Denis Macshane Turkey is the biggest threat to Europe today, and the Greeks need help Independent Premium Peter Stubley Turkish-backed militias raping and torturing Kurds in Syria, UN finds The region makes up more than a quarter of the entire country and is the largest area outside of the control of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and his allies. Turkey is attempting to repeat across northern Syria what they accomplished in Afrin during the Olive Branch operation. And that means only one thing.
I feel really comfortable with that. And we spoke to Father David Smith, a Sydney Anglican priest who this year travelled to Syria on a humanitarian mission. Are Kurds to be given the same uber-rights that Zionists have? Actually, we saw it near al-Bab and in Afrin. Erdogan’s cunning plan or about a new turn in the Syrian conflict. “As far as North Korea, I don’t know much about North Korea.
Turkey has drawn out a detailed plan for resettling two million Syrian refugees in the safe zone and many are concerned that once these Turkish loyalists have resettled on Turkey’s border, Ankara will claim ownership on Syria’s northern region. Turkey send here green buses with one goal – to integrate FSA groups around itself, and force them to fulfill their orders. 6. But for the media, it was Charlottesville all over again. It is only a propaganda. nor “our record of human rights abuses”, either, referring to the United States. In March 2011, the American version of Vogue magazine ran a long, glowing profile of Asma al-Assad. 3/ The YPG and SDF immediately lay down their arms and agree to work with the LEGITIMATE government of Syria. Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister, Faisal Al Miqdad. So the people have not been protesting against hard-line Islamists, as happened in other countries which participated in the Arab Spring uprisings. So I’m involved with four or five different gun safety groups.

18. There is a growing confusion over the situation in the north-east of Syria – Turkey, a NATO member state, is de facto challenging other NATO member states by attacking a U.S proxy force occupying the region. The beginning of the Turkish operation can be expected from day to day. The majority of the indigenous lands of the Kurdish peoples, the Kurdistan Mountains is actually in Iran and not Turkey. “The thing is,” he said, “if we lose this vote, it will drive a stake through the heart of neoconservatism — everyone will see they have no votes.” Of course, a lot of innocent Syrian civilian men, women, and children had to die painful deaths in order to prove that point against those oh-so-terrible neocons. The death toll in the war is now said to be well over 100,000. As Dr Shanahan explains, the FSA never existed before that. All the scenes that played out at the hands of ISIS in north Syria and Iraq in the past 7 years; they are nothing in comparison to what Kurdish militias did to the local inhabitants, men, women and children, at the time. Literally. In his memoir, Rhodes wrote that in August 2013, after Bashar al-Assad killed hundreds of civilians with chemical weapons, Obama was comfortable if Congress wouldn’t approve the use of force in response. Syria resembles an expensive and endless serial. What attracted Turks to the NATO alliance was the relative closeness of the Soviet Union and the notion that NATO would help ensure a bulwark against Godless Communism. But he’s praying. The Assad family has held power in Syria since 1971. Turkey’s plan includes establishing 140 villages, 10 towns, a Turkish university with three faculties including an Islamic Sciences faculty in Azaz, an Education Faculty in Afrin and an Economics and Administrative Sciences faculty in Al Bab. SYRIA is messy, violent and almost impossible to understand. I’ve ripped plenty of bad sequels over the years; now I get to see if I can get the formula right.

If John Roberts Isn’t A Conservative, What Is He, Exactly? It’s my right. As far as the Ukraine situation, I don’t know much about the Ukraine situation. It’s going to be great. All I’m saying is that the Kurdish groups of SDF and YPG and such are untrustworthy and opportunistic, and have made their proverbial bed; the problem in this equation is the more than 800,000 Syrian nationals who are caught in this crossfire in North Easter portion of Syria.

Tell me honestly, did anyone believe in the summer of 2015 that most of the country would again be controlled by the legitimate government? You might think it’s the brave rebels versus the evil dictatorial regime, and that’s part of the story.

“The militias were a combination of local area tribal groups, deserters from the military [who had been conscripted despite holding anti-government beliefs] and disaffected locals.”. 12. But there is one area reaping the benefits: tourism. This is a messy, cruel war where neither side has much regard for civilian casualties. Turkey understand it and now they are making considerable efforts to solve this problem.

Does this mean that the Syrian army will take advantage of the situation and immediately hit its weakened enemy? The new agreement between the Kurds and the Syrian government is a major indication that U.S. influence in Syria is quickly waning and that its control over Northeastern Syria could soon be lost. Thus, the full exit of the Americans from Syria is not the immediate prospect. The Brussels-based Jewish Coalition for Kurdistan (JCFK) counts Dershowitz and Cotler among its pro-Israel members. It’s gonna be fast. In other words, no Iraq-style invasion or prolonged Western intervention. To date, this arrangement has not been put into practice.

In any case, if you are still a supporter of Kurdish separatism in Syria, one based on conquest by genocide, I offer one last point: Kurdish transferees and refugees in Syria represent less than 10% of the population of the country. Maybe the U.S. could persuade Erdogan with the message: “You’ve proved your point, the Kurds know you can beat them on the battlefield, now head to the negotiating table and let’s hammer out a deal that ensures your country’s security for the long term.”. Again, we’re fortunate in this country to have free speech. They drove out the Kurdish population and replaced them with Turkish aligned Syrian refugees, changing the demographics.

The possession of the largest oil field gives the American intelligence enormous opportunities. Judge for yourselves, the Americans participated in an attempt to overthrow the Turkish president in 2016. So in other words, you had genuine Syrian freedom fighters joined by people with their own Islamist agendas. ... live-and-let-live and skirmishes, depending on the current situation.