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A Kurdish commander in Syria underlined his forces’ firm will and readiness to stop any attempt by Turkish Army troops to advance towards the town of al-Bab in Northern Aleppo.

“Al-Bab is a strategic town for us, so, we do no allow the Turkish soldiers to continue their advances in Syria,” Co-Chairman of Syria’s Democratic Council Elham Ahmad underscored.

He further lashed out at the US’ dual track policies and said, “Turkey has sent its troops to Northern Syria after receiving Washington’s green light.”

“Now, every body knows that war on ISIL was only a pretext and was aimed at sending Turkish troops to Syria to occupy the country and annihilate Kurds,” Ahmad said.

“Saudi Arabia and Turkey are the root causes of all violent acts in Syria,” the commander said.

“The Turkish soldiers, using its affiliated terrorist groups, tried hard to advances towards Manbij town, but forces of Manbij military council clashed with them and killed nearly 37 terrorists,” Elham Ahmad said.

“Terrorists are backed up by Turkish army’s armored units,” he added.

The Turkish units shelled the village of Olasha on their way towards Manbij, destroying villagers’ houses.

Clashes have intensified between Syria’s Kurdish forces and the Turkish army in Northern Syria after the Turkish President announced on Tuesday that his country’s military forces entered Syrian territories to overthrow government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that the Turkish Army entered Syria to overthrow the Syrian President Bashar Assad, and accused the Syrian government of terrorism.

“We entered Syria to end the rule of al-Assad. We didn’t enter for any other reason,” the Turkish president said at the first Inter-Parliamentary Jerusalem Platform Symposium in Istanbul, RT reported.

Erdogan said that Turkey had no territorial claims in Syria, but instead wanted to hand over power to the Syrian population, adding that Ankara was seeking to restore “justice.”

“Why did we enter? We do not have an eye on Syrian soil. The issue is to provide lands to their real owners. That is to say we are there for the establishment of justice,” he said.

He went on to say that “in his estimation” almost 1 million people died in the conflict in Syria, although no monitoring group provided any similar figures. The latest UN estimate stands at 400,000 people killed in the five-year conflict.

Erdogan said that Turkey “had to enter Syria together with the Free Syrian Army.”

The Turkish leader also accused the UN of inability to influence the situation in Syria and said that the organization iwas ineffective in its current state.

“The world is bigger than five,” he said, referring to the number of permanent members on the UN Security Council, as reported by Hurriyet.

Turkish troops entered Syria on August 24, launching operation Euphrates Shield. Turkey deployed ground troops and air power to Northern parts of its neighboring country, with the stated goal of retaking areas held by ISIL.

However, many observers have said that Ankara aims to suppress Kurdish forces in Syria and prevent them from connecting three de facto autonomous Kurdish areas into one enclave South of the Turkish border.

In October, Turkey’s air forces killed between 160 and 200 fighters of the Kurdish YPG group in 26 airstrikes conducted in just one night. The Turkish military campaign in Syria has also led to increasingly strained relations with Assad’s government.

Ankara was forced to halt air support for its ground incursion into Syria on October 22, after Damascus vowed to shoot down Turkish Air Force planes in Syrian skies, accusing Turkey of violating its national sovereignty.

Turkey in turn accused the Syrian Army of attacking FSA militants in the Northern Aleppo province. 

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