“Turkey originally went into Syria to fight Kurdish “terrorists” after Donald Trump’s withdrawal of most American forces in Syria.”
That is so demonstrably untrue, that it shows the rest of the author’s arguments to be motivated by a biased agenda.
President Trump’s withdrawal (actually just a reduction by half, when the heavy combat forces re-deployed, after the active combat against ISIS was successfully concluded), occurred in 2019.
Turkey was directly supporting their surrogate militias to take control of Syrian territory from the Assad Government since 2011.
Turkish Military units crossed into Syria, in a declared Military operation, on 24 August 2016, and has been occupying (and Governing) an increasing amount of Syrian territory since then. They have conducted harsh ethnic cleansing of Kurds from Afrin Province, to shape the demographics there, in support of a future referendum to formally secede from Syria and join Turkey. The occupied areas have been given Turkish Post offices, and other elements of Turkey’s civil administration have been extended there as well.
Turkey’s incursion into Syria started as a deliberate strategy long before President Trump was elected. It was conducted with the full and active support of the Obama Administration, as part of their “Arab Spring” drive to overthrow Governments in the region, using surrogate militias.
BeauBo is totally correct. This is Turk Propaganda.
It IS Turkey supporting ISIS and acting on hatred of the Kurds. Assad is making deals with Turkey when it benefits Assad. Same with Russia.