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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 536

Turkey-Kurdistan relations

Fighters with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) inspect damaged and abandoned military vehicles and equipment at the Qamishli international airport, formerly a joint Syrian-Russian military base, in northeastern Syria's city of Qamishli on December 9, 2024. (Delil souleiman / AFP)
December 22, 2024, 12:07 pm
As Turkey moves in following Assad’s fall, Syria’s Kurds are on the defensive
After rebels sweep to power in Damascus, Syrian Kurdish leader asks Trump to prevent northern incursion by Ankara — which views Kurdish factions as a national security threat
By Orhan Qereman, TOM PERRY and Tuvan Gumrukcu
Mourners carry the bodies of Kurdish victims killed the previous night by Turkish-backed fighters amid Nowruz New Year celebrations in Jindayris in the rebel-held province of Aleppo, during a mass funeral in Jindayris on March 21, 2023. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP)
March 21, 2023, 7:08 pm
Killing of Kurds in northern Syria sparks protests, tensions
Thousands take to streets after four Syrian Kurds killed by Turkish-backed armed group in town of Jinderis as they celebrated Nowruz holiday
By GHAITH ALSAYED
File: People look at a site damaged by Turkish airstrikes that hit an electricity station in the village of Taql Baql, in Hasakeh province, Syria, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022 (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)
December 10, 2022, 7:19 pm
What’s at stake as Turkey threatens to escalate conflict with Syrian fighters?
After deadly blast in Istanbul last month, attributed by Turkey to illegal Kurdish groups, specter of incursion raised as Ankara responds with airstrikes against militants in Syria
By Suzan Fraser and Bassam Mroue
Fighters of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) take part in a military parade in the US-protected Al-Omar oil field in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor on March 23, 2021, marking the second annual anniversary of Baghouz's liberation from the Islamic State (IS) group. (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
November 21, 2022, 3:18 pm
3 killed as Syrian Kurdish militants fire rockets at Turkish border town
Turkey says child and teacher among dead after high school, house and border gate struck; rights group says Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces responsible for attack
By Suzan Fraser
Illustrative: Iraqi and Turkish tanks take part in a military exercise near the border with Iraqi Kurdistan at Silopi district in Sirnak on September 26, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ilyas Akengin)
June 17, 2020, 10:20 am
Turkey enters northern Iraq in ground operation against Kurdish rebels
Ankara says its first known airborne-and-land offensive in Iraqi territory is in line with international law following insurgents’ attacks on its military
By AP
In this July 30, 2010 file photo, Pakistani army soldiers help an elderly villager evacuated from a flooded area in Nowshera, Pakistan. As Turkish forces invaded northern Syria in early October 2019, supporters of the offensive launched an online misinformation campaign. Dozens of misleading images claiming to show Turkey’s soldiers cuddling babies, feeding hungry toddlers and carrying elderly women, including this image from 2010, spread across Twitter and Instagram where they were liked, retweeted and viewed thousands of times. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad, File)
November 8, 2019, 10:40 pm
Amid assault on Kurds, Twitter saw surge of Turkish propaganda photos
Online campaign led by multiple accounts follows pattern on social media when controversial, international events erupt
By AMANDA SEITZ
Women walk on the streets of Kobani, Syria. (Ziv Genesove/Times of Israel)
October 28, 2019, 2:17 pm
On Syria’s border, a snapshot of Kurdish town’s 2018 calm ahead of current storm
In Kobani last year, The Times of Israel found a Kurdish people interested in Israeli life and hopeful for a peaceful future. That hope was to be dashed
By Ziv Genesove
Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Amy Klobuchar during the fourth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by The New York Times and CNN at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, October 15, 2019. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
October 16, 2019, 5:45 am
Democratic hopeful Klobuchar at debate: Trump’s Syria pullout endangers Israel
In criticism of US troop withdrawal, candidate says America’s allies now think president is not true to country’s allies
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Mourners attend a funeral, for Kurdish political leader Hevrin Khalaf and others including civilians and Kurdish fighters, in the northeastern Syrian Kurdish town of Derik, known as al-Malikiyah in Arabic, on October 13, 2019 (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
October 13, 2019, 11:21 pm
Kurds announce deal with Syria on troop deployment to confront Turkey
Abandoned by the US and facing possible ‘genocide,’ Kurdish fighters will move towards a compromise involving Assad and Russia, leader says
By Rouba El Husseini
This picture taken on October 13, 2019 from the Turkish city of Ceylanpinar shows smoke rising and explosions in the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ayn as fighting rages along the border on the fifth day of a Turkish offensive in Syria (Ozan KOSE / AFP)
October 13, 2019, 8:09 pm
US says up to 1,000 troops to leave north Syria as dozens more civilians die
Defense secretary says move comes after the US learned Turkey pressing further in than had been expected; Erdogan declares threats of sanctions won’t stop offensive
By AFP
An elderly man is evacuated from a building in Akcakale, a town near the Turkish border with Syria, on October 13, 2019, after it was hit by a rocket reported to be fired from within Syria. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP)
October 13, 2019, 1:24 pm
UN: Turkey assault has displaced 130,000 and number could triple
Humanitarian agency says it’s preparing for scenario in which up to 400,000 flee Kurdish areas
By AFP
Turkish soldiers and Turkey-backed Syrian fighters ride on an army tank near the Turkish village of Akcakale along the border with Syria on October 11, 2019, as they prepare to take part in the Turkish-led assault on northeastern Syria (Bakr ALKASEM / AFP)
October 12, 2019, 8:32 pm
Turkey’s takeover of northern Syria all but certain, but will come at a price
Erdogan’s forces face formidable opponent in Kurds, who are fighting in their own territory on their own terms, drawing blood that will test support at home for Turkish president
By Avi Issacharoff
Turkey-backed Syrian fighters walk near the Turkish village of Akcakale along the border with Syria on October 11, 2019, as they prepare to take part in the Turkish-led assault on northeastern Syria. (Bakr Alkasem/AFP)
October 12, 2019, 5:49 am
US troops come under fire as Turkish forces advance in Syria
No American soldiers injured in Turkish artillery strike near small outpost, as casualties mount, international criticism intensifies and 100,000 flee violence in Syrian Kurdistan
By Mehmet Guzel and Sarah El Deeb
Syrian Arab and Kurdish civilians flee with their belongings amid Turkish bombardment on Syria's northeastern town of Ras al-Ain on October 9, 2019. (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
October 11, 2019, 6:55 am
Turkey’s Syria offensive could displace over a million Kurds, top analyst warns
Jonathan Spyer says Erdogan’s army indiscriminately shelling civilian areas, though unlikely to carry out massacres; believes Kurds will reject Israeli offer of humanitarian aid
By Raphael Ahren
Syrian Kurds gather around a US armored vehicle during a demonstration against Turkish threats, next to a US-led international coalition base on the outskirts of Ras al-Ain town in Syria's Hasakeh province near the Turkish border, on October 6, 2019. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)
October 11, 2019, 2:24 am
Ex-top security official: US Syria pullout bad news, but we can defend ourselves
While many are fretting about Trump’s isolationism and abandonment of allies, Yaakov Amidror insists: ‘I don’t think Israel needs to be worried’
By Raphael Ahren
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