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9 Oct, 7 tweets, 4 min read
It's one year since Turkey's assault against the Syrian Kurds.

Scores of former ISIS members are now being sheltered, funded and protected by Turkey in regions Turkey occupied and cleansed of Kurdish residents, a new @RojavaIC report reveals.

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rojavainformationcenter.com/2020/10/databa…
Since the ‘Peace Spring’ operation green-lit by Donald Trump, Turkey has been installing Sunni Arab militias in this formerly diverse, tolerant and secular region, responsible for a wide range of war crimes and atrocities against the civilian population.

rojavainformationcenter.com/2020/09/summar…
Now, a new @RojavaIC report reveals the IDs of over 40 former ISIS members being sheltered, funded and protected by Turkey

They include ISIS commanders, fighters and emirs now on the Turkish payroll, using Turkish-issued ID cards and receiving commands from Turkish intelligence.
In 2019, a widely-covered @RojavaIC report identified 40 former ISIS members now part of Turkish-backed forces in Afrin.

The present report expands on this, applying more stringent methodology and indicating Turkey is acting as a state sponsor of terror.
rojavainformationcenter.com/2019/08/databa…
There are tactical & ideological differences between ISIS and Turkey's proxies.

Where ISIS sought to establish a caliphate, Turkey uses Sunni Muslim militias to achieve its own expansionist aims from assaulting the Kurds in Syria through the Mediterranean to Armenia/Azerbaijan.
As a U.S. Notice signed by Donald Trump recently noted, Turkey’s offensives in NES “pose an extraordinary threat to U.S. national & security foreign policy, endanger civilians, undermine the campaign vs ISIS, & undermine regional security and stability.”
whitehouse.gov/briefings-stat…
Both U.S. Presidental candidates should therefore publicly and concretely commit to preventing any further Turkish military actions against North and East Syria through diplomatic, economic and if necessary military means.

Download the full report here:
rojavainformationcenter.com/2020/10/databa…

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