Karagül: The threat to Turkey is the PKK/PYD/Barzani corridor and the foreign intervention behind it

Yeni Şafak Editor-In-Chief İbrahim Karagül

'The Idlib operation is the beginning. The corridor will be broken. The plans to surround Turkey will fail,' says Yeni Şafak Editor-In-Chief İbrahim Karagül

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on Saturday that Turkey’s Idlib operation was launched. "There's a serious operation in Syria's Idlib today and it will continue. Currently, the Free Syrian Army [FSA] is conducting the operations, Turkish soldiers are not there yet," Erdoğan said in a speech to the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party.

Turkey aims to establish peace and security in the region. Yeni Şafak Editor-In-Chief İbrahim Karagül evaluated the Idlib operation in a series of Twitter posts.

“The Idlib operation is the beginning. The terror corridor will be broken. The plans to surround Turkey will fail. The big game will be ruined, it must be ruined,” Karagül said.

“The ‘corridor’ project being conducted using the PKK/PYD/Barzani that reaches from the Mediterranean to Iran’s border is a U.S./Israeli plan to siege Turkey,” he added.

The greatest threat

Erdoğan said Russia was backing the operation from the air, while Turkish soldiers were supporting it from within the Turkish borders. The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) are due to later be positioned within Idlib’s borders and establish various control and observation points.

“The terror corridor targeting Turkey is the greatest threat of the 21st century. Political experience spanning back hundreds of years will annihilate this threat,” Karagül said.

“The threat to Turkey is the PKK/PYD/Barzani corridor and the foreign intervention behind it. We will not allow another target shown to us distract us,” he continued.

To defend Anatolia

In his most recent column titled “So, should we fight in Anatolia rather than in Afrin? Is this what you are saying?” Karagül made crucial evaluations.

“The war that we think is happening in Syria and Iraq today is actually Turkey’s war. The defense we need to put up there today is to defend not only the integrity of the region, but also to defend Anatolia. The storm that has burned down cities of Iraq and Syria and turned them into ruins will soon turn toward the cities of Anatolia,” he said.