{"id":45689,"date":"2019-10-10T10:23:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T02:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45689"},"modified":"2019-10-10T10:28:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T02:28:51","slug":"french-defence-minister-urges-turkey-to-stop-offensive-in-northeast-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45689","title":{"rendered":"French Defence Minister Urges Turkey To Stop Offensive In Northeast Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PARIS, Oct 10 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; French Defence Minister, Florence Parly urged Turkey to stop its military operation against the Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Turkish offensive is dangerous. Dangerous for the security of the Kurds. Dangerous because it benefits Daesh, against whom we have been fighting for five years,&#8221; Parly tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister said, France called for a United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation, which will be held on Thursday (today).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, Turkey launched military operations targeting Kurdish forces in several parts of northeast Syria, after the United States started pulling out its troops there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, yesterday declared the beginning of the military campaign to eliminate the Kurdish forces in northern Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey regards the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by the U.S.-led coalition, as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK), against which it has been waging a year-long war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington&#8217;s recent decision to withdraw troops from the Syrian region, which Turkey was planning to target is seen as abandoning the SDF there, a crucial ally in its fight against the Daesh terrorists in northern and eastern Syria.&#8211; NNN-XINHUA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, Oct 10 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; French Defence Minister, Florence Parly urged Turkey to stop its military operation against the Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria. &#8220;The Turkish offensive is dangerous. Dangerous for the security of the Kurds. Dangerous because it benefits Daesh, against whom we have been fighting for five years,&#8221; Parly tweeted. The minister said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":45691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45689"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}