How America used then left Rojava to the disposal of Erdoğan’s increasingly authoritarian domain.

How America used then left the peaceful Syrian community of Rojava to the disposal of Erdoğan’s increasingly authoritarian domain.

Last week Turkey began Operation Olive Branch to forcibly seize the autonomous Kurdish canton of Afrin, a region of the peaceful Democratic Federation of Northern Syria more commonly known as Rojava.

23 civilians were killed over the weekend of the 20th to the 22nd of January, including six young children. The Turkish Foreign Minister, however, has rebuked this civilian death toll which has been corroborated by every single independent watchdog who oversee the civil war, instead discrediting it as ‘nonsense propaganda and baseless lies’ of the YPG.