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Deadly Turkey air strikes shatter Trump's hours-old 'ceasefire' deal
Deadly Turkish air strikes Friday shattered an hours-old US-brokered deal to stop Ankara’s military offensive against Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria.
The ceasefire announced late Thursday was meant to provide a pause for the evacuation of Kurdish fighters from the battleground border town of Ras al-Ain and other areas Turkey wants to control along its border with Syria.
The five-day suspension looked designed to help Turkey achieve its main territorial goals without fighting but its Syrian proxies continued to clash with Kurdish fighters Friday and an air strike killed five civilians.
The ceasefire announced late Thursday was meant to provide a pause for the evacuation of Kurdish fighters from the battleground border town of Ras al-Ain and other areas Turkey wants to control along its border with Syria.
The five-day suspension looked designed to help Turkey achieve its main territorial goals without fighting but its Syrian proxies continued to clash with Kurdish fighters Friday and an air strike killed five civilians.
[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/deadly-turkey-air-strikes-shatter-trumps-hours-old-ceasefire-deal/|]
So a ceasefire that was all about forcing the Kurds out of their homeland - at the same time Trump was giving a not to Turkey re ethnic cleansing - was always going to look like this. It is sickening.
