October 17, 2019
The US and Turkey agreed on a temporary ceasefire in northeastern Syria for 120 hours to allow the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) to withdraw from the border area.
BUT this ceasefire is meaningless unless you know what happened during the days just prior.
October 13, 2019
An agreement was made between representatives of the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led forces.
Under the agreement, the Syrian Army would move into Kurdish-held territory from three directions:
* From Tabqa towards Ayn Issa and its countryside and towards the Syrian-Turkish border at Tell Abyad and then towards the west.
* From Manbij towards Ayn al Arab on the Syrian-Turkish border to Tell Abyad and then towards the west.
* From Hasakah to Ras al-Ayn then heading east to Qamishli and then to al-Malikiyah and heading south.
* The Syrian Army will then spread in the Manbij region, starting from Arima.
In the agreement, leaders of the Kurdish-led forces confirmed that they are prepared to preserve the territorial unity of Syria and under Syria's official flag.
October 14, 2019
Units of the Syrian Army began entering areas controlled by the Kurdish-led forces as per the agreement.
October 15, 16, 17, 2019
The Syrian Army continued its deployment in northeastern Syria, which began on October 13, according to the terms of the agreement made with Kurdish-led forces. The Syrian Army deployed to several towns in the northwestern countryside of al-Hasakah province and then continued with deployment.
The Kurdish-led forces handed over the Kobane border crossing with Turkey to the Syrian Army on October 16. The Syrian flag was raised over the crossing and Syria's army fully deployed inside of it. This was important because of the large civilian population living in this region.
The US and Turkey agreed on a temporary ceasefire in northeastern Syria for 120 hours to allow the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) to withdraw from the border area.
BUT this ceasefire is meaningless unless you know what happened during the days just prior.
October 13, 2019
An agreement was made between representatives of the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led forces.
Under the agreement, the Syrian Army would move into Kurdish-held territory from three directions:
* From Tabqa towards Ayn Issa and its countryside and towards the Syrian-Turkish border at Tell Abyad and then towards the west.
* From Manbij towards Ayn al Arab on the Syrian-Turkish border to Tell Abyad and then towards the west.
* From Hasakah to Ras al-Ayn then heading east to Qamishli and then to al-Malikiyah and heading south.
* The Syrian Army will then spread in the Manbij region, starting from Arima.
In the agreement, leaders of the Kurdish-led forces confirmed that they are prepared to preserve the territorial unity of Syria and under Syria's official flag.
October 14, 2019
Units of the Syrian Army began entering areas controlled by the Kurdish-led forces as per the agreement.
October 15, 16, 17, 2019
The Syrian Army continued its deployment in northeastern Syria, which began on October 13, according to the terms of the agreement made with Kurdish-led forces. The Syrian Army deployed to several towns in the northwestern countryside of al-Hasakah province and then continued with deployment.
The Kurdish-led forces handed over the Kobane border crossing with Turkey to the Syrian Army on October 16. The Syrian flag was raised over the crossing and Syria's army fully deployed inside of it. This was important because of the large civilian population living in this region.
As soon as Kurdish forces began infiltrating northeastern Syria, they began massacring the Christian villages and taking the land as their own.
“...The PYD/YPG is threatening Syriacs and still forcibly detaining some children to join them... the terrorist PYD/YPG fought other terrorist groups only to pursue its own territorial aims... The aim of the PYD/YPG in its struggle against Daesh was to seize their territories and integrate them as part of the autonomous Kurdish region envisaged by them. The U.S. had enlisted the PYD/YPG to fight Daesh, while Turkey objected that using one terror group to fight another makes no sense. ...the PYD/YPG and Daesh are both terror groups, differing only in aims, and sometimes even working together. For example, the PYD/YPG signed an agreement with Daesh [and] the PYD/YPG took former Daesh members with them.”(1)
"[The] Kurds of Iraqi 'Kurdistan' have enshrined the Sharia. It considers the principles of Islamic Sharia as one of the main sources of legislation… It is not allowed to enact a law inconsistent with the provisions of the fundamentals of Islam." (2)
If the Kurds are allowed to continue taking land from the Syrian people, they will enforce Islamic Law in their attempt to create an Islamic Kurdistan inside Syria.
"[The] Kurds of Iraqi 'Kurdistan' have enshrined the Sharia. It considers the principles of Islamic Sharia as one of the main sources of legislation… It is not allowed to enact a law inconsistent with the provisions of the fundamentals of Islam." (2)
If the Kurds are allowed to continue taking land from the Syrian people, they will enforce Islamic Law in their attempt to create an Islamic Kurdistan inside Syria.
As Kurdish forces began infiltrating northeast Syria from Iraq, there was a deliberate displacement of thousands of civilians and the razing of entire villages in areas under the control of the Kurdish-led forces.(3)
The Kurds deliberately demolished civilian homes, razed and burned entire villages, displaced inhabitants with no justifiable military grounds. They took the land for themselves.(3) |
The agreement made between the Kurdish-led forces and the Syrian government was finalized on October 13 after the US-led coalition abandoned Kurdish forces in face of Turkey’s "Operation Peace Spring" and a Turkish shelling of a US military garrison near Kobani. Turkey considers the Kurdish-led forces to be terrorists. The US would have had to fight the Turks on behalf of the Kurds--a large part of whom indeed belong to the terrorist YPG and affiliate terror groups.
The Syrian Army will be deployed along the Turkish border and its presence will guarantee Syrian territorial integrity.
The Syrian Army does not want the start of a war with Turkey on behalf of the Kurdish-led SDF forces. The best strategy therefore is to block directions of possible Turkish-led advance.
The Syrian Army will be deployed along the Turkish border and its presence will guarantee Syrian territorial integrity.
The Syrian Army does not want the start of a war with Turkey on behalf of the Kurdish-led SDF forces. The best strategy therefore is to block directions of possible Turkish-led advance.
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1. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/-syrian-ypg-pkk-kidnaps-forces-children-to-join-them/1608901
2. https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/dont-romanticize-kurds-andrew-bostom/?fbclid=IwAR2MYJ_E3c21lwQILVhHSmFpcFZKh_jge5rqXEoJ9cIXdsQCX2auUqQIoi0
3. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/10/syria-us-allys-razing-of-villages-amounts-to-war-crimes/
1. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/-syrian-ypg-pkk-kidnaps-forces-children-to-join-them/1608901
2. https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/dont-romanticize-kurds-andrew-bostom/?fbclid=IwAR2MYJ_E3c21lwQILVhHSmFpcFZKh_jge5rqXEoJ9cIXdsQCX2auUqQIoi0
3. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/10/syria-us-allys-razing-of-villages-amounts-to-war-crimes/