{"id":1238,"date":"2020-02-19T16:56:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T13:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ikhrw.com\/en\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2020-02-19T16:56:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T13:26:32","slug":"us-warns-ypg-on-idlib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ikhrw.com\/en\/article\/us-warns-ypg-on-idlib\/","title":{"rendered":"US warns YPG on Idlib"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nUnited States have warned the People&#8217;s Defense Units (YPG) &#8211; the PKK&#8217;s armed\nwing in Syrian Kurdistan &#8211; that it will not protect it against Turkish attacks\nif YPG intervenes in the Idlib war. Murad Yetkin, a journalist from Turkey&#8217;s\nHurrayat journal, writes about the Syrian Army&#8217;s war Idlib saying as the US asked\nthe YPG not to interfere nor support the Syrian army, otherwise it will stop\nsupporting it against the Turkish attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps\nthis is why Mustafa Bali, a spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) &#8211;\naffiliated with the PKK \u2013 announced some days ago that their forces were not in\nIdlib and would not intervene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some Kurdish experts believe because the Syrian army has reached near the border with Afrin, under the control of Turkish-backed terrorist groups, so YPG must support the Syrian army against Turkish-supported terrorist groups. 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