Interesting take on Turkey’s invasion in a week where Erdoğan has used chemical weapons in NE Syria, bombed the only hospital in Serekaniye multiple times, promised to “crush heads” of Kurds, all during a supposed “ceasefire” and receiving worldwide condemnation incl @amnesty Describing dissent as “vanishingly rare” with no attempt to give context: Erdoğan imprisoning all critical journalists, tens of 1000s of HDP activists, anti-war academics & medics, closing down critical publishing houses, the “world’s biggest prison for journalists” @RSF_inter

Many comments that the Kurds in Syria were mistaken to accept support from imperialists, are "separatists" or "US proxies", that they should have listened to those warning them about this or that they were useful dupes who only have themselves to blame. THREAD 🧵 After gaining a degree of autonomy and self-governance in the midst of the Syrian Civil War, the Kurdish forces in NE Syria (Rojava) found themselves at the mercy of ISIS encroaching along the Syrian-Turkish border, with hostile Turkey the other side providing sustenance to ISIS

Wow don’t you love that fantastic human rights organisation @AmnestyUK?

When Kurds stage a peaceful protest against their silence over thousands of Kurdish political prisoners on hunger strike, they call in the Metropolitan police to violently arrest them! #AmnestyDoYourJob “Do as I say, not as I do”

@amnesty pretending to defend the right to protest, then calling the police to violently arrest 20-25 Kurds - mostly political refugees, including hunger strikers - who are peacefully protesting Amnesty’s refusal to speak out for Kurdish prisoners