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'Turkish Tel Abyad', that is how the vast majority of its inhabitants (Arabs) call the Turkish half of Tel Abyad. I wanted to see it with my own eyes, cuz I wondered if the town was like half Turkish half Arab or majority Arab. It is absolutely the latter. It is an Arab town. Image
Of course, education, services and so on are Turkish and jn Turkish. But the Arab inhabitants speak Arabic among themselves. They are bilingual. Same goes 4 the town of Harran, roughly between Şanlıurfa and Akçakale. Ak = white, kale = castle/the Turkish translation of Tel Abyad.
What I also learned, the Arabic of Akçakale/Turkish Tel Abyad, Harran and Şanliurfa (mixed population) is like Iraqi Arabic, to my surprise. It started already in the hotel where a waitor said 'aani' (ana, Iraqi way). In Akçakale I heard a lot of -ich instead of -ik: beitich. Image
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Because they were #Turkish.

The last time #Kurds in #Nusaybin started an uprising, #Turkey bombed the city to rubble, killing hundreds of civilians.
IMPORTANT: #Turkey is now bombing #Kurds in #Nusaybin (the Kurdish city in south-east Turkey that was bombed to rubble in 2015/16 by Turkey) as a false flag operation against #YPG/#SDF.

Civilians took pictures of the mortars hitting the city...

Turns out they are all Turkish.
On Tuesday, contacts told me that #Kurds in #Nusaybin are worried that #Turkey would soon bomb them as a false flag op. against #YPG, since it's a #Kurdish city where nearly all residents support the #HDP/are seen as enemies.

It's a sick version of two birds with one stone.
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ATTENZIONE
C'è il forte sospetto che la #Turchia abbia utilizzato gas chimici contro la popolazione di #Afrin, in particolare cloro.
#Thread

#DefendAfrin
#AfrinUnderAttack
Ieri sera intorno alle 22 sei civili provenienti dal villaggio di Erende sono arrivati all'ospedale di #Afrin lamentando grossi problemi di respirazioni. I dottori hanno constatato gli effetti del gas cloro.
Il cloro è un gas soffocante diffuso liberandolo da apposite bombole, che provoca una tosse spasmodica con gravi lesioni polmonari che spesso portano alla morte per asfissia.
#Afrin #Erdogan #Turchia
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