So Ankara launched illegal military operation in Iraq...and now has claimed a death toll associated with it to excuse some new military invasion and also a crackdown on dissidents inside Turkey. Also goal appears to be to engineer US support (see it already got US embassy tweet)
Reads like it was orchestrated entirely to create a fake crisis so Ankara could wring a phone call or concessions out of new US admin. 
See the goal is to use this operation, which Ankara itself launched illegally invading Iraq...claiming it fights “terrorists”...to then actually use this as an excuse to go after the opposition at home, which it has already jailed and dismissed most of its mayors
Usually if a country decides to launch a special ops raid to free hostages, which hostages we hadn’t heard Ankara talk about much before (why not)...then if the operation is a failure and people are killed the government doesn’t declare victory and then launch a witch hunt
Looks like an operation designed entirely with domestic politics...toward total authoritarianism in Turkey.
https://twitter.com/Rebaz_Majeed/status/1361031284517126154?s=20
Ankara is creating a “casus belli”; any evidence of its claims though
https://twitter.com/amberinzaman/status/1361047835253362693
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