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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 Image
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1/#Turkey had well established "soft power" lines of influence throughout the Greater #MiddleEast (North #Africa, Horn of Africa, Eastern #Mediterranean, etc.).
2/But now #Turkish leaders are ready to assume greater risk to assert overt military power in an expeditionary manner to expand #Turkey's influence, and therefore leverage, on conflicts beyond the country's near abroad (#Libya being farther than say #Cyprus or #Syria).
3/However #Turkish leaders don't want to risk significant casualties to their own forces in these expeditionary ops, whether far away like in #Libya or closer to home like in #Syria, when #Turkey's military has spent so much time and $$ building a proxy force of #Syrian fighters.
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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.
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.
#Russia and at least one #NATO country knew about what happened in the hospital. Documents were sent.
However, no 1 knew what really happened at the flats apart from activists manipulating the scene there.
This is why #Russia focused solely on discrediting the hospital scene
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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."
#Turkey has deployed its own armed forces to x12 “observation posts” fencing in opposition areas & enforcing de-escalation.

#Russia seems invested in stability in #Idlib - but for how long?

After #Deraa, will #Assad & #Iran destroy the last remaining “de-escalation zone”?
For now, expect periodic regime bombing raids & notably, also ‘spoiling’ attacks by fighters unrestrained by #Turkey’s iron grip.

#HTS will remain internally divided on de-escalation -- the more regime bombings, the heavier the pressure for #HTS to respond = #Assad opportunity.
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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. Image
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 Image
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#Syria journo Ayman Al-Halabi captures moment of #Turkey airstrikes vs #SDF #YPG stationed in #Minnigh Airbase, #Aleppo
#Afrin #Efrin Image
#Turkey-backed #FSA Commander in #Azaz
"So far #Syria troops NOT engaged in #Afrin #TalRifaat #Minnigh. #Turkey jets & artillery so far only parties involved."
Footage shows aftermath of #Turkey airstrikes vs village near #Rajo, NW #Afreen, home to many #Syria refugees. No civilian casualties reported here.
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#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'
#SDF #YPG fighter near #Rajo #Afrin #Efrin displaying KIA #Turkey-backed #EuphratesShield #FSA fighters, mocking #ZeytinDali, the name given to #AfrinOp
#Syria
Confirmed
#Turkey #Hatay #EuphratesShield will call for #Syria #FSA volunteers specifically for #AfrinOperasyonu.
Sources suggest #Efrin op to endure &/or expand in scope. Image
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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)
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