo in Syria and Kirkuk in northern Iraq, and had kidnapped 25 Kurdish civilians who had given them Kurdish administration passports.
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