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Long Thread on #Turkey|’s 🇹🇷 role in #NagornoKarabakh and what India 🇮🇳 has to learn from this new dimension of asymmetric warfare!
Turkey 🇹🇷 supported #Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 not just diplomatically (supported by diplomats) & logistically (sending mercenary forces as reported by Reuters) but also by selling #BayraktarTb2 drones tilting balance against #Armenia 🇦🇲
The drone in question is #BayraktarTB2, (Tactic Block) a Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) manufactured by Turkish company called #BaykarMakina
PC: Dailysabah
PC: Dailysabah
1/#Turkey had well established "soft power" lines of influence throughout the Greater #MiddleEast (North #Africa, Horn of Africa, Eastern #Mediterranean, etc.).
Truth is @James__Harkin got the basics right in terms of #Douma's "propaganda" value.
The ATTACK DID HAPPEN, Sarin wasn't used, but we'll have to wait for @OPCW to prove Chlorine or otherwise.
However, everything else around the attack was manufactured for maximum effect.
The ATTACK DID HAPPEN, Sarin wasn't used, but we'll have to wait for @OPCW to prove Chlorine or otherwise.
However, everything else around the attack was manufactured for maximum effect.
After almost 6 months of investigations, i can prove without a doubt that the #Douma Hospital scene was staged. No fatalities occurred in the hospital.
All the #WH, activists and people i spoke to are either in #Idlib or #EuphratesShield areas.
Only one person was in #Damascus.
All the #WH, activists and people i spoke to are either in #Idlib or #EuphratesShield areas.
Only one person was in #Damascus.
Amid #Assad regime offensive in south #Syria, worth bearing in mind its continued bombing of areas in #Idlib - also under a so-called “de-escalation zone.”
Having watched the southern zone dissolved w/o response from #Jordan or #Israel, #Turkey’s now warning #Idlib = “red line."
Having watched the southern zone dissolved w/o response from #Jordan or #Israel, #Turkey’s now warning #Idlib = “red line."
Thread about #SDF #Efrin's #IRGC/Regime Connection: #Katerji Group awarded "Oil Contract" in SDF areas.
So the #PYD/#YPG are about to lose #Manbij following yet another #US abandonment.
This would be a major loss of business tax revenue following the #Turkey takeover of #Efrin.
So the #PYD/#YPG are about to lose #Manbij following yet another #US abandonment.
This would be a major loss of business tax revenue following the #Turkey takeover of #Efrin.
Because of the war in #Aleppo, most small and medium-sized factories relocated to #Efrin & exported their product (mainly ready-wear & shoes) to regime and rebel areas. They paid lower taxes to the Democratic Autonomous Administration compared to official #Syria gov rates.
The #Katerji Group, owned by MP Hossam Katerji & his brother, is among the major beneficiaries. Also a shipping business, KG shipped grain and oil from SDF areas in NE Syria to regime areas and transported goods from/to #Efrin.
KG were also made famous dealing with #IslamicState
KG were also made famous dealing with #IslamicState
#Syria journo Ayman Al-Halabi captures moment of #Turkey airstrikes vs #SDF #YPG stationed in #Minnigh Airbase, #Aleppo
#Afrin #Efrin
#Afrin #Efrin
#Turkey-backed #FSA #EuphratesShield commander:
'Delay in #Efrin #Afrin op due to "bad weather". #FSA put on high alert as of this afternoon. Op likely to kickoff 0700 tomorrow, unless sthing changed on international scene'
'Delay in #Efrin #Afrin op due to "bad weather". #FSA put on high alert as of this afternoon. Op likely to kickoff 0700 tomorrow, unless sthing changed on international scene'
#SDF #YPG fighter near #Rajo #Afrin #Efrin displaying KIA #Turkey-backed #EuphratesShield #FSA fighters, mocking #ZeytinDali, the name given to #AfrinOp
#Syria
#Syria
Confirmed
#Turkey #Hatay #EuphratesShield will call for #Syria #FSA volunteers specifically for #AfrinOperasyonu.
Sources suggest #Efrin op to endure &/or expand in scope.
#Turkey #Hatay #EuphratesShield will call for #Syria #FSA volunteers specifically for #AfrinOperasyonu.
Sources suggest #Efrin op to endure &/or expand in scope.
We started a new year (I hope the last) of the Syrian civil war. But 2017 has been the most important year & the result of inflection point of the war in 2016 with many political & military developments : (1)
The first military operation of #SAA was Wadi Bara (23/12/2016 - 29/1/2017) which finished with the evacuation of rebels from Wadi Barada & the North montainous area in the border with Lebanon. At the same time other forces advanced in E.Ghouta reaching some parts of Hazrama (2) 
#SDF started the second phase of #WrathOfEuphrates operation on December securing the West flank of #Raqqa plains (3) 
