{"id":1410,"date":"2024-12-25T15:12:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T15:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/erdogan-says-kurdish-militia-in-syria-will-be-buried-if-they-do-not-lay-down-arms\/"},"modified":"2024-12-25T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T15:12:17","slug":"erdogan-says-kurdish-militia-in-syria-will-be-buried-if-they-do-not-lay-down-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/erdogan-says-kurdish-militia-in-syria-will-be-buried-if-they-do-not-lay-down-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan says Kurdish militia in Syria will be buried if they do not lay down arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Kurdish militants in Syria will either lay down their weapons or \u201cbe buried,\u201d amid hostilities between Turkey-backed Syrian fighters and the militants since the fall of Bashar al-Assad this month.<\/p>\n<p>Following Assad\u2019s departure, Ankara has repeatedly insisted that the Kurdish YPG militia must disband, asserting that the group has no place in Syria\u2019s future. The change in Syria\u2019s leadership has left the country\u2019s main Kurdish factions on the back foot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe separatist murderers will either bid farewell to their weapons, or they will be buried in Syrian lands along with their weapons,\u201d Erdogan told lawmakers from his ruling AK Party in parliament. \u201cWe will eradicate the terrorist organization that is trying to weave a wall of blood between us and our Kurdish siblings,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey views the Kurdish YPG militia \u2013 the main component of the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) \u2013 as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia, which has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984.<\/p>\n<p>The PKK is designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. Ankara has repeatedly called on its NATO ally Washington and others to stop supporting the YPG.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Turkey\u2019s defense ministry said the armed forces had killed 21 YPG-PKK militants in northern Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>In a Reuters interview last week, SDF commander Mazloum Abdi acknowledged the presence of PKK fighters in Syria for the first time, saying they had helped battle Islamic State and would return home if a total ceasefire was agreed with Turkey, a core demand from Ankara.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>He denied any organizational ties with the PKK.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan also said Turkey would soon open its consulate in Aleppo, and added Ankara expected an increase in traffic at its borders in the summer of next year, as some of the millions of Syrian migrants it hosts begin returning. 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