The German Foreign Minister Analena Burbok warns Turkey of the possibility of an escalation of its conflict with Kurdish forces in northern Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

A Turkish war against the Kurds in Syria “should not take place”Analena Berbock told the Deutschlandfunk radio network.

“It wouldn’t help anyone”if the jihadist organization Islamic State “benefited from the conflict” between Turkey and the Kurds, he said adding that “it would be dangerous for the security of Syria, but also for Turkey, for us, for Europe.”

Since the fall of the al-Assad regime on December 8, Ankara supports an attack by armed pro-Turkish militias against Kurdish forces who control part of northern Syria.

Ankara considers the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and its core People’s Protection Units a wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

“The Syrian Democratic Forces are critical to preventing the resurgence of the Islamic State in Syria”the US Secretary of State had stated in mid-December Anthony Blinken.

The German foreign minister recalled that the Kurds pushed back “Islamic State terrorists” that they committed “terrible massacres” in Syria.

The current situation “it should not be used to drive out the Kurds again, to create a new cycle of violence”insisted Analena Burbok.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced that clashes took place yesterday between pro-Turkish forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces in the area of ​​the Tihrin Dam on the Euphrates.

The Observatory talked about him death of a woman and her child “during the artillery bombardment of pro-Turkish forces” in the district of Kobani in northern Syria.