Syria's main Kurdish party, on Wednesday called on the U.N. Security Council to act quickly to ensure the safety of Kurdish-controlled territories in the country's north.
The Turkish government has said he will launch a military offensive in the coming days against territories controlled by the Syrian Kurdish YPG militant group in northwestern and eastern Syria, and in particular the enclave of Afrin.
The Kurdish Democratic Union Party, or PYD, the political arm of the YPG, said that if Turkey launches an operation against Afrin, the world will bear responsibility for the lives of people residing there. The PYD called on the Security Council to "move immediately" to ensure the security of Kurdish-controlled areas in Syria.
"Such a responsible behaviour will lead to the desired result in finding a resolution for the Syrian crisis," the PYD said in a statement. "The Turkish regime...has become a threat to any solution to the Syrian crisis," it added.
The U.S.-led coalition recently said it is planning a 30,000-strong Kurdish-led border force, further angering Turkey.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said he told U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that those plans were a "perilous" step that would "seriously endanger ties." The two met in Vancouver Tuesday. "Such a development would damage Turkish-American ties in an irreversible manner," the state-run Anadolu Agency quoted Çavuşoğlu as saying on Wednesday.
