Gargari

@Gargaristan

Mapper and non-professional reporter. I write and research mostly about Kurds, Assyrians, tribal dynamics, politics and conflicts in the Middle East.

Joined December 2016
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    Feb 4

    Some of the maps I published on Twitter so far. My maps cover the topics of conflicts and ethnicity in the MENA region with a special focus on the Kurdish struggle for freedom.

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    22 hours ago

    With the liberation of , lost an important fortress in the desert. However, militants still maintain a big presence in a region between E. to W. using & Ulayyaniyah zones to move anywhere. presence can be summarized in 3 main "pockets":

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    Nov 21

    Scientist Runs Over Man With Truck.

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    23 hours ago

    People keep giving wild numbers on civilians in the Hajin area. It’s not 50,000, it’s not even 10,000. It’s 6,000 civilians roughly.

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  5. 23 hours ago

    Interesting data about the Kurdish insurgency in Turkey. The question is, what are the causes for this development? Increasingly well-armed military, changed command structure since the coup, less PKK recruits or supply difficulties due to the devastation of Kurdish cities?

    Replying to @KinanabuNidal @Gargaristan
    I looked at the casualties since 2015 according to International Crisis Group. Ratio of deaths army/insurgency was nearly 1 for 1 back in 2015 (208/261). Then 1 for 2 in 2016 and now 1 for 2.5 in 2017 and 2018.
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  6. Nov 22

    This is another example how Apoists profit from Turkeys institutionalized hate against Kurds. When Şingal was surrounded by IS, Turkey would have had the power to help them. It didn't, because it was Êzîdîs getting slaughtered. So PKK did it and gained influence among Êzîdîs.

    YBS and YJS forces and also the youth units established after ISIS attacked Shingal in 2014. The Units of Ezidxan growing everyday.
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    Nov 21

    Shameful: A bill to recognize the genocide was rejected 58-38 in Israel...ironically under the claim that since the UN doesn't recognize the genocide then it's not a genocide. You'd think something as obvious as recognizing ISIS genocide of Yazidis would be consensus

    הסיסמא שהימין אוהב לזעוק לא נחלתו של…
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    Nov 20

    While it's important the represents the communal diversity of N/E , it's already most diverse force and getting more diverse. Seems to be a sentiment in DC now that needs to be sidelined and SDF "Arabified." That has...problematic historical connotations.

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  9. Nov 20

    (To avoid misunderstanding, I'm referring to the massive amount of stolen olives, not crimes in general; although these are close to zero just as well)

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  10. Nov 20

    And meanwhile, there is not a single word by western journalists. As if this is not fucking worth a report?!

    Turkey is pushing crimes in occupied Efrîn to a new level and the aim clearly is the extermination of the region as we know it. Turkey and allies destroyed ancient cultural heritage and nature, drove…
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  11. Nov 20

    Turkey is pushing crimes in occupied Efrîn to a new level and the aim clearly is the extermination of the region as we know it. Turkey and allies destroyed ancient cultural heritage and nature, drove out 160,000 and is squeezing and plundering every inch of this fallen paradise.

    The olive harvest has total value of products at 200 Mn dollars. The total olive harvest this year was to be handed over to a Turkey-backed council in the district under the guidance of agriculture authorities from Turkey who then would sell and "give the earnings to the owners”
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  12. Nov 19

    Indeed, reconstruction efforts of SDF and coalition concentrated more on the areas along the Euphrates. As the tribes in this area are more hostile towards SDF, there was a priority to show performance there, but this strategy apparently backfires now.

    There are serious protests in Shaddadi since mid day. The issue is that not enough attention is being given. There are electricity and plumbing problems, and almost no reconstruction. All reconstruction is happening in the Euphrates area.
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    Nov 19

    It is a monstrously interesting interview indeed:

    My latest monstrous interview: with a Syrian fighter from the Idlib Shi'i village of al-Fu'a, currently in the Syrian wing of the Iranian-backed Iraqi group Kata'ib Hezbollah (like Harakat al-Nujaba', Kata'ib Hezbollah has a special Syrian wing)
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    Nov 19

    in collaboration with . The plight of the , the Russo-Turkish war of 1828-1829. Full resolution:

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    Nov 18

    These clashes are all over the city now. They're using a serious amount of ammunition. All reports of dead Turkish soldiers as it stands are false.

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  16. Nov 18

    Situation in occupied Efrîn is getting out of control as occupants turn on each other:

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    Footage from tonight in where the infighting continue between several jihadists factions and / mercenaries. Clashes are getting heavier Ahrar al-Sharqiya refused…
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  17. Nov 18

    They literally are criminals, just as their Turkmen counterpart. Also, these clashes are at best partially about ethnicity, they mostly concentrate around possibilities for enrichment, like smuggling routes or villages to loot.

    These clashes are the result of Turkey favoring Turkmen rebels for months while treating Arab rebels like criminals, stoking tensions between the two
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  18. Nov 18

    Really interesting how suddenly all of the former opposition supporters in the Middle East want to create an alliance with Assad.

    Qatar's deputy prime minister says the Middle East can have a new coalition: Iraq, Iran, Qatar, Turkey, and Syria
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    Nov 17

    For 3 days now Turk Army blocks bread trucks to enter Hêsen Dêra village of Efrîn. They stormed the village, searched at least 15 homes & kidnapped at least 15 people for the charge of 'dealing with Kurdish Self administration'. Nobody knows what happened to the civilians

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    Nov 17

    Many probably dismissed these as isolated cases before and at the beginning of the assault on Afrin. What is obvious now is that the prospect of looting Kurdish property in Afrin was one of the things used to lure recruits into Turkey's mercenary groups in .

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    One of Turkey's jihadist's voice recording trying to recruit someone leaked: "Whenever you enter a village, anything in the village is permitted for you to take. [...] If you don't have a…
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    Nov 16

    Thread. Here for ones who called me and Mekut lairs another market set up in Efrin this time a foreigner who somehow acquired a lot of property. Of course he just a regular civilian selling his loot.

    Replying to @Mekut_Mallet @_Caki__
    There is yet another market similar to the other. There are 8 items from 1 man named Mahmood abul-Zahra' al-Muhajir. "Muhajir" means migrant. His items includes this motorbike, which has an ISIS…
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