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Will the Kurds be facing two enemies, the Turks and Daesh, in a Syrian buffer zone?
The Russian foreign minister has censured Turkey's plan to establish a buffer zone in Syria, saying
such a proposal contradicts the international law and will heighten tensions in the region. "To our knowledge, the Turks have discussed with NATO their intention
to create ISIL (Daesh)-free zones in the territory of Syria. Indeed, that will violate every principle of international law and will lead to a substantial, qualitative escalation [of tensions]," Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the Russian daily,
Moskovsky Komsomolets, on Wednesday.
The buffer zone is planned to cover a border area between two Kurdish enclaves, "a combination of whose strength Turkey deems absolutely unacceptable for itself at least because that
will block Turkey's ability to provide supplies to militants in Syria and to receive contraband from them," he said.
The Turkish government has long been pushing for a buffer zone or no-fly zone inside Syria that stretches 110 kilometers (68 miles) long and 28 kilometers (17 miles) wide between the southern Turkish towns of Karkamis and Oncupinar. However, opponents say
Ankara is seeking to intensify its crackdown on minority Kurds, who are targeted in the Turkish army operations against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants.
Lavrov further accused Ankara of
holding secret negotiations with Daesh on smuggling, saying, "They're discussing various actions in the current conditions under our Aerospace Forces' airstrikes seriously limiting their traditional routes of smuggling."
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