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Why are the flames of Aleppo burning Turkey?
Turkey, which has made Aleppo the key to toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, is gearing up for the worst-case scenario now that the armed opposition groups it has been supporting have suffered a series of setbacks.
The scenario that is emerging is that the defeated groups, which are supported by the West, Turkey and the Gulf states, are being pushed north to the Turkish border.
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There are signs on the ground that signal the next phase: To the east and north of Aleppo are the 105th Republic Guards, Tiger Forces, Desert Falcons, Baath Battalion, National Defense Forces, the militia of the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party and the Jerusalem Brigade set up by Palestinians. To the south of Aleppo, the Hezbollah al-Nujaba, Hezbollah and Iraqi Shiite militias can be seen preparing at Khan Tuman.
The goal of this plan appears to be, first, to clear out the rural Idlib terrain and reach the Shiite settlements of Fua and Kefraya, which are besieged by Jabhat Fatah al-Sham and its allies. Local sources think it is very likely that Hezbollah and Nujaba will launch an offensive from the south while the Syrian army and its allied militias simultaneously mount a major operation from the north. That will be the onset of Turkey’s nightmare scenario.
Ankara will either hold on firmly to the de facto buffer zone it created from the Kilis border to north of al-Bab and turn the rural terrain around Idlib into a safe zone for its allied groups, or they will allow the Syrian army to reach the Turkish border. In both cases, the Turkish border will heat up and Turkey will also have to deal with the jihadi heritage that could spill over the border.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/orig...-scenario.html