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At least 260 Kurdish militiamen had been killed in Afrin area since the start of Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch, the country’s general staff reported on January 23.
The general staff revealed that 3 Turkish soldiers were killed and one injured in the clashes. Late on the same day, reports appeared that the fourth Turkish soldier was killed.
Meanwhile, the strategic mount of Birsaya east of Afrin remained contested despite repeated attempts of the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (TFSA) to capture it. On January 24, clashes continued in the area.
In turn, pro-Kurdish sources claim that over 37 members of the TFSA were killed, 2 armoured vehicles and a vehicle belonging to the Turkish forces were destroyed in the same period.
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Is this turkish patriottic reporting? Like they have to do under Erdogan’s threat?
You can read an abridged version of these “guidelines” below:
Government instructions to Turkish media:
1. It should be reported that this operation is wholly directed against terrorist organisations and the protection of civilians
2. Foreign news sources will use PKK, PYD, YPG and Islamic State sources against Turkey
3. Be aware of Turkey’s national interests when reading international news sources, which may be negative to Turkey
4. Ignore ‘information pollution’ that depicts attacks on civilians, and remind the audience of the care taken by the army to avoid civilian casualties
5. Emphasise the operation is not just against the PKK/PYD but also IS
6. Video journalists should refrain from visiting conflict zones as reporting endangers soldiers
7. Remind audiences the operation is being carried out with weapons systems designed and built in Turkey
8. Do not publish images that endanger Turkish soldiers and not to share the tactics of the Turkish army
9. Do not consider information obtained from the enemy side as trustworthy
10. Do not draw attention to anti-Afrin operation protests and statements by the domestic political extensions of the PKK
11. Be careful while reporting news of potential martyrs
12. Do not report foreign press reports verbatim
13. Views/quotes should be sought from informed and experienced people
14. Do not report news that boosts the morale of the PKK/PYD
15. Media should contact Bekir Bozdag [deputy prime minister] and Mahir Unal [AKP spokesman] for correct information in order to be able to inform the public.
* abridged translation from the original Turkish
From: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-press-restrictions-afrin-olive-branch-1109543029
Meanwhile, even AMN reports SDF forces have entered West Aleppo cs near Mount Simeon. Likely they want to liberatie Dayr Simeon, a Yezidi kurish village and Days Izza.
This game of chess that is played at the moment, is being played in the correct manner….. with Turkey fixing some issueswith PKK Syria doesn’t have to fight the YPG-PKK-U.S. Proxy….. Turkey is allowed to fight the Kurds by NATO, so Turkey is the right country to get SDF-Proxy to the negotiation table (forgive me if I’m wrong but with all the disinfo these years….). If Assad had gone against the YPG it would have meant serious repercussions by some third party and most of all Assad wants to keep Syria for All Syrians, now Assad got his hands free to clean up the last remnants of ISIS & FSA. Don’t get me wrong I am in no one’s favor but I am very thankful for every warrior that have put his life on the line to fight some low life Satanic-Daesh-Headchopping Demons that dared to call themselves muslim, which is an insult to Muslims. Putin plays his game smart: keep your men in the field and stay on the background. Let the opposition make mistakes….. which they have done overwelmingly. Here in Europe more & more people got to know the truth….. I’ve been following this war since the beginning, and a lot of things got very very clear. This is a very nasty and smelly situation. And if it wasn’t for all the misery that the West brought to the Middle East (kids & women duped the most), I even would be glad that I got to know what this Europe I lived in for so many years stands for…… soon I will leave Europe for Asia… I’m done with their lies, a lie has no legs and most of all I hate LIARS. Let us be brothers, there are more urgent things happening on this earth that need our attention (and I don’t mean this Climate-Change fairy tale), than poor people fighting eachother for the wealth and power of a very few elitists, which above all are a bunch of pathetic desperate suicidal idiots, that don’t like to see their power crumbling before their eyes….. In that perspective: what a beautiful age we live in. Let wisdom and wise decisions prevail…. for all parties involved. Stay sharp……. and to Leaders: Be a righteous Leader first of all which can be hard, I understand that.
Here is the deal. Thes USA and Israel want a foothold in Syria, and they accomplish that by supporting the SDF. Now that the idiotic turks attacked the kurds they messed it up for the americans. The USA is in a no win situation. They expect the kurds to fight and die for their cause, but when the kurds ara attacked from behind ang getting killed they don’t get help. The kurds are not stupid. They should give over all the east Syian territories to the Syrian government, and have all their armed forces against the turks. The USA will be squeezed out of Syria, the kurds will work out their differences with the governmetn, and the Russians will tell the turks to get out or else….
Russia and Putin are controlled by Western bankers. The Russians are not in Syria to defend Syrian or Kurdish or Turkish or even RUSSIAN interests.
Putin himself is an anglozionist.
Putin and his oligarch collaborators are propping up the anglozionist regime by BACKING the anglozionist DOLLAR with Russian oil and gas, and Russian international arms sales, all of which are conducted and transacted in anglozionist dollars.
It is disingenuous to claim that the Russians are doing all that they can to stop the Americans or the Israelis under the circumstances. Putin can STOP the Israelis and the Americans without firing a single bullet let alone an S-400 rocket, simply by repudiating the DOLLAR. STOP selling valuable Russian oil and gas for anglozionist dollars. The Russians just sold Russian gas to the Americans CHEAPER than the Americans themselves produce it for, in America: http://www.fort-russ.com/2018/01/sanctions-galore-unless-we-need-you.html?m=1
The dollar is WORTHLESS and ILLEGAL according to the Constitution of the United States itself! All Putin and the Russians have to do is, cite the US Constitution and pull the plug on the economic foundation of the the anglozionist MIC by publicly acquiescing the ILLEGALITY of the FRNs a.k.a the US dollar.
NO ONE is going to fire nukes in anger to Russia for the “crime” of respecting the US Constitution, as some disingenuous trolls are suggesting!
Yes, Why does Putin keep supporting America and Israel if he’s not a zionist? Why does the Russian government give away Russian natural resources and Russian arms essentially for free (I.e. against illegal thus worthless dollars) when it can turn off the economic spigot that feeds the anglozionist Beast?
The Russian central bank has been owned and controlled by the City of London banking establishment since the creation of the new Russian Constitution under Yeltsin. The Russians are forbidden to issue their own currency the rouble without permission from Western bankers, and the Russians can only buy US Treasuries with the dollars they get for their oil, not gold. There are more American dollar assets than Russian rouble-denominated wealth in Russia:
http://anonhq.com/checkmate-central-bank-russia/
http://www.pravdareport.com/russia/economics/30-12-2014/129431-usa_russia_central_bank-0/
Russians collaborate with the Americans, the Israelis and the Saudis. NO Israeli or American jet was ever prevented from bombing and killing Syrians. Russians sell sophisticated S-400s both to NATO member Turkey and the Saudi Arabs who recently crucified a child to death for refusing Islam.
Russia would not compromise Russian national security by selling S-400s to NATO unless Russia was in bed with America and Israel.
Even the Soviet Union effectively BACKED the American dollar with Russian oil and gas by selling them for its purported enemy’s financial means of mass extortion a.k.a the dollar, so there is nothing new under the sun.
Why is Putin selling Russian oil for dollars or other Western fiat currencies which include the euro and, yes, the yen?
It would be in ALL Russian residents’ interests to demand Russian roubles or gold in trade for Russian oil and gas. This would force buyers to sell dollars and euros in order to acquire roubles which thus had become necessary to buy Russian oil, thereby raising the value of the rouble–just like this process does the same for the dollar.
The Russian oligarchs that some are intimating their deference to, would also personally greatly benefit from the rise in value of their rouble-denominated Russian assets. Unless they were not truly RUSSIAN oligarchs, yes?
That Putin and the so-called Russian oligarchs are refusing to demand roubles or gold for Russian oil PROVES that they are traitors serving foreign interests, in view of the common knowledge facts I delineated above.
Note: My aim is to expose the fact that the ruling classes the world over are in reality co-conspirators working in tandem against the interests of their very own respective populations they rule over.
So
Putin=Trump
and
USA=EU=Israel=Russia=KSA=ISIS
Never forget.