Thread by @TimInHonolulu

1. Why are Syrian Christians so fearful of Turkish invasion of Northern Syria?

In 1914, 20% of Turkey's population was Christian. Now Christians make up less than .4%. Armenian Christians were the victims of the second worst genocide in the 20th Century that Turkey refuses to

2. even acknowledge. In January 2018, while serving as DCIA, @SecPompeo met secretly with sanctioned heads of FSB, GRU & SVR, Russia's intelligence services, and IMO gave the Russians and the Turkish jihadist filled force a green light to conduct a genocide in Afrin

3. targeting Christians and Ezidi and ethnically cleansing Kurds from their ancestral homes. Did @POTUS Trump know his CIA director was plotting with Russia, Iran & Turkey to eliminate Syrian Christians? I have been seeking records from the CIA but so far have been met with

4. dead air. Mistakes can be corrected. @POTUS needs to stop the Turkish advance on the Syrian oil and gas and @NSC should deploy a brigade of Airborne forces to protect Syrians from another genocide. Turkey has nothing to fear from the Kurds, Turkmen, Arabs and

5. Kurds living peacefully in Syria, but they have history to prove they have something to fear from Turkey invading their country intent on genocide. @WHNSC @JimInhofe @SenJackReed @RepAdamSmith @CENTCOM @82ndABNDiv @101stAASLTDIV