Turkey Unleashes Jihadist Terror on Syria
by Uzay Bulut • December 3, 2024 at 5:00 am
The government of Turkey has supported jihadists in Syria since the beginning of the civil war in 2011. Turkey has allowed Islamists to use the Turkish territory to cross the border to Syria to join terrorist organizations there.
Turkey has been targeting the US allies against ISIS through military incursions such as the 2018 "Operation Olive Branch" and 2019 "Operation Peace Spring."
In June 2020, HTS began replacing the Syrian pound with the Turkish lira, indexing the prices of goods to the lira. The Turkish government, through its massive economic support to the group, thereby became a lifeline for the jihadist HTS.
The capture of Aleppo by Turkey-backed, Al-Qaeda-affiliated forces is terrifying news for Kurds, Yazidis, Christians and everyone else whom jihadists perceive as their prey. If one is celebrating the advance of these Islamists invading parts of Syria, one is celebrating the advance of bloodthirsty jihadists who want to establish an Islamic caliphate and would happily slaughter anyone who stood in their way.
Turkey is unleashing another gruesome jihad in Syria.
On November 27, jihadist terror groups -- led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Organization for the Liberation of the Levant; HTS) -- launched a coordinated attack on Aleppo Governorate in northwestern Syria, cut off the main highway from Damascus to Aleppo, captured and killed dozens of Syrian Army soldiers, promised mass executions and beheadings "in front of TV cameras," and seized control of a military base and several villages.
Meanwhile, the jihadists posted videos on social media showing them capturing several training aircraft in the Kuweires Air Base near Aleppo.
The city of Aleppo is now effectively under the control of jihadist groups. Tens of thousands of Christians, Kurds and other minorities are in danger of extermination. Videos of jihadists abducting Kurdish women have also surfaced on social media.
The X account "Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch" reported:
