Operation Peace Spring- Day 2

Listened to Scott @ nomadiceveryman.He made an interesting point. It is relevant. The world is not viewing the Turkish operation as a move on Syria. Quite frankly- “the world”- that is the 5 eyes nations and their lackies in Germany, France and Israel, could care less about Syria. The “world” views Turkey’s move as an attack on Rojova.  One province in their planned new nation state- Kurdistan or Greater Kurdistan.  The one they’ve been giving birth to for years and years now. Which is why the coverage is shrill (loud and noisy)Abdullah observed the frenzied coverage as well

Anyway, lots of crocodile tears emanating from the West already within a few moments of Erdogan's tweet about start of operation. The coverage is bizzare and quite frenzied. So much destruction in Yemen and they are hardly moved.So as expected condemnation bells ringing aloud already.                        

I’m of the mind that it is this imperialistic view that feeds the main stream and alternative 5 eyes media/ and their troll armies,  in their outrage against Turkey. Since they’ve been obfuscating the imperial agenda for years now. In March 2011- when the Syrian destabilization had kicked off in earnest the " Greater Middle East initiative" was mentioned in one of my reports

"The interest of the neo-conservatives in Ghadry also picked up when the US government announced its “Greater Middle East” initiative to promote “democracy and good governance”

Every alarm bell and whistle is going off in my head !!! How about you?"

The Greater Middle East initiative. To promote democracy and good governance. How sweet those words sound. How ugly they really are. The remake has never been hidden. Turkey simply doesn’t want to be ‘remade’News roundup:Lavrov's statements bold and or bold and enlarged

1- Turkey and Russia maintain full contact During Operation

ASHGABAT, October 10. /TASS/. Moscow and Ankara maintain regular contact, including between the military, on Turkey’s operation in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters on Thursday."As you know, President [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan called President [Vladimir] Putin, and before that Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu had called me. We have a deconfliction channel, a channel of regular communications, and our military officials maintain regular contact with each other. We want this situation to calm down as soon as possible, first of all based on the principle of respect for Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity," Lavrov stressed.Russia is going to promote a dialogue between Damascus and Ankara and also Kurdish organizations, according to Lavrov."We will be pressing for the beginning of a dialogue between Turkey and Syria. There are reasons to believe that this will meet the interests of both countries. Also, we will be promoting contacts between Damascus and Kurdish organizations that renounce extremism and terrorist methods of activity," Lavrov said."We’ve heard Syrian officials and Kurdish organizations’ representatives say they are interested in Russia using its good relations with all parties to this process for assistance in establishing such a dialogue. We’ll see how to go about this business," Lavrov said.Lavrov also said that Turkey’s rightful concerns about the situation along the border with Syria could have been settled on the basis of the existing agreements."We have been constantly highlighting from the very start of the crisis in Syria that we understand the rightful concerns of the Republic of Turkey as to the safety of its borders," Lavrov said. "At the same time, we were emphasizing in every way the need to settle these concerns within the framework of the agreements existing between Damascus and Ankara, the so-called Adana agreement of 1998," he went on to say.

I'll relink, yet again, the information already posted her on the Adana Agreement- It seems Lavrov, Putin, Erdogan, Rouhani and myself are the ones giving coverage to this agreement. Adana is featured again near the bottom of this report.

"Unfortunately, an efficient implementation of that agreement, that envisaged joint efforts to thwart acts of terror on the border between Turkey and Syria, was complicated by the activity of the Americans and the coalition on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River," Lavrov stressed.

 Lavrov, stating flat out that the Americans thwarted Turkey and Syria’s ability to resolve the issue, which they could have resolved, under the Adana Accord.

                                "We have been for years warning about an extreme danger of the experiment that the Americans were conducting there, trying to set the Kurds and Arab tribes against each other in every possible way. We were warning against playing the Kurdish card, as this can come to no good, of which we were also warned by our colleagues from other countries in the region having large Kurdish communities," the Russian diplomat added.

2-Despite Withdrawal Claims, US Troops Retain ‘Colonial’ Hold on Syrian Kurdish LandsFor all the disinforming green lighters out there...

“It looks like all the US has done is … pull back 150 guys who [were] sprinkled in that northern safe zone,” Ford told hosts John Kiriakou and Brian Becker. “But they are still there with the rest of the 1,000 occupying that quarter of Syria, which is effectively controlled by the US.”

2,000 Americans occupy that quarter- In anywhere from 16 to 25 bases3- Hungry Vetoed the EU Statement

At the weekly press conference of Gergely Gulyás, the Chief of Staff of the Hungarian Government told journalists that the EU should acknowledge and value Turkey's contributions to the stability of Europe, and that if Turkey takes steps to enable the return of refugees in Turkey to Syria, they deserve support.

The Right of return is applicable to all, not just Judaic followers  making Aliyah to Israel. Enabling Israeli militancy and expansionism4- Operation ‘Peace Spring’: How Far Did Turkish Forces Progress In East Of Euphrates?

It is the second day of the operation ‘Peace Spring’, a ground offensive launched by Turkey to control several posts held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the surrounding of the two cities of Tell Abiad and Ras al-Ayn/Sari Kani, considered the offensive’s two major axes.The operation kicked off in the late Wednesday evening hours, but Turkey had already set fire to the Syrian border strip, extending from the Tell Abiad city to that of al-Malikiyah/Dayrik, far into the norther-east, with airstrikes conducted by F-16 warplanes, in addition to the missiles and mortars it fired from the rocket launchers and heavy artillery stationed along its side of the border.Today, at the dawn of October 10, the Turkish Ministry of Defense stated that unites of the Commandos/Special Forces continue to advance in the area east of the Euphrates river, being part of the operation ‘Peace Spring’.Attached to the statement that the Ministry published were videos of the Turkish forces’ progress within the area.

Barış Pınarı Harekâtı gece boyunca havadan ve karadan başarıyla sürdürüldü. Belirlenen hedefler ele geçirildi. Harekât planlandığı şekilde başarıyla devam ediyor.#MSB #TSK #BarışPınarıHarekatı     — T.C. Millî Savunma Bakanlığı (@tcsavunma) October 10, 2019

The two axes involved

As shown by the control map, the progress of the Turkish forces focused on two axes: the first is in the vicinity of  Tell Abiad; the second is in the surrounding of the Ras al-Ayn city, as far as its eastern parts.The Turkish forces, a media source from the city of Tell Abiad said, have made a three-kilometer-progress within the Syrian territories, on the eastern and western fronts of Tell Abiad.The Turkish forces have also blocked the road between the Suluk town and Tell Abiad and are now attempting to arrive at the Ayn al-Arab/Kobanî-Tell Abiad and Tell Abiad-Raqqa roads, the source added.The area that the Turkish forces are advancing to is open, the source added, noting that once the roads mentioned above are taken over, Turkey will cordon Tell Abiad, except for its southern front.On the second axis, namely Ras al-Ayn, the Turkish forces have also achieved progress of a few kilometers within its surrounding, facilitating for the incursion with the airstrikes and the artillery shelling they embarked on in the past hours.On the outskirts of Ras al-Ayen, the Turkish forces have progressed on the western front of the city, in the surrounding of Tel Arqam town, and have also cut the road connecting it with Tell Abiad, which lies within the range of its weaponry,  journalist Abdulaziz Khalifeh from Ras al-Ayen, told Enab Baladi.Several posts on the northern border strip of Syria are witnessing clashes.

The Turkish forces, however, are focusing the attacks on the SDF posts, fortifications and tunnels at the border, in a proactive move before storming the area, Khalifeh added.The Turkish forces have also started another front in the surrounding of Ras al-Ayen a little bit ago, on the city’s eastern side, near the Alouk town, the journalist pointed out, adding that the land attack in the city’s suburbs is thus being launched from two axes.

We combated the offensive, SDF says

On the other side of the border strip, the SDF has declared combating the Turkish land-attack aimed at the city of Ras al-Ayen, al-Hasakah countryside.“The forces have repelled the ground offensive launched by the Turkish forces and their loyalist factions, costing them massive losses and forcing them to withdraw,” SDF said in a statement yesterday.“Confrontations using heavy weapons continue, given the focused Turkish shelling on the city center that is dense in population.”The SDF-affiliated Coordination and Military Operations Office announced rendering malfunction a Turkish armored vehicle while combating an attack of the Turkish forces in the village of Ain Diwar, to the west of al-Malikiyah, on the Syrian borders.The SDF has reported deaths and injuries among civilians due to the Turkish shelling of the civilian houses in the city, which so far have not been confirmed by medical centers.The Center has also added that one of the Turkish airstrikes has targeted a prison, where fighters of the Islamic State (IS) are held captive.

Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri, Barış Pınarı Harekâtı kapsamında hava kuvvetleri unsurları ve ateş destek vasıtaları ile şu ana kadar terör örgütüne ait toplam 181 hedefi ateş altına aldı.    #MSB #TSK #BarışPınarıHarekatı     pic.twitter.com/ttPa3GSg8j— T.C. Millî Savunma Bakanlığı (@tcsavunma) October 9, 2019

Adana, for the umpteenth time!

Previously discussed has been this idea of the Adana Agreement being in play, present time, in Syria. I've read claims that allege Turkey is sending slews of fighters to block SAA in the Hama/Idlib area. That seems not likely for a number of reasons already mentioned.  If we also consider the possibility that Turkey is 'poised to expand' eastward, which would be Adana in action, then it's not likely Turkey is behind any mass movement of fighters towards the region that SAA is retaking.  

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