... The Kurdish militias have also caused the displacement of the Arab majority and some Kurds and Turkmens from areas between Hasakah and Raqqa, and the countryside of Ain... ... Al-Shuyukh too. It even transformed the names of Arab cities and towns and imposed on Syrian Arab citizens the sponsorship system in order to allow them into areas under... ... demographic change is taking place. Media even overlook the fact that the US backed the YPG, which caused a demographic change on the ground in the mentioned area.
... opportunity to have a significant long-term gain if the Turkish operation is successfully conducted
On August 4, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
declared in a speech
during an opening ceremony that Turkey will launch a military operation in Syria’s terrorist PKK/YPG-occupied eastern Euphrates region. After the official declaration of the upcoming operation, there occurred the question of “how will it affect the bilateral relations between Russia and Turkey?” There will be no negative repercussion of the operation ...
Interview with Michael Gunter and Kerim Has
During Press Briefing held on November 27, Press Secretary of the White House Sarah Sanders stated that the United States is now in a position to stop providing military equipment to certain opposition groups in Syria referring to Donald Trump’s phone call with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. According to the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Trump had “given clear instructions” that the Kurds (Kurdish People's Protection Units) will “receive no more weapons.” The Pentagon reiterated the claim announcing “pending adjustments to the military support provided to the Kurdish partners.”
Evgeniia Drozhashchikh, Rethinking Russia expert ...
