Turkey begins military offensive in Syria, Erdogan announces
Turkey begins military offensive into Syria after US pulled back troops - CNNPolitics
trump will be remembered as the spineless coward who turned his back on our allies....the Kurds....
So here's my question. Per Trump, 100% of the ISIS fighters have been captured.
Who then are the Turks invading Kurdish held Syria to fight?
The Kurdish issue boils down to the Kurds wanting their own country, and Syria, Turkey and Iraq saying "No".
Turkey's issue is that they believe the Syrian Kurds, now that they don't have ISIS to fight, are now helping the Turkish Kurds.
According to Turkey, they are creating a 30km buffer zone of control, similar to what Israel did with Lebanon back in the 80's/90's.
It remains to be seen what they intend to do with any Kurdish fighters in their zone of control, or if the fighters will even remain there, or instead retreat to US aided territory.
The US moved a total of 50-100 troops, probably mostly advisers. They are still in Syria, just outside the Turkish intended zone of control.