Posted on 06/23/2020 7:04:20 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
As Turkey touts its humanitarian aid deliveries to Syria's Idlib, critics weigh the six truckloads of supplies against its thousands of tons of allegedly looted Syrian grain.
Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported that on Monday, two Turkish charities had sent six trucks carrying humanitarian aid to the rebel-held province of Idlib in northwest Syria.
“Truckloads of supplies including flour, clothing and dry food [donated] by the Adana Dosteller and Eskisehir Gunisigi charities entered Idlib through the Yayladagi border crossing in Turkey’s southern Hatay province. The aid will be distributed among families living in tents in Idlib,” Anadolu reported.
Turkey’s generosity to millions of displaced Syrians inside Syria and Turkey alike has been well documented. But critics of Ankara’s Syria policy charge that it's giving with one hand and stealing with the other.
A report released today by Syrians for Truth and Justice, a non-partisan nonprofit documenting human rights violations in Syria, lays out in exhaustive detail how the Turkish government has facilitated commerce conducted by its Syrian National Army allies in looting grain. The grain is from eight silos that were confiscated in October during Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring, which resulted in Turkey’s occupation of a large swath of territory between the towns of Tell Abyad and Ras al-Ain formerly controlled by the United States’ Syrian Kurdish allies.
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Many in the ME are sick of his abuses and vile actions.
May it come to an end soon.
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Erdogan is not seizing lane in Syria out of a desire for charity.
He seeks to extract wealth from it - just as he does from Turkey.
Correction: land, not lane.
Erdogan is not seizing land in Syria out of a desire for charity.
He seeks to extract wealth from it - just as he does from Turkey.
Absolutely correct. He is like the Turk precursors the Huns.
the interesting thing is that many Turks are also fed up with him
The world should be fed up with him.
He serves the wrong master and represents great Evil.
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