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Turkey is once again using threatening language after the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) scheduled local elections for 11 June in the territories under its control. Ankara said it is “closely following the aggressive actions by the terrorist organisation against the territorial integrity of our country and of Syria under the pretext of an election,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared on 30 May. “Turkey will never allow the separatist organisation to establish (a state) just beyond its southern borders in the north of Syria and Iraq,” he said, claimin…