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Turkey’s tests of wills in northern Syria
[Rudaw] President Erdogan’s heightened rhetoric over northeastern Syria during the last two weeks indicates The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
intends to invade the area soon. On Sunday Mr. Erdogan said: "We entered Afrin, Jarablus, al-Bab. Now we will enter the (area) east of the Euphrates. We shared this (information) with Russia and the US. As long as harassment fire continues, we cannot remain silent."

Despite Turkish propaganda to the contrary, the Turkish-Syria border in the northeast of Syria remains a good deal calmer and violence free than the Gaza-Israel or Lebanon-Israel border. What Turkey actually wants in the area is therefore not a safe zone but the complete elimination of the Kurdish-led de facto autonomous cantons and a place to resettle the 3.6 million Syrian refugees currently in Turkey.
According to the Daily Sabah: "The Ottoman Turkish military has recently increased its deployment near the Syrian border, including heavy weaponry, armored vehicles and tanks, as it prepares for an imminent offensive against the PKK terror group’s Syrian branch the People’s Protection Units (YPG)."
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-08-07
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