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Syria – Turkey Again Invades
So it begins:
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that a Turkish military operation into Syria has started.
Erdogan said on his official Twitter account Wednesday that the operation, named “Peace Spring,” has begun. He said the operation aims to eradicate “the threat of terror” against Turkey.
Earlier, Turkish television reports said Turkish jets had bombed Syrian Kurdish positions across the border from Turkey.
The plan is as we anticipated. A major goal is to interrupt the M4 highway that runs parallel to the border and allows for troop movements between the east and the west of the Kurdish majority areas. The highway is about 20-30 kilometers from the border. The sector Turkey is attacking right now has only a minority of Kurdish people amongst a majority of Arabs.
Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu – 11:34 UTC · Oct 8, 2019
How will Turkey conduct the operation in Syria?
• First phase: 120km area between Tal Abyad/Rasulayn, where US troops withdrew
• Airforce, drones/jets and howitzers will pound YPG targets
• Then Turkish Special Forces and Syrian National Army will enter
— Turkish reports
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Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu – 10:29 UTC · Oct 9, 2019
More Turkish operational plans in Syria
• First point of contact would be the Turkish/US security zone in Tal Abyad, Rasulayn
• Security pockets prioritised
• MAIN AIM is to cut Kobane – Hasakah road
• Combined Joint Op Center, (CJOC) to be used for de-confliction with US
There are two scenarios:
• If YPG withdraws from the immediate area between Tal Abyad, Rasulayn, Turkish military will just move in with Syrian National Army
• But If YPG has heavy presence, then howitzers and airforce first be used to destroy YPG posts, fortifications
The "Syrian National Army" is a 14,000 men strong ragtag gang of "Syrian rebels" and ISIS leftovers under Turkish command. The same people that are looting and killing Kurds in Afrin.
The stupidity of the Kurds to (again) allow a Turkish invasion in their areas when there is the clear alternative of submitting the rightful Syrian government is amazing. One of the YPG leaders said yesterday they were "considering" that move. Isn't it a bit late for that?
The YPG Kurds still have not recognized that they were simply used as mercenaries by the U.S. and that their usefulness expired. They still beg those who betrayed them for help:
Coordination & Military Ops Center – SDF @cmoc_sdf – 15:27 UTC · Oct 9, 2019
The #SDF showed good faith to the security mechanism agreement between the #US & #Turkey. This left our people defenseless. We ask the US & the @Coalition for a NO FLY ZONE to stop the attacks on innocent people.
@DeptofDefense @NATO @UN @EU_Commission @StateDept
The U.S. will surely consider that no fly zone. That will take considerable time. Meanwhile Turkish bombers will destroy more Syrian villages and cities.
This is a plea from the University of Rojava and Kobanê that is circulating amongst western ‘leftist’ groups. First, the pleas depiction of Rojava as a democratic oasis belies the ethnic cleansing of non-Kurds that has happened in the areas occupied by the YPG. Second, the plea is very tricky in resolving THE paradox, the Kurdish organizations alliance with ‘America’ which is the main external organizer of an alliance of countries (including Turkey) and terrorist organizations that destroyed Syria, killed thousands of civilians and sought to replace the secular Arab state with Al Nusra (Al Qaeda) terrorists. The authors of the plea must have forgotten the Emir of Qatar’s interview that specifically outlined how the regional countries Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey were allocated a division of labor (roles to play) in recruiting, arming, training, financing and providing PR to the jihadi terror groups with the direction, participation and approval of the head boss ‘America.’
The University of Rojava and Kobanê faculties plea resolves this paradox by not mentioning it and putting all the blame on an “evil” Turkey with Russia and ‘America’ (as great powers) green lighting the Turkish invasion of Syria. Russia which saved the Syrian state and protected it from being a failed-state jihadi haven like Libya is equated with ‘America’, the main organizer of the terror jihadi’s that recked chaos and destruction. The faculty do not mention their complicity with ‘America’ nor do they frame it as knife to the back (which it is). For these ‘complicate’ the picture and raise questions about their own actions and involvement in the occupation and attempted dismemberment of Syria and through that the subjugation of the middle east. I am sure many of you can see the reference to ‘identity politics’ themes (gender equality, diversity, on and on) in their plea that are clearly meant to resonate with Western audiences and it is this type of tightly written narrative that aims to recruit support amongst so-called liberals and ‘leftists’ in the West to the Wests’ imperial wars and occupations. Anyone who has visited Syria would witness the amicable relations amongst a religious and ethnic mosaic of peoples who exemplify a cosmopolitan culture that has deep roots and which is not based on liberal ideals nor on YPG-radical experimentations. You would never know this from reading their plea.
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For universities and associated academic and intellectual institutions
These eight years there has been a revolution taking place in Rojava/Northeast Syria, with gains in the areas of democracy, tolerance, a culture of fraternity of peoples, respect for diverse religions and beliefs, gender equality, and individual liberty, a unique example growing in the Middle East. Despite all the radicalism in the region, we can live together, and both support and accept each other. We in the university also want a democratic social order that can strengthen modern science.
We wanted to become a centre of enlightenment and revitalisation of universal moral and social values that humanity has gained over its long history, preparing for free and peace loving future generations. But unfortunately, our university in Rojava, which is a garden of democracy, finds itself under the boot of the armies of the Turkish state and their thugs.
You know that Turkey, for the entirety of the Syrian war, has supported ISIS, and their hand is found in every massacre which has been carried out against the people of Syria. Today Turkey is trying to breathe new life into the Caliphate of ISIS, which had been brought down thanks to the resistance of the people of this region, and this dark force has helped it to organise itself anew.
All the so-called opposition forces of Syria which have a fanatical and radical, the Turkish state embraces them, lets them grow, and supports them so they may be employed as tools of war for them. Most of them are former members of ISIS and al-Qaeda, and Turkey now provokes them and lets them loose against our democracy and our advances.
Doubtless, the ignoring of rights, the censorship of our views, mean the acceptance and approval, the green light of great states such as Russia and America. On behalf of all the states that seek to benefit, Turkey will again carry out a significant massacre against the peoples of the region.
If there is a great threat and danger upon us now, if Islamic radicalism can move forward and amass forces with ease, if Turkey can organise massacres and slaughter as the largest terrorist organisation in the world, it is our belief that a historical role and responsibility rests upon the intellectual and academic communities of the world.
After the massacres of the Holocaust that were committed by Hitler, Adorno, in criticising the lack of responsibility shouldered by the intellectual community of his time, said “Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric”.
Now too, in the particularity of Rojava, where the armies of Turkish fascism and Islamic radicalism have brought down every value and virtue of humanity, we hope that the scientific and intellectual community of the world will immediately take action against massacres such as those that have occurred in the Holocaust and in Şengal, which are still occurring, and will uphold their duties and responsibilities to humanity.
In this letter, we are writing to you so that you, among your own people, help resist against these armies which have tasked themselves with tearing down science and the work of the university, in the name of the defence of existence and honour.
Greetings on behalf of the administration and faculty of the University of Rojava and Kobanê
Posted by: Thirsty | Oct 11 2019 21:16 utc | 231
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