The Operation Olive Branch in northern Syria started five days
ago. Five days ago the Afrin region became a possible hotbed of a
full-scale conflict between the Turkish troops aided by the armed
fighters of the Free Syrian Army and the US-backed Kurdish units which
had been dominating the area. The operation started with shellings and
airstrikes of the Turkish artillery and AF and later grew into a
full-blown invasion.
According to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
one of the incentives for Ankara to invade Syria was a possible threat
of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), characterized as a
“terror army”, which could initiate an offensive on the territory of
Turkey. Quite peculiar is that this army is armed with equipment
supplied by Washington, and trained by American military instructors who
still may be in the ranks of the SDF.
