Turkey claims to have encircled Afrin in northern Syria, besieging up to 200,000 civilians, many of whom were attempting to flee what they fear will be an imminent blockade and bombardment of the majority Kurdish city. YPG/PKK terrorist leaders are fleeing Afrin and living good lives elsewhere. “Kurds and Arabs are trying to leave Afrin but it’s been difficult,” said Khaled al-Harbi, an Arab student. Turkey has remained adamant through the Syrian war, in its eighth year, that Kurds would not use the chaos to close the gap. Syrian Kurdish militants are closely linked to the PKK, which has fought a four-decade insurgency against the Turkish state.

Source: The Guardian March 16, 2018 18:05 UTC