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The Grand Turk
Turkey says nearly 300,000 Syrians return home after military operations
2018-12-23
[Ynet] Nearly 300,000 Syrians have returned to their country after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's two cross-border operations in northern Syria, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu was quoted as saying on Saturday.

Turkey has carried out two operations, dubbed "Euphrates Shield" and "Olive Branch", against Kurdish YPG militia and Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 in northern Syria. Ankara regards the US-backed YPG as a terrorist organization.
I’m afraid I do not see any cause and effect here. But that 300,000 Syrians felt safer in Syria than in Turkey is certainly a significant change, regardless of the reason.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Alternatively... Turkey depopulates areas of pesky Kurds, such as the Afrin area, and repopulates it with more tractable residents. This is an old, old Ottoman Empire tactic -- the *old* residents want to kill the new settlers who are forced to become loyalists to the Sultan in self-defense.
Posted by: magpie   2018-12-23 20:29  

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