Assad Hands Control Of Syria’s Kurdish Areas To PKK, Sparking Outrage In Turkey -- McClatchy NewsISTANBUL — President Bashar Assad, facing a growing rebel presence in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and its commercial hub, has turned control of parts of northern Syria over to militant Kurds who Turkey has long branded as terrorists, prompting concern that Istanbul might see the development as a reason to send troops across its border with Syria.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in comments late Wednesday, said that Turkey would not accept an entity in northern Syria governed by the Iraq-based Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which has long waged a guerrilla war against Turkey, and its Syrian affiliate, the Democratic Union Party.
He said the two groups had built a “structure in northern Syria” that for Turkey means “a structure of terror.”
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My Comment: I am sure that Assad did not want to do this .... but he is losing this war, and sending his soldiers to Aleppo is more important to him than keeping them in some eastern towns that have a Kurdish population. For the Kurds, this is a significant victory. As to the outraged Turkish reaction to this development .... I doubt that Assad cares right now.
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