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Cake day: December 14th, 2023

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  • Two different untrue rumors regarding Turkey and Syria spark chaos.

    Earlier this week a rumor was spread in Turkey that a Syrian refugee had assaulted a young Turkish girl, this led to pogroms against Syrian businesses and people, and dozens of arrests by the Turkish government.

    Another rumor was that Ankara and Damascus had a meeting in Latakia province to discuss normalization of relations. Turns out this rumor was also untrue.

    That didn’t stop the HTS Turkish-backed “moderate rebels” from turning on their masters accusing them of “selling them out to Bashar.” Dozens of Turkish soldiers and HTS terrorists were killed and injured in gunfire exchanges, military bases were torched, and internet is reportedly down across much of the northern occupied Syria. Turkish flags were burned, border crossings closed, and Turkish businesses in the territory vandalized.

    It’s noteworthy that in all of the so-called “liberated territories” of Northern Syria, a Turkish appointed governor runs the affairs and Turkish soldiers have some presence.

    Everyone knows that Damascus condition of Turkish-Syria normalization talks is for Ankara to agree to leave all of Syria. So the proxy terrorists are feeling the heat of their impending abandonment.

    Some Syrian commentators suspect that both rumors are connected and Erdogan is trying to spread greater ethnic strife in order to better his position in future negotiations with Syria.

    We’ll see what happens.