Turkey's occupation of Syria, Oct.2019: The 120-hours of bogus ceasefire brokered by Mike Pence in Ankara has ended. It wasn't worth a few pence!

Syrian-Kurdish town of Ras al-Ayn near Turkish border on October 16, 2019.  Image from Vox via Getty Images.

Did you know that the secret international code for occupation is "safe zone"?

The goal isn't confronting "Kurdish fighters,"  it's ethnic cleansing of northeastern Syria close to the Turkish borders.  While Vladimir Putin is widely known to be a close ally of the Syrian government, he gladly agrees to Turkey's occupation of northeastern Syria, to be controlled by Turkey and Russia as a "safe zone."   Suddenly with a bit of fodder from the Oval Office, the restive Tayyip is back to destruction.

Already scores (if not hundreds) of Kurdish civilians (not fighters) have been brutally murdered by FSA terrorists (so called "Free Syrian Army) who have worked as the subordinates of various AQ factions infiltrating into Syria for the last eight years, including Al-Nusra and ISIS.   In Turkey's latest incursion inside Northeast Syria, FSA is working alongside Turkish forces.  As usual, the international cabal is perfectly comfortable with FSA and all of its grisly war crimes. 

Turkey's war crimes inside Syrian border restarted on October 9, 2019 after a break since Obama's departure. Soon after, 34-year-old Syrian-Kurd politician, Hevrin Khalaf, was brutally executed by FSA terrorists working with Turkey.  She was pulled out of the car by her hair with such savage force that part of her scalp came off with her hair. She was beaten viciously and her entire body riddled with bullets.   She was not a Kurdish fighter, just a politician.  Yet the world won't recognize the incident as a war crime.

Civilian exodus of Kurdish families October 10 following start of Turkish invasion of northeast Syria.  Image source France24. 

Civilians fleeing Turk invasion Oct.10.  Image source EurActiv

NO ONE DESERVES SUCH SENSELESS DISPLACEMENTS.

In a nutshell, there are two chief causes why Tayyip again needs to spill substantial blood of civilians. First, he is hellishly eager to remake the demographics of northeastern Syria, chasing out the indigenous Kurds and having the region re-populated by FSA fighters, their supporters and families.  Despite pretending otherwise, POTUS is discreetly nervous of Erdogan's unpredictable "tough guy" mindset and also too sluggish to put down his foot (other than a bogus declaration of "sanctions on Turkey"). That was evident from the phony meeting between Pense and Erdogan in Ankara mid October followed by a statement from top Congressional Democrats on October 16 that read "President Erdogan has given up nothing, and President Trump has given him everything." The sham 120 hours of "ceasefire" is over and with Vladimir 'Ras'Putin by his side, Tayyip Erdogan can hardly wait to resume the bloodbath. Secondly, Erdogan is in dire need to create an external enemy to strengthen his AK Parti after its very poor performance in the recent regional elections.   Painting the entire Kurdish belt in Northeastern Syria as a threat to Turkey with bombardment and occupation will once again reconstruct the Tayyip's image as a brave defender of his country in the minds of the naive Turks.

Tayyip Erdogan is mimicking some terribly savage and remorseless tactics of criminal entities like New Delhi, TelAviv, Myanmar adamantly pushing the agenda of ethnic cleansing and endless splashing of blood.  Lost in a frenzy of similar bloodied ambitions, Tayyip forgets the Ottomans NEVER behaved like this.

US forces, the time-serving cowardly killers, fleeing northeast Syria ahead of Turkish invasion, clearing the path for the next round of war crimes and blood splashing.  Image source Military Times