“Damascus left the region to the PYD both to deploy its troops in the center of the country due to the clashes with the free Syrian army (FSA) and to intimidate Turkey,” the sources have told the daily.

The sources, whom the daily did not disclose to which group or party they are linked, said Kurdish groups are controlling three districts of Syria and the Kurds have begun mobilizing to get the best position in the likely post- al- Assad period.

The sources surd they are closely monitoring whether the PYD acts with other groups or not, but they gave no further detail of how are they doing it.

Turkey fears that increasing violence in Syria would push Kurds in the country to declare an autonomous region in the north on the Turkish border.

Meanwhile Dogan news agency reported on Tuesday that Turkish military has deployed troops to the frontier from Nusaybin, in Sanliurfa province.

Turkey had already deployed surface-to-air missiles on the border after a jet of Ankara was downed by Syria on June 22.