Tag: Kurds
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Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan says that he hopes Syrian rebels arrive to Damascus
In an interview with Turkish media Canli 24, Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said that he hoped the Syrian rebels arrive to Homs and Damascus without any problems. He also added that he asked Bashar al-Assad to together decide the future of Syria but did not receive a positive response. Turkey is currently occupying border areas…
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Syrian rebel offensive stops at Hama: Christians continue with their daily lives in Aleppo and the US strikes the IRGC
The Syrian rebel offensive has been halted at the city of Hama but clashes against the Syrian Army are ongoing. Syrian rebels are also taking up arms in other parts of Syria including in the south in Daraa. Russia responded as it typically does in retaliation to Syrian rebels by conducting airstrikes against hospitals having…
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Kurds and Pro-Turkish Syrian rebels began clashing: both sides make territorial gains against the Syrian government
The Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces have begun clashing against the pro-Turkish Syrian rebels, Tahrir al-Sham (HST) in the north of Aleppo city. Clashes between Kurdish forces and Syrian rebels have also been reported in the countryside north to Aleppo where both the SDF and the Syrian rebels are making territorial gains against the Syrian government.…
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Kurdish forces take over Kurdish neighbourhood in Aleppo: Syrian rebels ask them to leave
The Kurds controlling the northeast of Syria are not welcoming the Syrian rebellion that started this week and are accusing the rebels of being Turkish Islamist proxies that extend and and fight for Turkish interests. Kurdish troops from the Syrian Defense Forces arrived yesterday evening in the north of Aleppo to provide security for Kurdish…
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Turkey bombs Kurdish cities in Syria after unclaimed terrorist attack in Ankara
Turkey has bombed multiple civilian targets in the Kurdish region of northern Syria including a prison, shops and bakeries, oil facilities and power stations. At least six Kurdish civilians were reported killed in the attacks across cities and towns including Kobane, Qamishlo, Qahtaniye, Rmelan and Qahtaniye. The terrorist attack occurred earlier during the day at…
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ISIS militants spotted fighting alongside Turkish troops in Afrin, Syria
A Kurdish journalist filmed a group of ISIS militants fighting alongside Turkish troops in Afrin, Syria. Afrin and other parts of northern Syria are occupied by the Turkish Army and their proxy group the Syrian National Army. The ISIS militants were reported to have been released from prison in Afrin. Last month, ISIS conducted a…
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Erdogan is trying to overturn his electoral defeat in Kurdish cities with the military and the police
Erdogan’s ruling AKP Party is attempting to overturn his electoral defeat in several Kurdish cities in the East of Turkey by appointing mayors and candidates from the AKP who lost the election, instead of allowing the electoral winners to take office. Police brutality has been reported in the cities were this authoritarian takeover is ongoing…
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US forces began discussions with the Iraqi government to withdraw from Iraq
After Iraq’s Prime Minister called for the US forces in Iraq to leave the country, the White House is actually in discussions with the Iraqi government to leave Iraq, including the northern Kurdish region. These discussions of the US’s forces withdrawal come during the same time that Iranian militant proxies are targeting US forces and…
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What has the West given Turkey in exchange for Sweden’s NATO membership?
More on the developing absurdities of international relations in the West. Turkey is on track with warming up to the enemies of the West after having held Sweden’s membership to NATO hostage. Despite, the Turkish parliament’s approval of Sweden’s NATO membership, the decree still has to be signed by President Erdogan and he still has…
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Turkey bombs civillian infrastructure in Kobani and northern Syria
Turkey is continuing its bombing campaign in northern Syria against Kurdish civilian infrastructure. These bombings started with a degree of intensity after the October 7th. In the past 24 hours, Turkey bombed a wheat plant, a power station, and a French-owned cement factory (Lafarge) in Kobani in the north of Syria. Firefighters taking out the…
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The PKK attacks a Turkish base in northern Iraq (Kurdistan)
Yesterday night, the PKK launched an attack on a Turkish base in northern Iraq killing 12 Turkish soldiers. Turkey has several illegal bases in northern Iraq that are meant to be used against the Kurds in the region. The Kurds in northern Iraq, actually called Kurdistan, also have a degree of autonomy and their own…
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Bombing Syria under the cover of Gaza
While everybody has been fixated on Gaza, Turkey’s Sultan and new Ottoman Emperor Tayyip Erdogan is taking the opportunity to expand Turkish settlements in the North-East of Syria along with continuous bombing and military campaigns against Kurds in the area. Turkey has been fighting a war in the northeast of Syria against the Kurds since…
