And it includes resettlement of Turksmen into strip of Syria adjacent to Turkey, currently occupied by the Kurds.
Erdogan really does think he is the ruler of the world.
Everything Erdogan does is aimed at annihilating the Kurds.
The Armenians weren’t enough.
He is going after the Kurds.
Erdogan was the key player, along with Obama’s State Department, in the destruction of Syria and Iraq.
With the departure of Obama, the loss of Aleppo, and an apparent rapprochement between Trump and Putin, he is looking to salvage what he can.
Mainly, he reserves the right to kill Kurds.
This sounds like it came right from the United Nations
You know, the organization that doesn't believe in borders
doesn't believe in Culture
but, is willing to move against the Kurds and their border !
Safe zones is carving out a place where the islamist rebels can consolidate power protected by NATO. (a defensive alliance out of Europe)
Its the same old goal of removing Assad, repackaged. And many of our senior military and political leaders support it.
Pull Al Qaeda out of Syria and exterminate ISIS, and Syria and Iraq will themselves be “safe zones”. No need to carve out enclaves where Al Qaeda can be safe.
You can bet there won’t be any Christians, and maybe no shiites either, in any of his “safe” zones.