Thread by @nadinemaenza

Today #Turkey continues to:
* Shell Parakh village in Zakho #Kurdistan where 9 tourists were killed Wed
* Shell Manbij & Tel Rifaat in NE #Syria

@richghazal @D_abdulkader @CliffSmithZBRDZ explain Erdogan's actions must be met with swift consequences. 1/
nationalinterest.org/feature/turkis…

"Not only is Turkey driving out Christians & other ethno-religious minorities, but it also seeks to replace them with the roughly 3.6 million Syrian, mostly Arab, refugees currently within Turkish borders... an act of ethnic cleansing and replacement." 2/

"According to Nadine Maenza, former chair of @USCIRF and newly appointed president of @IrfSecretariat, the fate of the region’s minorities is on the line: “If this area falls [to Turkey], there won’t be any #Christians or #Yazidis left.” 3/

@USCIRF @IrfSecretariat "A recent report by the Wilson Center puts this quite starkly, saying, “What was once a ‘#Turkish-#Kurdish’ conflict, now impacts every single religious and ethnic group in northern #Syria, the #Kurdistan region of northern #Iraq, and the #Sinjar region of western Iraq. 4/

"If the United States is interested in defending some of the region’s most vulnerable communities, it should make clear to Erdogan that aggressive action, as threatened, will be met with swift and sure consequences."5/ nationalinterest.org/feature/turkis…