Türkiye is welcoming recent developments in Syria, where the new government has made swift gains against the PKK/YPG terrorists with an abrupt offensive, moves Ankara considers as strengthening its neighbor’s territorial integrity and enhancing regional security.
Ankara has long viewed the YPG, which dominates the so-called SDF based in northern Syria, as a threat, as Türkiye fought to quell the PKK, whose decades‑long terror campaign cost tens of thousands of lives in Türkiye, as well as Iraq and Syria.
Just a few months after the PKK in Türkiye agreed to lay down its arms, the collapse of the YPG is a major step toward Ankara's regional goals.
In just two weeks, the YPG, once militarily backed by the U.S.
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