“Turkey is seeking to isolate Kobani, a city of tremendous importance to the Kurdish leadership within the SDF, and place it under siege,” Nicholas Heras, a Senior Analyst and Program Head for State Resilience and Fragility at Newlines, told Kurdistan 24 on Tuesday.
“Ankara is looking to signal to the Syrian Kurds, and to the Russians and the Americans, that it is the shaping power in northern Syria.”
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