Dani Ellis
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Briefly back on twitter to put the word out that Rojava is currently under the most intense aerial bombardment we’ve witnessed in years.
Turkey are openly destroying vital civilian infrastructure. In the last 24 hours they’ve hit half a dozen sites and killed at least 8 workers.
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Personally if I wanted Kurds to stop wiping out company-sized elements of my armed forces whenever the sky’s overcast I would simply stop occupying their land, banning their language, erasing their culture and torturing those in my custody.
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The rank hypocrisy of Erdogan who just annihilated the water and power infrastructure for 3+ million people in Syria to now try and take the high ground on Gaza.
And he has the gall to call us terrorists while giving out passports, funding and matériel to Hamas.
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For a second year in a row Turkey have destroyed the only gas bottling depot in NE Syria, and again just before the weather turns.
Don’t believe their bullshit about “attacking PKK infrastructure”; Turkey have just deprived 4 million people of their only clean way to cook food.
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Turkey have resumed their bombing of Rojava, knocking out the hasty repairs made to try and keep people warm over winter.
An evil act just days before Christmas and right as the winter weather sets in. And all while Erdogan criticises Israel for their own treatment of Gaza.
Confirmed regions of Turkish airstrikes:
Qamishlo countryside
Derik countryside
Tirbesiye
Til Kocer
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For 4 yrs Turkey have occupied much of S. Kurdistan with 20k+ troops, 100s of bases & at the cost of billions, yet the PKK are still able to mount devastating attacks in all weather on a monthly basis.
What will it take for them to realise there is no military solution to this?
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“we had never ever attacked and bombed an entire 2.5m city and tell the residents to leave their homes”
Dear Frederike;
Your tweets till 7th October are still mostly focused on advocating PKK and alike. During our war against terrorism, we had never ever attacked and bombed an entire 2.5m city and tell the residents to leave their homes in order to fight against PKK terrorists. We
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Every single site bombed by Turkey on Christmas day was unambiguously civilian owned and run. Every single person killed a civilian worker.
This is collective punishment of a civilian population in response to the Turkish Army’s own impotence in mountains more than 500km away.
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4 days & 4 nights of unending bombing by Turkey and tonight feels like it’s hitting hardest; hospitals in 3 cities are now calling for blood donations
What’s telling is how relatively few of the dead are SDF; of the 100+ attacks nearly all have targeted civilian infrastructure.
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Turkish FM claiming they are hitting “pkk sites” which so far include: a brick factory, several gas wells, and electrical transformers supplying electricity to Qamislo.
This is textbook terror bombing. When Russia does it to Ukraine there is international outrage. Here? Silence.
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The ongoing bombardment of NE Syria by the Turkish Airforce is a act of terror the likes of which have not been witnessed since ISIS were at the height of their power.
Every single strike so far has been on civilian infrastructure, and every confirmed death a civilian worker.
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While the World has looked on in horror at events in Gaza, Turkey has wiped out the infrastructure vital to life in Rojava through a campaign of brutal air strikes that have largely gone unnoticed outside of Syria.
Read more on
@novaramedia
:
OPINION: With all eyes on Palestine, don’t forget Rojava.
@lapinesque
writes.
Read more here 👇
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Solidarity with the oppressed is not a transaction
Why I, as a Kurd, support Israel?
Total number of Kurds murdered by Arabs since the 1920s: 300,000
Total number of Kurds murdered by Turks: over 1.5 million
Total number of Kurds murdered by Persians: 100,000
Total number of Kurds murdered by Jews: 0
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Much like hospitals in Gaza, this MSF-built hospital in Kobanî, NE Syria, just spontaneously exploded around the same time that warplanes from an occupying state were overhead.
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No matter how much Turkey try to make out Rojava is a terror state I have never met a single person here who thinks massacring Turkish civilians would in any way help their plight.
The Kurds in Rojava must learn from the Palestinians in Gaza
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I first visited As-Suwaydiya in 2019. Its 6 turbines provided electricity to nearly half a million people & the bottling station cooking & heating gas for more than 3 million.
Its destruction is an act of exceptional cruelty by Turkey. How can anyone claim this is self defence?
[ON THE GROUND]
RIC documented Turkish airstrike damage at Suwaydiya.
The site - now out of service - is NES' only gas facility and also an electricity station.
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Looking likely that 30+ Turkish army personnel were killed across 3 attacks over the last 36 hours.
To put it in perspective: on the British Army’s worst day in NI they lost 18 soldiers.
Turkey needs a Good Friday-style agreement or the cycle of violence will never be broken.
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The electrical grid across NE Syria is now mostly inoperable.
I am less worried about individual homes—most have access to communal generators—than I am the municipal infrastructure that relies on the grid: bread factories, water pumping & treatment, hospitals, and fuel depots.
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Absolutely gutted to see this news. Pîro was well known across Rojava as much for his wonderful original filmmaking as for his warm and kind nature, particularly in putting up with fresh-faced idiots like me when I first arrived. His murder will only strengthen our resolve.
Mansour Karimian, an artist from Sine, Rojhilat, was martyred in the city of Qamishlo after the recent bombing of Rojava by the fascist Turkish state.
He was one of the key producer of the filming series in th "Tava Sor" and "Evina Kurd".
#RojavaIsUnderAttack
@RISEUP4R0JAVA
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Syria is already impoverished. Life is fucking hard. And now, having failed in their military and diplomatic efforts to destroy the region, Turkey is desperately resorting to the destruction of the infrastructure that peoples’ lives depend on.
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Turkey’s bombing campaign continues unabated into its 3rd day.
Without international assistance we’re heading towards a humanitarian crisis this winter.
Turkish airstrikes continued up until midnight last night.
📌Covid-19 hospital facility, Kobane
📌Cement factory, Kobane
📌Grain silos, Amude
📌Ayn Issa power station
📌Fuel pipes near Mizgeft Dam, Tirbespi
📌Gir Zero, Derik
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If this number of Kurdish protestors held even a peaceful demo the gendarmerie would have battered them half to death and most would get massive sentences.
There has to have been some degree of complicity with the state for a violent mob of hamas supporters to make it so far.
🇹🇷
#Turkey
: Clashes have erupted outside the
#UnitedStates
military’s İncirlik Air Base after a large protest convoy arrived at the base. The convoy was formed in protest against
#Israel
’s ongoing assault on Gaza, drawing participants from cities throughout Turkey.
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Current Turkish policy would justify the British wiping out Ireland’s electrical grid and gas network because the provos bombed a tube station in London.
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A second video showing the same kind of double tap used just south of Kobani. First drawing medics and firefighters out before hitting the target again.
These scenes are not in Gaza or any other country. Today, Turkish occupation aircraft bombed fire brigades when they tried to put out a fire at the Lafarge company in Kobani.
If such an attack occurred in Gaza, what would be the reaction of the international and Arab media?
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Number of confirmed Turkish airstrikes on civilian electrical and oil & gas infrastructure in Rojava approaching 20 just today.
By far the most ferocious assault on the region since ISIS’s reign of terror. Even in 2019 we didn’t see such widespread destruction of vital industry.
Locations struck by Turkish aerial bombardment today so far:
1. Mushairfah area, Heseke (diesel tank burnt, 3 injured)
2. Darbasiyah/Heseke/Tel Tamir junction (strike on car)
3. West of Washokani IDP camp, Heseke (causing NGO exodus from camp)
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Well this certainly answered a question I’ve had: was it coincidence that Turkey, one of Hamas’s main sponsors, started massive aerial bombardment of Syrian’s civilian infrastructure just before Hamas’s attack, or did they have prior knowledge and use it as a media cover?
Senior Hamas Official Ali Baraka: We Have Been Secretly Planning the Invasion for Two Years; Russia Sympathizes with Us, Benefits from U.S. Embroilment in This War; Any Swap Deal Should Include Hamas Prisoners in Europe and the U.S.
#Hamas
#Russia
#Israel_under_attack
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During this latest round of attacks on civilians, firefighters in Kobani filmed a second ‘double-tap’ airstrike as they were responding to casualties.
Turkey are using the same abhorrent tactics as Russia and Israel in response to yet another devastating defeat in S. Kurdistan
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I’m sure it’s entirely a coincidence that Iranian proxy militias launched a wave of drone and rocket attacks on US bases in Rojava and Erbil at the very same time that Turkey bombed civilian sites in the region.
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Hiking 10 miles up a mountain in 2ft thick snow with 50lbs of kit in a blizzard to attack a fortified position is anything but ‘cowardly’ or ‘terrorist’ as the Turkish press have put it.
Bombing hospitals and printing presses from an air conditioned F-16 is very much both.
Turkey keep calling Kurds terrorists and say they’re attacking terrorists. When TSK and Guerilla battle, that’s war.
Turkey initiate these attacks on Kurdish land unprovoked, so their army should expect a military retaliation.
But, Turkish air strikes are attacking city
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I’ve spent my Christmas day trying to find out which of my friends and colleagues are dead and which are alive following a ferocious campaign of terror bombing by the Turkish air force across North East Syria.
#StopTurkishTerrorism
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Not going to retweet them but there are several videos on here already of turkish soliders torturing kurds they claim to be members of the PKK as if it somehow makes them look good.
Turkish forces have a long history of proudly posting barbaric shit like this.
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It's now been more than 4 years that I've been tweeting updates and photos from all around NE Syria. With Twitter rapidly going downhill, the start of the New Year seems like a good time for a social media break.
Happy New Year! Sersala we pîroz be! عام سعيد!
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When I graduated from my engineering degree virtually all the top performing graduates went to BAE Systems, Goldman Sachs, GCHQ etc. Was definitely a radicalising moment to see a generation of bright young people hoovered up by these soulless orgs at humanity’s expense.
My least scientific, most Malcolm Gladwell style midwit take about why we live in hell is that 90% of our species’ best and brightest who even 40 years ago would’ve been designing rocketships or fertilizers or home appliances 9 to 5 are now working on Algorithmic Hypergouging
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This snivelling shithead was Erdogan+AKP’s biggest shill for years, while at the same time they were funding Hamas and providing passports and security for Hamas’s leadership.
Now he has the gall to recommend further draconian legislation in the name of fighting anti-semitism.
The explosion of attacks on Jews in the UK since 7 October is a national emergency. In my forthcoming review, I’m planning to recommend change in the law to give police powers to ban the marches for fuelling antisemitic crime
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Aaron being piled on by people who somehow forgot that Ukraine literally used an unwitting Russian civilian as a suicide bomber on Kerch bridge.
It’s quite possible to support brutally oppressed peoples while condemning atrocities that they themselves carry out.
There’s clear double standard in endorsing terrorism against civilian targets by Ukraine (which one can obviously argue is justified - they face occupation) & condemning it by Palestinians.
Those fighting our enemies = war of liberation
Those fighting our allies = terrorism
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her biji heval greta ✌🏼
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@emrahceltikci
here’s a fun game which of these cities were destroyed by TSK and which by IDF?
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Every time I see this guy speaking on TV I can’t help thinking that if I asked an AI to generate an image of a cheap knock-off Hitler I’d be pretty content with this a result:
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I just can’t understand what the endgame is. Cause a civilian catastrophe so people turn on the SDF? Soften them up before an invasion? Or mindless collective punishment with no end in sight?
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Amongst the catastrophe unfolding in Israel+Palestine, US political commentators are rightfully calling out Turkey for being a state sponsor of terror: allowing 40k+ ISIS fighters through their border, militarily supporting Al Qaeda and taking central role in establishing Hamas.
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How can the region stabilize with all these militias present in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen?
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This more-or-less describes much of PYD-controlled areas of NE Syria. It's not perfect, but I've come to understand why they felt the need to do this given the history of states using drugs to criminalise and pacify colonised and oppressed peoples.
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In case anyone’s wondering whether the Syrian regime will support Hamas in the current conflict they’re actually too busy reducing Aleppo’s suburbs (and a whole bunch of other towns) to rubble for like the 5th time in the last 10 years.
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Is this the first air-to-air kill of a hostile aircraft by an F-35A?
F-35A fighter jet of USAF from 421st EFS shot-down a Turkish Air Force's Anka-S armed drone over Hasakah. The Turkish drone had bombed positions of SDF which are the US allies in North East of Syria.
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@sohoprint
DFLP demonstrated solidarity for the Kurds when they sheltered Ocalan and trained the guerilla. They did this without expectation or compensation because they believed in solidarity amongst oppressed peoples.
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@MylesCaggins
@NewlinesInst
@shellykittleson
The people in NE Syria that you claim to be a friend of are having their already precarious existence made virtually impossible by Turkey’s bombing campaign. How are you not embarrassed to contribute to this shameful article?
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@bmbaci_mulaym
This is precisely the braindead attitude which will keep TSK losing 30+ guys a month for years to come.
The UK has had 25 years of peace because we realised calling people terrorists and locking them up for life doesn’t take away their desire for self determination.
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The unwritten British constitution has a convention that each Home Secretary must be at least marginally more morally bankrupt and lacking in humanity than the last. Looking forward to see whether Rishi Sunak can maintain this noble tradition in the wake of Suella Braverman.
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Any recommendations on what to read or who to follow to understand what’s going on atm in Chiapas?
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@GilgoReloaded
US diplomatic relations with Turkey are a tightrope and anyone who wants to remain part of the family have to walk it v. carefully. You can’t step out of line and speak openly about Turkey if you want a cushty state dept job and to retire on a govt pension.
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@ObiWanKobe
@TimInHonolulu
seriously fuck off condescendingly explaining to people in an active warzone what constitutes a clean fuel
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@dpiece90
I work for the Department of Electricity in Hassakah. I don’t think anyone here intends to kill you but I will ask around the office just to check.
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@Paw_Ziolkowski
How many of the 11,000 dead kids were religious fascists? What crime did they commit that deserves death?
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@StrangerThnRedz
a) the pkk didn’t take, and do not hold these sites
b) I have visited and worked on these sites and hold the coalition destruction of them without any intent to recommission a grave crime
c) it is possible to oppose both the senseless killing by Turkey and the US at the same time
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@StrangerThnRedz
lol what a joke account you are. “anti dictators” and “anti nationalist” in your bio while your tongue firmly up erdogan’s ass. turkey is an ethno nationalist project.
they havent “showed restraint” they have repeatedly failed to wipe out kurdish self determination
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@RSeed13
@Wikipedia
Wikipedia didn’t write the page themselves, tagging them in it isn’t going to change anything.
Ideally we need someone with time and experience would do the research and correct the article. If there is anything glaringly wrong you can correct it yourself.
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@MZAcaaAat
I didn’t mean in general, I mean the developments of today and what les up to it. The autonomous communes are being dissolved.
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@ONC3X
Good find. This answers a question that was floating around in the back of my mind these past days…
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@BrockDiaries
Yup. A lot of Christians (Assyrian, Syriac) and a lot of Kurds who will literally take any excuse for a party
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@piercepenniless
Love seeing all these patriotic union jack banners and placards at protests adorned with the logo of American evangelical tea-partiers.
Real grassroots, homegrown political activism.
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@nightoffices
Actually a whole smorgasbord of islamist groups represented, shouldn’t have singled out hamas.
Currently thousands of vehicles and tens of thousands of people are on their way to Incirlik US base in Turkey to besiege it.
Local reports claim that Al Qaida, Nusra and Hamas are being carried next to Palestine&Turkish flags.
Keep an eye on this development
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@BASSAMVA
@murad_ismael
what a crock of shite. I have personally visited 3 new (from the ground-up) hospitals in the last 5 years here. Not including the half dozen corona isolation hospitals that have been built.
They’ve even built an entirely new university system from scratch.
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@whiterosegreen
It’s astonishing. If NATO and the EU didn’t need Turkey so badly as an Eastern buffer I can’t imagine they’d be treated with such deference.
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@_sHx_
Not the case. The figures in the past have been broadly in line with both UN and Israeli counts:
Why are you trying to downplay this when there are literally dozens of videos coming out every day of dead kids pulled from rubble?
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