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Kurdistan Solidarity Campaign

Nov 29, 2019 • 2 tweets • 2 min read

Impressive that even the Daily Mail couldn’t hack employing Oz Katerji, whose main contribution to understanding Turkey’s bloody invasion of Afrin was to defend the honour of the Turkish-backed jihadist/ISIS/FSA gangs who were responsible for war crimes from “anti-Sunni bigotry”

Weird that he regurgitates Turkish attack lines on YPG and in defence of the dignity of jihadist headchoppers (how dare you compare him to ISIS, “it’s a guy holding a knife”)

Guess that time working for Turkey’s propaganda arm TRT didn’t go to waste 🧐

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