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2019-12-23 The Grand Turk
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Has Turkey abandoned Syrians in Idlib?
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[Jpost] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
’s pro-government media has stories about new submarines and Turkey leading the world in hair transplants, concerns about Libya and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir . The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, but not much news on a massive Syrian regime offensive in Idlib that could lead to a million refugees fleeing. Already 25,000 have fled.
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Turkey was supposedly an ally of the Syrian opposition who have been protesting the Assad regime since 2011. Turkey even enabled the Syrian National Army, a collection of Syrian rebel groups Turkey recruited, to transit through Turkey to fight the mostly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Now the families of those Syrian rebels are being bombed in Idlib as winter sets in. There are fuel shortages. People are fleeing. And yet Turkey’s observation posts, of which there are a dozen or so in Idlib, look on and do nothing.
Ankara’s silence ‐ while Turkey’s leadership flew off to Malaysia for an Islamic summit and prepares to discuss a military offensive in Libya with Russia, as well as a new Caucuses region trilateral meeting ‐ illustrates Ankara’s real goals. Ankara doesn’t mind if Idlib is retaken by the Russian-backed Syrian regime. Turkey needs good relations with Russia and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
for other reasons and it is Russia and Iran backing the Syrian regime in the Idlib offensive.
For Turkey, the priority has never been Syrian rebels. They were used for Turkey’s own ends, with tens of thousands recruited to fight against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units in Idlib in 2018 and then sent to fight Kurds near Tel Abyad in October 2019 as the US withdrew from parts of northern Syria. The Syrian rebels are being sent from place to place by Turkey, but when it comes to their own homes in Syria, there is little interest in aiding them. Turkey has a plan to resettle Syrian refugees, of which it hosts around four million, in Kurdish areas of northern Syria. The refugees are mostly Arabs and Kurds see this as demographic change.
It’s convenient for Ankara’s government which views the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) as its primary threat. It wants to move Arab families who fled other areas of Syria to create a contiguous belt of pro-Ottoman Turkish Syrian rebels from Afrin to Tel Abyad, all of whom are dependent on new Ottoman Turkish institutions that are rising, such as hospitals, local councils and education systems. Idlib province is not a priority.
IDLIB IS NOT A priority, despite the million people there, because it is partly run by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
 ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
and other bully boy and rebel groups who are not under Turkey’s real control. Unlike Afrin, Jarabulus and Tel Abyad, where Turkey launched offensives since 2016, Idlib is the last actual Syrian rebel stronghold. When it falls or when part of it falls those remaining groups will be forced to flee toward Afrin and Ottoman Turkish control. That will cement a situation where the areas near the border are free from air strikes due to a Ottoman Turkish-Russian agreement. Up until now the Russian air force has bombed where it wants in Idlib. A September agreement between Turkey and Russia stalled a Syrian offensive. But Syrian wants parts of Idlib back.
Rooters says that 20 villages have already been retaken by the Syrian army; 500,000 people have already fled in this year’s fighting and 80,000 have fled in the past week.
Asharq al-Awsat and other regional media have wondered about what is happening in Idlib and how it is linked to Turkey’s other policies in the region; it may be closely related to Turkey seeking to send forces to Libya.
Turkey’s parliament has approved a security and military cooperation deal with the Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
-based Government of the National Accord in Libya. Libya is in the midst of a civil war. The western and central part of Libya are controlled by the Libyan National Army of Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
, backed by Russia, Egypt and the UAE among others. Turkey and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
back the GNA in Tripoli.
Germany and others want to mediate. Turkey and Russia prefer their own agreement, like in northern Syria, where they can partition up matters and displace the western role. Turkey has sent armored vehicles and drones to Libya and a Ottoman Turkish crew of a boat was detained on Saturday off the coast.
Turkey also wants drilling rights and has signed a deal with the weak Libyan Tripoli government to secure rights to drilling. This angers Greece which sent officials to Egypt, the Gulf and Libya, concerned about a Ottoman Turkish water-grab across the Mediterranean. Turkey has sent drones to northern Cyprus and harassed an Israeli scientific mission at sea.
All this points to Turkey wanting to play a major global role and Idlib is a distraction. Turkey wants to iron out a new gold dinar trade with Qatar, Iran and Malaysia and it wants to control the Mediterranean and build up bases in Qatar, Somalia and maybe Libya and beyond.
Syria is in Turkey’s backyard, but enabling part of Idlib to fall in exchange for big agreements with Russia over pipelines and air defense and Libya is a worthwhile trade-off for Ankara.
For the Syrian rebels this is bad news, they may realize that their homes in Idlib have been traded for Ankara’s work with Moscow. They have fuel shortages in Idlib just a few kilometers from the Ottoman Turkish border, but Turkey is more interested in energy rights hundreds of kilometers away closer to Libya.
More of them may be sent to fight the SDF or other wars for Turkey. But Idlib will continue to pay the price of Ankara’s global dreams. 
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