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Here is the text of the statement by the Afrin canton Democratic Autonomous Administration: https://anfenglish.com/rojava/statement-from-afrin-canton-democratic-autonomous-administration-24464/ The statement indicates that Afrin relies primarily on its own defence forces: "We confirm once again that we will resist these barbaric attacks against Afrin and stand against Turkey's attempts to invade the Afrin region". But the Afrin administration would also like help from the Syrian state, and tries to shame the Assad regime into providing it: "We expect the Syrian state to fulfill its responsibilities and protect Afrin and its own borders from Turkey. We remind Syria of its responsibility that it has not fulfilled despite having made an official statement on the matter...". It is unclear from this statement what sort of help the Afrin administration wants. To me, the most obvious thing would be for Syria to warn Turkey that its aircraft entering Syrian airspace to attack Afrin will be shot down. Given that Assad has a deal with Erdogan whereby Turkey can invade Afrin while Assad has a free hand in Idlib, the prospects of Assad helping Afrin are not good. But perhaps the Afrin administration think it is worth a try. Chris Slee ________________________________ From: Marxism <marxism-boun...@lists.csbs.utah.edu> on behalf of Louis Proyect via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> Sent: Saturday, 27 January 2018 8:47:10 AM To: Chris Slee Subject: Re: [Marxism] [Critical-Syria] Re: Fwd: In blow to Trump, Syrian Kurds call on al-Assad to Save them from Turkey | Informed Comment ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. ***************************************************************** On 1/26/18 4:37 PM, Nick Fredman via Marxism wrote: > The veracity of this report, is a bit unclear. Note previous reports of > secret deals to hand over Manbij and Raqqa to the regime have proved to be > completely false. Yes, we understand that the PYD is opposed to anybody taking Afrin away from their control but the issue seems to be it urging Assad to repel the Turks. After all, the Kurds have shown themselves extremely capable of applying realpolitik to their strategic interests. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/chris_w_slee%40hotmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
