“The Syrian territory taken by Turkey last year was said to be used for the millions of Syrian refugees taken in and being supported by Turkey. Is that what happened?”
No. There is just no housing or jobs in that small strip of rural land, for the large numbers that Turkey was proposing. Their aspirations appear to be for a much larger bite out of Syria, than just that.
It seems that Turkey’s real strategy is to gradually occupy and administer more Syrian territory along the Turkish border, conduct ethnic and sectarian cleansing of its opponents (like Kurds and Shi’ites), and then selectively repopulate the areas with Sunnis who are loyal to Turkey, from among the Syrian refugees it has in Turkey (the rest of the refugees would presumably be dumped to Europe at some point).
Then at some point Turkey would stage a “Democratic Referendum”, on seceding from Syria, to become part of Turkey.
Interesting take, thanks!!
I think the plan was to uproot any of the Leaders in the m.east who were not cooperating with the overall goals of the Globalist New World Order ......replacing them with Leaders among the Muslim brotherhood (as they did in Egypt)... That administration wildly believe they can control the Brotherhood......plus the brotherhood is spread out throughout those areas so they falsely believed the brotherhood would unite the m.east.
If Hillary's people are ever back in office that plan will likely be played again.