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The Grand Turk
Erdogan says that a safe zone has been established in northeastern Syria, adding that refugees in Turkey will be moved to the area
2019-10-16
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Declaring victory so he can go home, leaving all the paramilitaries behind him?

Posted by:Fred

#7  ABC News has video of safe zone, refugee camp. Trump not seen assisting Kurds.

Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-10-16 22:00  

#6  So this whole thing was just Yipyip's way of moving refugees out of his hair?
Establishing an excuse to annex northern Syria as a protectorate like the Republic of Northern Cyprus -- a (quote) country (unquote) that only Turkey recognizes.
Posted by: magpie   2019-10-16 18:29  

#5  Sounds better than letting the refugees go to Europe.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-10-16 14:21  

#4  So this whole thing was just Yipyip's way of moving refugees out of his hair? Lebensraum in a fez?
Posted by: Mercutio   2019-10-16 12:03  

#3  First I thought of forcible immigration, but the original article says - Erdogan wrote [in WSJ] that Syrian refugees in Turkey will be moved to the safe zone because “the international community missed its opportunity to prevent the Syrian crisis from pulling an entire region into a maelstrom of instability.”

Which sounds almost reasonable, if political. Alarabia article
Posted by: Bobby   2019-10-16 08:53  

#2  So Erdogan assumes the SAA will not attempt to drive them out? Interesting thought of Erdogan's that Assad will sit by while Turkey annexes a third (or more) of Syria.
Posted by: magpie   2019-10-16 03:25  

#1  How long to the Turks think the refugees will stay put when the Kurds bombard them to take back the land?
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Flusoling2728   2019-10-16 00:59  

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