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@arisroussinos

War reporter turned IR PhD student, aspiring shepherd. Interests: nationalism, ethnic conflict & revolution in theory & practice. Author of REBELS (2014)

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    Oct 11

    Me for on Turkey's invasion of northeast Syria, the pan-European condemnation for Erdogan, and America's looming moral culpability for ethnic cleansing:

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    Jaish al-Islam- currently being deployed by Turkey in NE Syria- released this statement at the time, following Kurdish outcry (largely ignored internationally at the time)

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  3. 18 minutes ago

    Worth remembering in light of this worrying statement that the same Turkish-backed rebel groups used in this offensive used chlorine shells against the YPG in Aleppo during their 3-year siege of the Kurdish Sheikh Maqsud district:

    Breaking: Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar says he has received information that "terrorist organisations will perpetrate chemical weapons attacks" and try to blame the Turkish Armed Forces.
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  4. 55 minutes ago

    Concerning

    Defence Minister Hulusi Akar: "The terror organisation may use chemical weapons and blame us."
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    13 hours ago

    I don’t know how many times I have read this sentence in my life.

    "Turkey’s western partners should incentivize Ankara to return to an agenda of domestic political reforms, which would also tackle the country’s longstanding Kurdish problem."
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    1 hour ago

    Turkish special forces raid a house in Adana city to arrest people who posted against Turkish invasion in Syria on social media.

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    11 hours ago

    A father and daughter protecting IDPs in Hasakeh.

    Armenian father Hofsip Sarkis, 53 yd, from Serekaniya city and member of HPC Community Protection Forces. His daughter Anoish Sarkis (her name means Sugar in Armenian language)19 yd, YPJ fighter and fought…
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  8. 1 hour ago

    The SDF’s Armenian Martyr Nubar Ozanian battalion fighting Turkey and Turkish proxies in Ras al-Ain

    Armenian SDF unit fighting in SereKaniye together with their Kurd, Syrian and Assyrian brothers agianst the only nation in the world with no history but criminal record. …
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    1 hour ago

    Guerilla group called "Party of Revolutionary Communities" released a statement calling to intense its sabotage actions inside turkey: "It is the day on which everything, everything and everyone belonging to the colonialist fascist state will be put on target. "

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    2 hours ago

    Alawi martyr who said before his martyrdom we no difference between , Arab, Syrian, Alawi, from the Syrian city of Latakia, a member of the Syrian Democratic Forces, was martyred yesterday in the resistance against the aggression in Seri Kaniye

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    1 hour ago
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    Always find it amazing that Aeschylus' tomb doesn't say anything about his plays, but mentions his service at Marathon

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    13 hours ago

    Donald Trump here achieves the unlikely feat of making the wartime letters sent by former First Sea Lord, Jacky Fisher, to Germany’s Admiral von Tirpitz seems completely sane and normal.

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    1 hour ago

    🇪🇺🤝🇬🇧 Where there is a will, there is a - we have one! It’s a fair and balanced agreement for the EU and the UK and it is testament to our commitment to find solutions. I recommend that endorses this deal.

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    1 hour ago

    News agency Reuters reports that an EU official says a Brexit deal is done

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    5 hours ago

    Air Force has now the munitions capable of dealing with Hardened-Structures, as it got AASM Hammer precision-guided bombs & SCALP-EG (Storm Shadow) long-range cruise missiles in addition to other types of concrete-piercing bombs that will be used on MIGs.

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    4 hours ago

    reported few months ago that the Air Force had completely received (50) SCALP-EG cruise missiles For the Rafale fighter jets, also it was reported that was negotiating with on purchase of unkown addition number of the missile 2yrs ago.

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  17. 2 hours ago

    2500 years ago the small and weak Greek states were invaded by the vastly superior forces of a great empire & its local proxies. Athens lost its capital, its temples, its civilians all fled to safety. In two last-ditch battles, using superior skill & morale, everything changed.

    Congrats to on marking 2500 years since & , paving the way for . Honored to attend today’s launch of year-long celebrations w/President Pavlopoulos, …
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    17 hours ago

    Recall earlier last week, US officials were downplaying Trump’s disastrous order as only involving <50 people on the border for a limited Turkish incursion. Ten days later we are executing emergency “break glass” evacuation procedure reserved for an extreme worst-case scenario.

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    3 hours ago

    C-130 returning to after paratroopers drop in military exercise Atsalino Velos. Also F16s participated in the exercise.

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    5 hours ago

    Three F16 jets flew over as part of joint exercise

    ΒΙΝΤΕΟ: Ήρθαν τα ελληνικά F16 για την άσκηση "Ατσάλινο βέλος" της Ε.Φ | News
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    12 hours ago

    Aris makes an important point. In this war, we can expect each side to call themselves the good guy & their enemy, the bad guy. But what do victims of the conflict who are of neither group say? Ask the Yazidis. They will overwhelmingly tell you it was the YPG/PKK who saved them

    Listen to what the Yazidis said about the PKK and YPG back when they rescued them from ISIS in 2014: This was the precise day US forces first met the YPG on Mt Sinjar, by…
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