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Türkçe Araştırmaları Direktörü @OmranDirasat, Non-Resident Senior Fellow @AtlanticCouncil, My tweets are my personal opinion.

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I visited the Kurdish Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in Aleppo. My impressions: 📌 The Assad regime mistreated the Syrian Kurds and put them in a ghetto-like area. 📌 The YPG/SDF did nothing to improve services, daily life for Kurds, and forced them to live in such miserable conditions. ➡️ Kurds deserve better than this

I visited the Kurdish Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in Aleppo. My impressions: 📌 The Assad regime mistreated the Syrian Kurds and put them in a ghetto-like area. 📌 The YPG/SDF did nothing to improve services, daily life for Kurds, and forced them to live in such miserable conditions. ➡️ Kurds deserve better than this

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The Syrian army reached the gate of Raqqa city. If they move in and take the city, the SDF will lose most of its leverage. The smart think to do would be to announce a complete withdrawal from all Arab-majority areas of Syria and to negotiate local security and local governance rights for Kurdish-majority areas. But I somehow doubt the YPG-dominated SDF can be that realistic and pragmatic.

The Syrian army reached the gate of Raqqa city. If they move in and take the city, the SDF will lose most of its leverage. The smart think to do would be to announce a complete withdrawal from all Arab-majority areas of Syria and to negotiate local security and local governance rights for Kurdish-majority areas. But I somehow doubt the YPG-dominated SDF can be that realistic and pragmatic.

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US forces have returned back to Ayn al Arab which was handed over to Russia in 2019. Russia recently withdrew from that area. After five years of Russian protection, now CENTCOM again tries to protect the YPG. The insistence of CENTCOM and Brett McGurk to safeguard the YPG not only harms US interests in the region, but also undermines the incoming Trump administration's bargaining position.

US forces have returned back to Ayn al Arab which was handed over to Russia in 2019. Russia recently withdrew from that area. After five years of Russian protection, now CENTCOM again tries to protect the YPG. The insistence of CENTCOM and Brett McGurk to safeguard the YPG not only harms US interests in the region, but also undermines the incoming Trump administration's bargaining position.

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The last time we had seen such pictures were during the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. Now, civilians take down the flag of the YPG-dominated SDF.

The last time we had seen such pictures were during the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. Now, civilians take down the flag of the YPG-dominated SDF.

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A first step: The Syrian Internal Security Forces have entered Hasakah city and the countryside of Ayn al Arab (Kobane). So far, the Syrian security forces still haven't entered any Kurdish area. The deal remains fragile and prone to many potential tensions. But there is also hope that all may be resolved peacefully without major complications.

A first step: The Syrian Internal Security Forces have entered Hasakah city and the countryside of Ayn al Arab (Kobane). So far, the Syrian security forces still haven't entered any Kurdish area. The deal remains fragile and prone to many potential tensions. But there is also hope that all may be resolved peacefully without major complications.

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