The Kurdish Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (AANES) is under assault from Turkish-backed extremists – but no one's interested.
israel's minor incursion into a buffer zone on the Golan, where no people live, is being portrayed as a major story; while Ankara attacking Tal Rifaat, Manbij and Kobani and killing civilians and displacing tens of thousands of people, primarily Kurds, is not even covered. pic.twitter.com/qAbCo9pdHJ
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Manbij was the site of a long tough battle against ISIS by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces. Yet, now it has been handed over to Ankara-backed extremists who have a long track record of massacring people, kidnapping and extrajudicial murders, especially targeting women and minorities.
Ankara is attacking areas around Kobani, another site of a major battle against ISIS. Basically Ankara is seeking to move thuggish extremist groups that are similar to ISIS into areas ISIS used to control, in order to ethnically cleanse them. Ankara already did this in Afrin and then forced the IDFs from Afrin to flee again.
However, all these invasions and attacks and displacement don't even seem to get one headline.
Added: headline now in the Telegraph – Turkish-backed fighters attack Kurds in Syria.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vowed on Tuesday never to allow Syria to be divided again, which could be seen as a threat towards the Kurdish-led autonomous Rojava region in the north east of the country.
Gideon Sa’ar, the Israeli foreign minister, on Tuesday said that attacks on Kurds “must stop”.
“There must be a commitment and actions by the international community to protect the Kurds, who fought bravely against ISIS,” he added.
Mick Hartley 
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