The U.S. army in the northern Syrian city of Manbij organized a graduation ceremony for terrorist members after giving them 3 months of training.
While the U.S. declared the PKK a terrorist organization in Turkey and Iraq, the Pentagon continues to support the same terror group in Syria under the name of PYD /YPG or DSF.
More than 4,000 terrorists have been trained by U.S. forces in the city under the guise of a preparation for the Raqqa operation.
All terrorists have been awarded with the “certificate of achievement” after a three-month-long training.
Training courses reportedly include topics like “tactic-strategy”, “missile”, “tank”, and “fire arms”.
Ankara repeatedly warned Washington not to play a dangerous game by supporting terror groups in the region.
It said the arms and trainings provided by the U.S. could not only be used against its allies in the area, but against the U.S. itself, too.
The game that the Pentagon has been playing in the area is dangerous. A terror group should not be supported to eliminate another terror group. There is not bad and good among the terror groups, according to Turkish leadership.
The Pentagon is planning to leave Turkey out of the game in the Raqqa operation.
Turkey's military has been conducting an operation against Daesh terrorists in northern Syria, which is believed to be one of the most successful operation against the group in Syria.
Turkey's military backed Free Syrian Army fighters have liberated nearly 1,200-square-kilometer areas from Daesh in northern Aleppo.
Now the operation is heading towards al-Bab, one of the Daesh strongholds in the area, as Raqqa could be the final destination of the operation, dubbed the Euphrates Shield.
On the other hand, an operation in the norther Iraqi city of Mosul is due later this month to liberate the residents from Daesh.
Ankara says Turkey would apply its own game plan, if Turkey's military isn't allowed to join the Mosul operation.
According to media reports, Washington, Baghdad and Irbil had already agreed to launch the operation in Oct. 23.
Shiite militias and the PKK terrorists would be the frontier forces of the operation in the city that have a majority Sunni population of 450,000 people.
The Northern Iraqi Regional Government (KRG), former governor of Mosul and the leader of al-Hashdi al-Watani militia group said the operation in Mosul will be very critical and sensitive as almost all citizens are Sunni.
If the operation is led by Shiite and PKK terror groups, it could not be welcomed by Mosul civilians as there was a wide-spreading fear of the city being captured by Shiites, and a Sunni genocide like Fallujah could happen, they said.
A huge refugee influx towards Turkey and the KRG territories are highly likely if these two regional players are omitted from the operation.
Despite all these scenarios, the Washington administration insisted to leave Turkey out of the operation.
It allegedly influenced Baghdad to raise the question of Turkey's military presence in the Bashiqa camp just days before the operation.
Since late 2014, the Turkish military has been stationed in the camp after a request from the Iraqi government to train the local forces and prepare them for a final assault on Daesh in Mosul.
After two years, Baghdad voiced unease against the Turkish military presence though there are nearly 4,000 US military across the country. Moreover, around 1,400 troops from UK, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden are stationed in several military bases in the country.
According to the Mosul operation plan, 5,400 foreign military would provide the “consultancy” support with “heavy weapons” to the fighting forces.
Ankara, which is following the developments closely, is continuing diplomatic contacts with all parties to solve the deadlock.
If it doesn't produce any positive results, Turkey may mobilize its troops from Bashiqa and other military camps inside Iraq towards Mosul.
