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  • 2019-10-17 (xsd:date)
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  • it also states some of the abuses by the Syrian government and "non-state actors" in the country "amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity."Moreover (en)
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  • On October 11, the Turkish military along with their allies in the Turkish Free Syrian Army (now called the Syrian National Army) invaded northeastern Syria as part of what they call Operation Peace Spring. The stated aim of Turkey was to create a 30-kilometer buffer zone in the north of the country, pushing out the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), led by the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which Turkey considers to be part of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK). The PKK is officially recognized as a terrorist group in Turkey and has also been so recognized by a number of other countries including the U.S. The PYD, along with its armed wing the YPG/YPJ, were founded by the PKK and they express support for the jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. The U.S. intelligence community, in its 2018 and 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessments, described the PYD’s armed wing as the PKK’s militia force in Syria. However, there is debate as to the level of operational involvement the YPG/YPJ have with PKK activities in Turkey. SYRIA -- Turkish forces advance towards Manbij, October 14, 2019In an interview with the Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency, the head of the Turkish Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Volkan Bozkir said that Turkey’s objective in Syria was to ensure our border security" and "neutralize terrorists." He accused the Kurdish PYD of "oppression and cruelty" toward the people living in their territory.While the PYD has certainly been credibly accused of human rights abuses (en)
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