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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
TURKEY’S assault on the Syrian Kurdish community of Afrin continues. It represents a further and very dangerous escalation of military interventions by Nato powers in Syria.
Turkey’s claimed objective is to establish a 20-mile deep buffer zone along southern border with Syria.
This would involve the violent annexation of a significant area of Syrian territory, untold suffering for the mainly Kurdish population and, if successful, expelling the existing inhabitants further south into the area currently controlled, with US support, by the Syrian Kurdish militia, the YPG.
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
