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US backs Turkey as forces seize IS-held town in Syria

US shows support to Ankara for cross-border offensive in Jarabulus, while telling Kurdish allies they must advance no further in north Syria
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ISTANBUL, Turkey – Ankara received multiple boosts on Wednesday when the US backed the Turkish seizure of an Islamic State-held Syrian border town, and warned Kurdish allies in Syria they must halt their advances or face losing American support.

In a visit to Ankara, US Vice President Joe Biden said the US supported the Turkish incursion into Jarabulus, after earlier warning that America's Syrian-Kurdish allies of the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, "should not spread west of the Euphrates... if they do they will never receive US support again. Period.”

That statement strongly supported Ankara's long-held "red line" policy that such a crossing would create a contiguous Kurdish enclave in the north of Syria and boost Turkey's arch-enemy, the Kurdish PKK.

Within hours of Biden's statement, Kurdish website K24 reported that the YPG was withdrawing as demanded.

The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, later said residents in Jarabulus "have their city back" - suggesting the town was in the control of his forces.

The US said it had used F-16 and A-10 "tankbuster" jets to support Turkish armour, special forces and up to 5,000 allied Syrian FSA soldiers in the battle, which began in the early hours of Wednesday.
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Die PKK-Terrorkurden haben sich selbst ins Knie geschossen. Jetzt wo die PKK-Terrorkurden Assad und Russland verraten und ihnen in den Rücken gefallen sind, um anschliessend mit den USA zu paktieren, werden die Terrorkurden von den USA wie eine heisse Kartoffel fallengelassen. Die USA wollen offenbar den Bündnispartner Türkei nicht mit der PKK wechseln. Wer setzt schon auf Loser?

Mit Assad und Russland haben die Terrorkurden nun auch ausgeschissen.

Dummes Terroristenpack, haben absolut nichts in der Birne.

Die waren nix, die können nix und aus denen wird auch nix!