If this was indeed negligence on his part, retiring the general would be the way forward indeed. Rest is up to the courts to find if he was related to the act directly.
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A source familiar with the expanded meeting of the ruling Arab Socialist Baath Party in Syria , which was held on May 4, revealed that the Syrian President who chaired the meeting announced the government’s intention to reach political solutions with the Autonomous Administration within a few months.
He stressed that the Syrian President said in his closed speech to the attendees that the beginning of reaching solutions with the Autonomous Administration “will not take years but rather a few months,” while Al-Assad did not address the situation in northeastern Syria in his televised opening speech, which lasted about an hour and a quarter, while the focus was About developing the party internally and the necessity of its existence to stand “in the face of the challenges facing the country,” in addition to the concept of the party’s relationship with power.
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NSC Statement:
It was emphasized that the PKK/KCK-PYD/YPG, which turned the lands it usurped in Iraq and Syria into a hotbed of terrorism, will be eliminated together with all its elements in the region.
It was emphasized that no fait accompli would be allowed against our national security and the territorial integrity of our neighbors
So far, the American and Russian pledges to the Turks regarding the SDF project and preventing its development into what threatens Turkish national security are still considered sufficient for the current stage, and there is no preparation for Turkish military action in northeastern Syria.
The threatening statements have an internal goal to pressure the Kurdish party and its incubator and improve negotiations on the new constitution.
Honestly, these UAV attacks are meaningless tbhAs a result of the operations carried out by MİT in Syria, 9 PKK / YPG terrorists, including the Tel Hamis commander, were neutralized.
4 PKK/YPG terrorists, one of whom was determined to be the Tel Hamis so-called field commander, who were determined to be preparing to attack the Turkish Armed Forces border troops on the Syrian border, in the Tel Hamis region in the northeast of Syria, close to the Sinjar (Iraq) region, were neutralized yesterday evening.
Two vehicles were hit at the same time while the two vehicles in which the terrorists, monitored from satellite, were slowing down in the area determined by the terrorist organization as a security point, an air operation was carried out by UCAVs in line with the coordinates received in advance.
Two vehicles were hit with full accuracy at the same time. In the successful operation, 4 armed terrorists in the vehicle were killed, and one of them was determined to be the so-called field commander of the Tel Hamis region.
Pinpoint shots in Qamishli at the same time, checkpoints, shelters and armed training camps belonging to the terrorist organization were also hit in 8 separate operations carried out simultaneously with UCAVs in Qamishly district, just next to Turkiye's Nusaybin district, and in the Amude countryside. It was learned that 5 terrorists were neutralized in this operation.
This comes after a long pause in operations due to foreign forces pressure. If these boundaries are crossed we are talking about some serious escalation going on.
Meaningless? Due to these UCAV attacks PKK is militarily on its knees. The only thing preventing PKK from a total collapse is the situation on other fronts. The people that PKK lose to these UCAVs attacks can not be filled the way you imagine. These are not ordinary terrorists which are targeted. They may be able to fill the numbers, but not the expertise and quality. If it was not for these strikes we would have talked a totally different picture today, like the one in 2012 for example where we were losing more than 5 soldiers every day within the borders of Turkiye. Such people can not be replaced easily.Honestly, these UAV attacks are meaningless tbh
The only thing they do is weaken the organisation temporarily until they elect a new one to take their positions. Turkey has been undergoing a sucdessful hunting operation against the PKK from 2022 but all what it had done is weaken the PKK temporarily and nothing more. They just grow another tail and come back again
To defeat the PKK you need to either
1- Cut their primary source of income which comes from USA, Iran, Assad, and Russia
2- Just go in there, take the areas that they unrightfully claim to own by force and throw them towards Assad and let them spread their filth there
3- Cut their source of training and tech expertise which comes from USA and Iran
The elections, IMO, are happening nonetheless regardless of Turkey's UAV attacks since the PKK knows that this the only was to consolidate their power after Turkey's intensified Iraq operation. If these elections were to happen, PKK in Syria would strangthen and Turkey's ambition to secure the Syrian border would be going back to square one
Till this day, Iam waiting for Erdogan's Syria operation that he promised since 3 years ago. The more he waits, the more energy, manpower, and casualities he will have to commit to restore it later on and that is if he will be able to restore it, when he is this late, in the first place
Iam not trying to discredit the TSK by any chance but I just feel that the effect of assassinations within the PKK isnt that effective as beforeMeaningless? Due to these UCAV attacks PKK is militarily on its knees. The only thing preventing PKK from a total collapse is the situation on other fronts. The people that PKK lose to these UCAVs attacks can not be filled the way you imagine. These are not ordinary terrorists which are targeted. They may be able to fill the numbers, but not the expertise and quality. If it was not for these strikes we would have talked a totally different picture today, like the one in 2012 for example where we were losing more than 5 soldiers every day within the borders of Turkiye. Such people can not be replaced easily.
Which operation exactly you are waiting for? The one in Manbij, the one in Tal Rifat, the one on Ayn Al-Arab, or Ayn Issa? These are totally different things requiring different efforts so the situations at these places can be sorted out. A lot of you guys make the mistake to look at Syria and the PYD/YPG problem as one whole while the reality is totally different.
What MIT is doing is a part of a systematic approach towards the YPG (note: not the HRE!) in Syria so the threat can be contained until a suitable environment for this operation is established. For this operation to happen there are many requirements which should be met both in the political, but also on the military side of things. We will never be at square one in Syria. With elections or not Turkiye will not allow "Terroristan" at its borders. The last one to try such a move was Barzani and we can see where he is now. Different from Barzani, the YPG is a terrorist organization so you can imagine how the situation will end for them.