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@TheorePhysics

Feylî Kurd. PhD in Physics, Researcher at Cambridge Univ. Developing an unhealthy interest in linguistics. Chronically homeless. Multilingual, yet illiterate.

Cambridge, England
Joined July 2013
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    24 Mar 2016

    The status of various Kurdish dialects. Some big dialects are threatened if we do not do anything!

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    1 hour ago

    Instead, Washington spent the last 2 years squabbling over 2000 or 500 troops in Syria, when the number of troops had almost no bearing on the future of northern Syria. After ISIS was gone, we had a political/governance problem there but no tools to fix that problem.

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    1 hour ago

    Yes, Trump doublecrossed the Kurds, but really a total lack of foreign policy imagination created this crisis. Trump wasted the last 30 months. Could have flooded northern Syria w political/diplomatic resources to find a governance structure that both Kurds/Turks could accept.

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    49 minutes ago

    Mr. President: With all due respect, none of this is true. I’d recommend having meetings with your experts and policy team before making historic life-and-death decisions. Making such decisions after a one-off call from a foreign leader is malpractice.

    The United States was supposed to be in Syria for 30 days, that was many years ago. We stayed and got deeper and deeper into battle with no aim in sight. When I arrived in Washington, ISIS was running rampant in the area. We quickly defeated 100% of the ISIS Caliphate,.....
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  5. 1 hour ago

    To suggest the alternative was "go to war with Turkey" is beyond ludicrous. US managed to achieve so much with diplomacy while having a backstabbing President, imagine how they could do if they had a President that was interested in the situation.

    What is happening in Northern Syria was always the predictable dilemma for the US. Go to war with Turkey over the Kurds? Or find another - not nearly as effective- way to fight ISIS? Our strategy failed to appreciate Turkey’s strategic priorities.
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  6. 2 hours ago

    I seriously hope that Trump's Syria decision will finally push enough senate Republicans over the edge for Impeachment. Do you really want such a loose cannon to be your President for another 4+ years? But then again, I don't have high hope for that idiotic bunch.

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  7. 3 hours ago

    SDF should invite international media from all over the world to come and document Turkish crimes. There shouldn't be silence like in Afrin.

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  8. 3 hours ago

    Impeach the mother fucked hard! Follow it up with a lifelong imprisonment for all his crimes.

    The United States was supposed to be in Syria for 30 days, that was many years ago. We stayed and got deeper and deeper into battle with no aim in sight. When I arrived in Washington, ISIS was running rampant in the area. We quickly defeated 100% of the ISIS Caliphate,.....
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    6 hours ago

    I can't think of many examples where such a minimal presence of US forces (and intensive diplomatic work) could prevent such a devastating conflict. Beyond geopolitics, this is about the potential for thousands of needless deaths because the president is bored.

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    4 hours ago

    Pentagon ‘completely blindsided’ by White House order to pull U.S. forces back from northern Syria green-lighting Turkish invasion: U.S. officials

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    6 hours ago

    No seriously, the U.S. is not only going to abandon the Kurds. The U.S. effectively made sure the Kurds dismantled their defensive fortifications before abandoning them.

    We are not expecting the US to protect NE . But people here are owed an explanation regarding security mechanism deal, destruction of fortifications and failure of US to fulfill their commitments.
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    5 hours ago

    One former SDF fighter told me before that there will be an all out 600 kilometer border war if Turkey attacks. "If one bullet is fired [in the east of the Euphrates], all of the border [from Derik to Kobane] will be undermined [on fire] – it will be a fight for life or death"

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    5 hours ago

    Det her er det vildeste forræderi. Kurderne indvilger i at fjerne deres skyttegrave og tunge våben ved den tyrkiske grænse for at vise fredsvilje. Nu forlader USA området og Tyrkiet kan rulle uhindret ind og invadere områderne. Skam over Trump!

    Based on our confidence in the efforts in the Security Mechanism agreement, we implemented all our commitments to remove military fortifications between Tal Abyad & SereKaniye, withdraw combat forces with heavy weapons, risking a security vacum as a result of the agreement.
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    5 hours ago

    amnesty netherlands says dutch gov should contact turkey to insist it respects int'l law. i don't know what to say. the dutch gov (and the eu) will close its eyes because refugees and trade. its interest in human rights is nothing but .

    ❗️Extreem zorgwekkend nieuws. De Nederlandse regering moet zo snel mogelijk contact opnemen met de Turkse overheid om er op aan te dringen dat Turkije, anders dan nu,…
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  15. 5 hours ago

    This is a topic that most Americans don't know anything about. Random to see Chris Sacca be so informed about what's going on.

    What this means: Trump just gave Turkey the go-ahead to slaughter two million Kurds.
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  16. 6 hours ago

    I said this would happen months ago. But I don't deserve credit, Turkey's plans were obvious to most. As I said long ago, if the US cannot give hard guarantees then SDF must prepare for war instead of destroying defense position as war would come no matter what.

    Basically the US persuaded the SDF Kurds to dismantle defensive positions that deterred Turkey, promising security guarantees in exchange. Then once the SDF Kurds became defenseless, Trump gave Erdogan the green light to invade. Hard to imagine a more sinister sequence of events. …
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  17. 6 hours ago

    What a news to wake up to. Kurdistan must prepare for all out war.

    The WH statement tonight on Syria after Trump spoke with Erdogan demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of anything happening on the ground. The “United States” is not holding any ISIS detainees.…
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  18. 18 hours ago

    I can't decide whether Turkey or the US is most pathetic in this story.

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  19. 20 hours ago

    The state has practically legitimacy to do anything it wants. He once justified state massacres by saying that the state has "monopoly on violence". Yes there are no "Kurdish cities", as the state does not approve of the concept. Accept it or die.

    There is no such thing as a Kurdish city. There are cities that are under the sovereignty of the Syrian Arab Republic. If we’re going down the route you want to take, let me kindly remind you that Istanbul is the world’s largest Kurdish city—no other city has a higher # of Kurds. …
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  20. 20 hours ago

    People are trying to asks whether, for example, what China is doing to Uyghurs is not "demographic change". But they forget that believes in Atatürkian state-facism. The state owns everything and can legally ethnically re-engineer any place as it wishes.

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  21. 20 hours ago

    It's very cute to play stupid Selim. It is indeed a very hard and puzzling question you are asking. But don't despair. If every dumb dumb that's not on Turkish state payroll find the answer to be quite obvious, you'll get there too in time.

    How is it demographic change when Syrians return to Syria? Or, by the converse, how is it not demographic change when Syrians don’t return to Syria and stay in Turkey indefinitely instead?
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