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Will One Million People return to Syria’s Safe Zone?

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Furthermore, in a meeting between CENTCOM officials and the SDF/YPG both sides agreed that refugees can only return when preparations are complete, that refugees have to be screened, and only those who originated from the region without any connection to terror organizations and crimes against the Syrian people would be allowed to return.

YPG’s Retaliation Against the Press: Kurdistan 24 Case

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The ban of the Kurdish media outlet by the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq is not surprising, as the head of the US supported Syrian Democratic Forces, Ferhat Abdi Sahin (alias Mazloum Kobane in the SDF, and Sahin Cilo in the PKK), was close friends with Hülya Oran and were active in the Qandil Mountains together.

US-Turkey Relations in the Trump Era: A Turkish Perspective

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In a nutshell, the two policies of Washington; the denial of repeated requests made by Ankara for the extradition of Gulen and the dispatch of trucks of arms to YPG three days after President Donald Trump promised that the United States would not supply any more weapons to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pushed Turkey straight into Russia’s and Iran’s arms.

Turkey’s Syria Strategy after the US Withdrawal

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If the non-YPG forces (mainly the Arab forces) inside the SDF decide to detach themselves from SDF, then Turkey’s strategy has to take the Syrian regime’s move towards the eastern part of the Euphrates into account The game changer development for Turkey would be a potential and quick dissolution of the Syrian Democratic Forces.