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20241223 - news - Turkey's FM meets Syria’s new leader, calls for lifting of global sanctions
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20241224 - news - Kurds Under Threat in Syria as Turkey Launches Attacks & Kills Journalists After Assad Regime Falls
As foreign powers look to shape Syria's political landscape after the toppling of the Assad regime, the country's Kurdish population is in the spotlight. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continues to threaten the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which Turkey regards as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers' Party militants who have fought an insurgency against the Turkish state for 40 years. Turkey's foreign minister recently traveled to Damascus to meet with Syria's new de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the Islamist group HTS. "Turkey is a major threat to Kurds and to democratic experiments that Kurds have been implementing in the region starting in 2014," says Ozlem Goner, steering committee member of the Emergency Committee for Rojava, who details the persecution of Kurds, the targeting of journalists, and which powerful countries are looking to control the region. "Turkey, Israel and the U.S. collectively are trying to carve out this land, and Kurds are under threat."
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20241224 - analysis - US likely to reduce troop presence in Syria under Trump