British YPG fighters 'head to Manbij to face Turkish forces'
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/british-ypg-volunteers-head-manbij-face-turkish-forces-1840728706
A brigade of British volunteers fighting with a US-backed Kurdish militia in northern Syria say they are planning to oppose advances by Turkish-backed forces, a day after senior Turkish officials said all would be confronted as "terrorists".
In a series of statements on Twitter on Friday, the Bob Crow Brigade said that its members were leaving the Raqqa front, where they had been fighting the Islamic State (IS) group, to travel to Manbij, a town in northern Aleppo that the YPG took from IS last month, and where pro-Turkish forces now are massing.
Those forces include thousands of members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) trained in Turkey.
The statement comes a day after Turkish officials told Middle East Eye that British and foreign fighters allied with the YPG and its umbrella organisation, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), were considered part of a "terrorist organisation", had a "crusader" mentality and would be treated no differently in combat than local Kurdish fighters.
We are leaving the Raqqa front and heading to Manbij. pic.twitter.com/XDkPamRSQ7
— Bob Crow Brigade (@bobcrowbrigade) September 2, 2016
The brigade's statement said: "This 'FSA' is now 11km from Manbij which the SDF lost almost 500 lives liberating from ISIS for real.
"They want to 'take it back' from us. 'Take it back' for whom? There are no 'moderate rebels' locally outside the YPG-led SDF. Certainly not ones backed by Turkey.
"When we came to defend the revolution we meant from all enemies, big or small. We are leaving the Raqqa front and heading to Manbij."
The Turkish army entered Syria last week, supporting rebels from the Free Syrian Army in their incursion into the IS-held border town of Jarabulus. Since then the Turkish forces and their allies have clashed with fighters from the YPG, which it says is closely linked to its long-time internal foe, the PKK.
Turkish forces have moved closer towards Manbij and ordered all remaining Kurdish fighters to leave or face the consequences.
Turkey has said that it will not allow YPG forces to control any area west of the Euphrates river, which would allow for a contiguous "terrorist corridor" that would link up Syrian areas under Kurdish control along its southern border.
This “FSA” is now 11km from Manbij which the SDF lost almost 500 lives liberating from ISIS for real. They want to “take it back” from us.
— Bob Crow Brigade (@bobcrowbrigade) September 2, 2016
In its statement, the brigade claimed that members of the Turkish-backed FSA were part of IS, a fact that explained the ease of their victory in Jarabulus.
Turkey denies allegations that it has supported IS, and has suffered several large-scale attacks in Istanbul and Ankara in the past year.
Ankara has repeatedly told the YPG to leave areas west of the Euphrates and rejected a truce offer brokered by the US earlier this month.
On Thursday, Yunus Akbaba, an adviser to the Turkish prime minister, told MEE: "Turkey does not differentiate on the basis of nationality when it comes to membership in terrorist organisations.
"In the heat of battle we are not going to stop and ask the terrorists what their nationality is.
“Turkey will not hesitate to confront terrorist organisations within the scope of its operation. These are terrorist groups and anyone fighting under their banner will be considered terrorists,” he said.
“It is the responsibility of the countries where they come from to prevent them from joining these groups. Turkish forces will confront them if they are fighting under the banner of terrorist groups, regardless of whether they are members of allied countries,” he said.
The British foreign office declined to comment directly on the Turkish statement, instead pointing MEE to long-standing advice telling all British nationals to leave Syria as soon as possible.
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Bob Crow Brigade : "There are no 'moderate rebels' locally outside the YPG-led SDF."
According to these western cowboys secular nationalist Kurdish militia are the only moderates. But this is exactly what west means when they say moderate i.e moderate as per our standard which is a group must espouse secularism and western values to be termed moderate and legitimate actors in syria. The secular kurds NO matter how many people they ethnically cleanse will remain blue eyed boys for western media. Also Western nations like Britain has already vilified those british muslims going to syria. NOT all those going to syria are joining terrorist ISIS cult. Many are going there for humanitarian reasons and also many joined other rebel groups backed and considered legitimate by Turkey , Qatar and Saudi Arabia. These foreign fighters don't even constitute .0001% of syrian armed opposition as its already clear that syrian uprising is a homegrown effort. Even those who went as humanitarian workers like this guy Tauqir Sharif working for legal charity organization are now barred from entering UK and will most likely be persecuted for the crime of going to syria:
https://defence.pk/threads/british-muslims-living-with-and-investing-in-the-syrian-people.413161/
https://defence.pk/threads/the-thousands-of-omran-daqneeshes-i-have-seen.445850/
If even western muslim humanitarian workers are criminals in the eyes of british gov why are these cow boys fighting for secular kurds who slaughtered thousands of turks and ethnically cleansed arabs from syrian towns NOT be considered criminals and terrorist? Is it because YPD are secular and espouse secular western values? Believe it or not these cow boys going to the syria to aide secular kurdish terrorists are glorified in the western media:
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/09/who-are-western-fighters-against-isis-kurds-syria-494449.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...to-fight-isis-in-iraq-and-syria-a7041136.html
Btw ISIS/Daesh terrorist cult is also secular and is run by former bathist of Iraq. They have also served western interest very well.
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