Jack Shahine

@jackshahine

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Joined August 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Oct 11

    BREAKING is under heavy indiscriminate Turkish bombardment at the moment. Large civilian displacement movement from the city towards southern outskirts.. People need help/most of them would be in the open air/No aid

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  2. Dec 12

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    BREAKING: Our resolution to recognize and commemorate the just passed the United States Senate.
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    Dec 12

    1. Erdogan again threatened to repopulate the border region in NE Syria with over one million Syrians not native to the area (a process that has reportedly already begun).

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  4. Retweeted
    Dec 12

    This is what happens when the United States abandons principled diplomacy. Trump’s relationship with Erdogan has undercut any serious effort to nudge Turkey in a more constructive direction. As in most other areas of foreign policy at the moment, it’s only getting worse.

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  5. Retweeted
    Dec 12

    4. Erdogan provided an immediate briefing on NATO meetings to Vladimir Putin. (Kremlin readout: “The Turkish president briefed Vladimir Putin on his meetings at the recent NATO summit in London.”)

    Telephone conversation with President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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  6. Retweeted
    Dec 9

    New: Turkey has begun shuttling Syrian refugees into NE Syria despite dangerous security conditions in the border towns—the first sign Erdogan is moving forward with his plan to resettle some 3M Syrians into formerly Kurdish territory.

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  7. Dec 10

    Deliberate demographic change, theft, and seizure of Afrini properties by Turkey and its affiliated armed groups in the Syrian-Kurdish region.

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  8. Dec 10

    Turkey's announced and clear policy of ongoing ethnic cleansing & demographic change inside Syria's Kurdish territories. Turkish regime's working on resettling one million people inside Syria!

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  9. Dec 8

    On 2 Dec, 10 Afrini IDPs, incl 8 children were killed by a brutal Turkish shelling targeted children's playground in Tal-Rifaat, N Aleppo. Their classmates expressing love & compassion for their martyred friends by holding their photos &placing roses on their desks

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  10. Dec 3

    The Truth, spoken...

    Macron says Turkey 'sometimes works with ISIS proxies'
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  11. Dec 2

    This 3 years old child (Abdul-Fatah Aliko) was killed today by the Turkish deliberate bombardment on the town of Tal-Rifaat. The child originally from Mabata in Afrin. He was displaced with his family during the Turkish military invasion of Afrin, last year.

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  12. Dec 2

    The Turkish regime wasn't satisfied of killing & displacing Kurds of Afrin; Continued killing Afrin's children in their displacement refuges, in Tal-Rifaat today! Those children were killed today by the Turkish deliberate shelling while they were out of school!

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  13. Nov 29

    Locals of Ras al-Ain are afraid to return to their hometown after Turkish military & its armed groups have taken control over the area Which is experiencing infrastructure damage due to Turkish military invasion & looting civilian properties.

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  14. Nov 20

    Turkey's deliberately & intentionally targeting & terrorizing Syrian-Kurdish civilians in their previously safe towns & villages! Turkish regime's been doing this long in Afrin, now in Kobani & northern Syria. When it regards Turkey, the World prefers silence button!

    Our reporter: Two civilians martyred and some others are injured,…
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  15. Nov 14

    . writes: "The collapse of the SDF and the autonomous administration would be the gravest defeat for the Syrian opposition movement to date in Syria's devastating conflict." Last Best Hope for Syria's Revolution Is in Danger

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  16. Nov 13

    Great work! As always..

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    1/ This is big: Documents I obtained show compound in Barisha had internet connection. Internet installed on 1/2/2019. Connection username:…
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  17. Nov 11

    A bloody & terrible day for NE Syrian people There's a direct & systematic targeting of NE Syria local & indigenous people. Northern Syria was one of relatively safest areas in Syria Now, it's the scene of Turkish hostilities & abuses. Terrorist explosions & assassinations!

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  18. Nov 7

    Top US diplomat William Roebuck has criticized Trump administration for not trying harder to prevent Turkey’s military offensive last month, said: Turkish-backed militia fighters committed "war crimes and ethnic cleansing.”

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  19. Nov 4

    . reporter captures the moment the Turkish war-planes targeted "Free Burma Rangers" humanitarian volunteers and journalists reporting on the ground. A Burmese aid worker was killed Other member injured by Turkish air strikes

    When you should choose between your humanity and your work ! It was a brutal and indiscriminate bombing on us journalists and , the Turkish…
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  20. Oct 31

    🔹Americans got no problem with another Turkish Genocide against 🔹Russians would be delighted to exploit more Turkish gains 🔹Syrian regime weaker to come up with a word 🔹Iranians already preparing pouncing on an imminent U.S. retreat from Oil springs "Creative Chaos"

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  21. Oct 30

    Chaos in NE The village of "Gheibesh", west Tal-Tamr, 2km: SDF forces Russian military Syrian regime forces U.S. military convoy just arrived in The village is now being under Turkish/affiliated armed militias' attack..

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  22. Oct 30

    This is happening at the time the US Congress recognizing Armenian Genocide, issuing sanctions on Turkish regime Still nothing seems would stop this regime's ongoing atrocities & human violations Most Kurds houses/properties in Ras al-Ain & Tal-Abyad are now seized

    1- Turkey backed Syrian armed factions have seized my house because am Kurdish, since Turkey sees any Kurd like me as a threat to its national security, while the presence of someone terrorist and dangerous like…
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  23. Oct 29

    My heart goes tonight for the Great Armenian People ❤️

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  24. Oct 29

    Costs of terrorist operations as a percentage of GDP in the 10 most-affected countries by terrorism First piece of a series of articles illustrate the economic situation of terrorist groups, ISIS sources of finance via By Dr. Ahmed Yousef

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    Oct 27

    The U.S. President Donald Trump thanks the Syrian-Kurdish Forces, the for their contributions in the security operation of ISIS Chief, Al-Baghdadi

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    Oct 27

    Americans called Russians on “de-confliction” line to warn of pending U.S. military assault on Baghdadi compound in NW Syria. No de-confliction with Turkey who “did not help in any way,” U.S. defense official says

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    Oct 27

    ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to have been killed in NW Syria near Turkish border by a JSOC raid, US official confirms. SDF contributed information to the effort I’m told - Turkey did not. “That shows you how little they do on countering ISIS,” the official said

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    Oct 27

    A US official tells CNN that Turkey played no role in assisting the operation though the operation was deconflicted with the Turkish military due to its proximity to Turkey’s border. The official also said the Kurdish-led SDF did provide some intelligence support to the operation

    Turkey’s Defense Ministry says it exchanged information and coordinated with the US military prior to the US counter-terrorism operation in NW Syria, a raid that US officials tell CNN targeted the leader of ISIS, al Baghdadi
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  29. Oct 27

    🔹, 2 wives were trying to smuggle to 🔹Turkey as a direction for Chief? 🔹U.S. didn't notify Turkey about major security Op, why? 🔹Up until now, Turkish regime keeping silent? Unusually 🔹Baghdadi was in Turkey-influenced area 🔹SDF contributed intl info

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  30. Oct 26

    "Turkish President Erdogan's Past Close Relations With Afghan Warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar – In Light Of Hekmatyar's Afghan Presidential Candidacy" Hekmatyar worked with the Talibans & Usama bin Laden, designated as terrorist by the U.S. Via

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  31. Oct 26

    Well detailed & informative piece by regarding the latest U.S. decision of staying in N/E Syria. "The U.S. return to the Syrian equation between oil and field balances" by Dr Ahmad Yousef

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    Oct 24

    This is the other side of Turkey campaign to ethnically cleanse Kurds from their homes. They're carrying out the forced, violent deportation of Syrian refugees who, at great cost, have carved out lives for themselves in Turkey.

    Amnesty researchers met or spoke with refugees who said Turkish police had beaten or threatened them into signing documents stating they “wanted” to return to Syria.…
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  33. Oct 24

    Important piece from reveals the hidden details from Ras Al-Ain meeting, Officials, and the given promises of protection for the local military & civil councils of Ras al-Ain & Tal-Abyad, the failed "security mechanism"

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  34. Oct 20

    Ethnic cleansing/Demographic change that's been anticipated prior to Turkish aggression is being conducted now While the whole world is just watching Sources in Tal-Abyad say: Turkey already displaced Kurdish component from the entire town Kurds used to make more 40% of town

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  35. Oct 20

    Turkish bombing killed a friend's parents (father & mother) west Tal-Abyad, week ago Now He's receiving pictures from TFSA militants who occupied his parents house, taking photos inside his house and sending them to him. What's more hideous!?

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  36. Oct 20

    Our people of N Syria message: "We don't blame American troops We know it's beyond their will & ability. But, we & our children will be massacred by turks & jihadis. You're leaving us to be slaughtered!" U.S. soldier wearing badge today in , while leaving

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  37. Oct 20

    Watch this important footage from mid-June by Shows the truth about faked and untruthful report of a pro-Erdogan TV.

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    Tal Abyad between accusations and truth
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    Oct 19

    4. I keep on going over the autopsy of the Kurdish woman. Having traveled to these areas myself, I’ve sometimes nurtured the erroneous thought that my gender would offer me some protection. Who’d kill an unarmed woman? She was dragged by her hair until part of her scalp fell out.

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  39. Oct 18

    لقد وقع أردوغان لنفسه عقد انتصار جديد في ايه انتخابات تركية قادمة. أردوغان يغذي التطرف القومي والديني في آن واحد

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  40. Oct 18

    Turkish military and armed groups displayed shameful disregard for civilian life, carrying out serious violations & war crimes, including summary killings, unlawful attacks that have killed and injured civilians, during the offensive into northeast Syria

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  41. Oct 17

    I remember it well, I reported this as well

    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: …
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