Thanks for the OANN link.
https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/27884476-bc3a-4857-a223-7b8ae4fda6ed
Middle East...8h....ago.....
Syrian Kurdish leader: US promised to protect us
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) - Ilham Ahmed, the co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), told a congressional hearing in Washington on Wednesday that US officials had previously assured Kurdish-led forces in Syria that America would not allow Turkey to attack areas under the group’s control.
However, as she explained, the US suddenly allowed Turkey to attack in early October, despite “promises” that American forces would remain in Syria until the defeat of the Islamic State and a political solution to the Syrian crisis had been reached.
When Turkey led a military assault on the northern Syrian region of Afrin in early 2018, she added, US officials had said at the time that they were not able to intervene because they had no forces there, but reassured the SDC that “wherever our forces are, we won’t allow any attacks to those regions.”
“For these reasons, we trusted the US [government] and US forces,” she said, through an interpreter. “We believed when there is [an] attack to this region, [the] US would not allow that.”
Moreover, she added, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had just recently pulled back from the Turkish border, removing trenches, heavy weapons, and other fortifications in good faith with the hope that it would help prevent a Turkish attack. The SDF did so, she said, under the assumption that the “airspace would be closed by the US.”
Soon after a phone call between US President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Oct. 6, the US said it would open the airspace to Turkey and pull its forces from the border, the official said.
“We did not expect them to fight on our behalf,” she said, but Syrian Kurds were amazed by the abrupt US announcement that its forces would withdraw completely.
“We were shocked and puzzled,” she said. “As [a] result of this, we found ourselves in a fight against the Turkish state.”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>NIKK..part of the article. Not my words. Would like to comment but I won’t.