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yes we should condemn any Turkish bombings of course, but I am just wondering why Chris felt it important to send this piece of standard Stalinist-style propaganda? The "FSA gangs" did this and that, as we know because the media of a US-backed and Assad-backed one-party state says so. "The areas intensely targeted by the Turkish state after the Astana Treaty are villages and hamlets like Sheikh İsa, Tal Rifat, Um-Hosh and Ayn Daqne liberated by the revolutionary forces in intense clashes last year." Yeh, Tal Rifaat and the surrounding areas, were not regions the YPG liberated from ISIS with help from US air strikes, they are Arab-majority areas the YPG conquered from the FSA/rebels with help from Russian air strikes, in February 2016. They expelled the population of Tal Rifaat, who live in Azaz and other towns closer to the Turkish border. In a famous scene, YPG thugs gloated over the corpses of FSA defenders of Tal Rifaat. This si the town, by the way, from where the FSA/rebels launched their massive attack on ISIS in January 2014 that permanently cleared ISIS out of the whole of western Syria. As for Sheikh Isa, this is a town between the YPG-conquered Menagh air base and the (still) rebel-held town Mare, which hadn't been conquered by the Russian/YPG attack in February 2016. Around half way through last year, ISIS was launching a furious offensive against Mare from the east. At that point, the ultra-opportunist YPG (sorry, "SDF"), decided this was a good time to *collaborate with ISIS* by launching an offensive against the rebels in Sheikh Isa and Mare from the west. Under attack from both sides, the Mare rebels were offered the great deal by the YPG that they only have to cede Sheikh Isa, and the YPG will stop aiding the ISIS attack on Mare. "We do not accept the Turkish state’s invasion operation." No, but the Russian state's invasion, that's OK, we collaborate with that. But not as much as with the Americans - they are fantastic. On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Chris Slee via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > > https://anfenglish.com/rojava/the-people-of-shehba-angry-at-the-turkish-state-19985 > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mkaradjis%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
