Turkey announced Monday that they are continuing to intensify their invasion of the Afrin District in northern Syria, a district held by the Kurdish YPG. Turkey began shelling the area on Friday, and invaded over the weekend.
Fighting raged throughout Monday, with the Kurdish YPG reporting that they’d retaken strategic areas they’d lost earlier in the fight. Turkey also confirmed their first soldier to have been killed in the fighting.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported 54 killed overall in the fighting, including 19 Turkish-backed fighters, 26 Kurds, and a number of unidentified people. They also reported 22 civilians killed, though Turkey’s Foreign Ministry dismissed those as Kurdish lies.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey remains determined to take Afrin from the Kurds, saying there is “no turning back” now that the invasion has started, while other officials said they expect a quick victory in the fight.
Oh, the invasion is intensifying and not turning back is it?
Translation: His Sultanship Erratic Erdogan the Impatient moved to soon with too short a shock and awe air campaign and already his spearhead force is roasting in a cauldron.
Source: Pocket (military) – The Wiki.
Probably not yet, if ever; the Turks aren’t that easy, but still we’ve seen this before, in Ukraine.
Your Kurd propaganda is funny. Sorry, Turkey can’t lose this. Kurds are lousy fighters who can only do something when backed by U.S. taxpayers’ money, weapons, and bomb planes. It is inevitable that Turkey wins. Then you can join the neocons in crying about how the Kurds don’t get to steal more land to help destabilize Iraq and Syria on their master Israel’s behalf.
You do know that Erdogan is a Sunni Muslim and he was a major source of income for ISIS because he bought stolen Syrian oil from them, he supplied them with a route to smuggle fighters and weapons through, hence the Russian jet that Turkey shot down for infringing on that route, and is only looking to create a buffer zone full of Sunni Muslims to offset the Assad’s and Irans Shiite Muslim influence on it’s borders. Attacking the Kurds is a guise for Turkey to ethnically cleanse it’s borders, install a bunch of Sunni Muslims that want nothing more than to remove Assad. In future he can use those Sunni Muslims as a reason to invade Syria under the ole “I’ll protect my fellow Turks from oppression and aggression anywhere mantra”. This is the new normal it worked in Ukraine so now it’s being used on borders inother nations. I know Assad can’t be happy after defeating ISIS only to have the equivalent of ISIS on it’s borders with Erdogans support and Russia unwilling to stand up for there sovereignty. It makes NATO look more powerful in Syria than Russia because Putin’s allowing his client states sovereignty to be invaded, dissected, and gobbled up, America, Russia, Erdogan is not your friend.
YPG are idiots. By insisting on fighting west of the Euphrates, they are only ensuring their own painful deaths, because like you said, they have zero chance against the Turks.
I sympathize with the people who own their land by ancestry. Its the only real evidence of what some might call God-given or natural law. The Kurds like the Palestinians do have such rights.
Notice the words and context actually written: “… the Turks aren’t that easy [to beat]”. Yet we’ve seen how the Novorussians cauldroned the Nazified Ukraine military and its militias repeatedly. Unlike Team Obama, Team Trump is far better at learning from and adapting to its opponents.
The fortunes of a modern professional military (like Turkey’s) more often then not turns on the quality of the political leadership. His Sultanship Erratic Erdogan the Impatient has a very inconsistent record of success beyond his own personal aggrandizement and survival.
The Germans may have invented the modern cauldron, but the Russians perfected it roasting the Germans in WWII. The Russians are said to have warned Erdogan ahead of time of the American-sanctioned coup. If they wish, they can also help him avoid military fiasco. A unitary Turkey is in Eurasian best interests, not an ever-expanding American-Israeli Kurdistan.
The anglo-Zionist dream of redrawing the map of the Middle East back in its favour requires dismembering Turkey (and a number of other countries), and Kurds seem to be tapped as the chosen (more like hoodwinked and drafted) successor in chaos to the Islamic State.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights = two man office in London.