Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan launched a brutal assault on the Kurdish majority Syrian region of Afrin on Saturday. Dubbed “Operation Olive Branch,” the Turkish government insists it is cleaning out the area of Kurdish “Terrorists.”
Afrin is controlled by the Kurdish dominated SDF and trained and armed by the US government to defeat ISIS and offer an alternative leadership to the Assad regime. Erdogan has a nasty habit of claiming and suspecting every Kurd of being a terrorist.
The truth is, Erdogan and his own family funded and aided ISIS for the past few years in order to sow chaos in Syria and Iraq. The project worked until more and more countries figured out that Turkey itself was behind the rise of the Sunni Jihadists. Why would Erdogan fund ISIS? Turkey has always wanted to regain its former stature and what better way to do that than createenough chaos that it would be forced to go in and stablize it. Now that Erdogan and the Turkish government has been forced out of that strategy by Russia, Iran, and even the US, it has decided to use the chaos to go after a new terrorist entity…the Kurds.
For Erdogan everyone else is the terrorist. However, in the first 24 hours of his attacking Afrin, over 20 civilians have been killed with most being chilldren, including 8 members of the same family. Keep in mind, Erdogan has ordered the Turkish army into Afrin, the SDF has not entered into Turkey. So who is the real terrorist?
Turkey has launched a military operation against YPG-controlled northern Syria’s Afrin.
Erdogan’s so-called “war on terror” has already killed 20 civilians and wounded many.
From Aleppo, Manbij, eastern Ghouta to Afrin, we can end the war.#AfrinUnderAttack #JournalistsAgainstWar pic.twitter.com/YdAYz91qCS— The Region (@TheRegionOrg) January 22, 2018