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…
It has begun. With one single directive to the Turkish forces, the Turkish ground forces stationed near Afrin have crossed into Syria and pushed the self destruct button on NATO as we know it. Reports out of Afrin are…
The Turkish army announced the beginning of “Operation Olive Branch” earlier today (Jan. 20th) and immediately started bombing the Kurdish dominated enclave of Afrin in an attempt to wipe out what they call “terrorists.” However, the Syrian Kurds make…
Turkey has always had a complex relationship with the rest of its NATO partners, ut during the current Erdogan period it has grown exceedingly problematic. With the weakening of US positions across he Middle East and Trump’s reliance on…
If Turkey did not want an independent Kurdistan, especially one united with West Kurdistan located in Syria, then their actions against the Kurdish enclave in Afrin have had the opposite effect. Consistent shelling of the YPG (Syrian Kurdish Militia)…