Syrian Kurds 押し進める deeper into Islamic 明言する／公表する 要塞／本拠地
By Tom Perry
BEIRUT, June 13 (Reuters) - The Syrian Kurdish YPG 民兵 said it began an 前進する に向かって an Islamic 明言する／公表する-held town at the Turkish 国境 on Saturday, thrusting deeper into the jihadists' 要塞／本拠地 of Raqqa 州 in a （選挙などの）運動をする 支援するd by U.S.-led 空気／公表する strikes.
Redur Xelil, the YPG 広報担当者, told Reuters the YPG and smaller Syrian Arab 反逆者／反逆する groups fighting と一緒に it had begun the move に向かって Tel Abyad after encircling the Islamic 明言する／公表する-held town of Suluk 20 km (12 miles) to the southeast.
The 前進する raises the prospect of a 戦う／戦い at the Turkish 国境 between the 井戸／弁護士席-organised YPG 民兵 and Islamic 明言する／公表する. Tel Abyad is important to Islamic 明言する／公表する as the nearest 国境 town to its de facto 資本／首都 of Raqqa city.
Fighting 近づく the 国境 has already 軍隊d more than 13,000 people to cross into Turkey from Syria. Some 1,500 more are waiting to cross. Turkish 兵士s sprayed water and 解雇する／砲火／射撃d into the 空気／公表する when some of them approached the 国境 盗品故買者 on Saturday, a 安全 source said.
The YPG has made a 決定するd 押し進める into Raqqa 州 from 隣人ing Hasaka where, with the help of the U.S.-led 同盟, it has driven Islamic 明言する／公表する from wide areas of 領土 since 早期に May.
"The move に向かって Tel Abyad from the east began today after the 完成 of the Suluk 封鎖," Xelil said. "Many of the Daesh 交戦的なs have fled (Suluk), apart from a group of 自殺 攻撃者s inside the town and the ばか者 罠（にかける）s, so we are very 用心深い about entering the town centre," he 追加するd 経由で Skype.
Daesh is an Arabic 指名する for Islamic 明言する／公表する.
The Syrian 観測所 for Human 権利s, a UK-based organisation that 跡をつけるs the war, said the YPG 闘士，戦闘機s were now half-way between Suluk and Tel Abyad, 据えるd across the 国境 from the Turkish town of Akcakle.
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For the YPG, 掴むing Tel Abyad would help them link up Kurdish-controlled areas in Hasaka 州 and Kobani.
The 拡大 of Kurdish 影響（力） in Syria 近づく the 国境 with Turkey is a 関心 for Ankara, which has long been worried about 分離主義 の中で its own Kurdish 全住民.
The Turkish 当局 have の近くにd Akcakale to 乗り物s and it has been months since they 許すd anyone to cross from Tel Abyad into Turkey. However, Turkey still 許すs people with a valid パスポート to cross into Syria from Akcakle.
The Turkish 軍の has dug ざん壕s in the 国境 area.
With the help of U.S.-led 空気／公表する strikes, the YPG fended off an Islamic 明言する／公表する attack on the 国境 town of Kobani, or Ayn al-Arab, in January. Since then, the YPG has 現れるd as the most 重要な partner on the ground in Syria for the U.S.-led 同盟 that is trying to roll 支援する Islamic 明言する／公表する.
Washington has 支配するd out the idea of partnering with 大統領 Bashar al-Assad, who last month lost the city of Palmyra in central Syria to Islamic 明言する／公表する -- the first time the jihadists 掴むd a city 直接／まっすぐに from 政府 支配（する）／統制する.
Turkish 大統領 Tayyip Erd ogan on Thursday （刑事）被告 the West of 爆破 Arabs and Turkmens in Syria while supporting Kurdish "テロリスト" groups he said were filling the 無効の left behind.
Xelil said: "The help of the 同盟 軍隊s has been very 効果的な and 正確な in its 的 選択."
The YPG is (v)提携させる(n)支部，加入者d to the 無法者d Kurdistan 労働者s Party (PKK) which has fought a １０年間s-long 暴動 against the Turkish 明言する／公表する. The PKK is considered a テロリスト group by Ankara, the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs and European Union. (付加 報告（する）／憶測ing by Humeyra Pamuk and Seyhmus Cakan in Turkey; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
