Our government has done absolutely jack shit to counteract any of this. First PKK releases ISIS prisoners, then they blame us for it.
Absolutely brain dead, whole Syria and PKK strategy has been ridiculous for several years.
You can do nothing about it
No one, even Turkey, knows the identity of the tens of thousands of ISIS prisoners that the SDF has kept in prison for years. Not only do we not know their identity but also the identity of their children who have reprotedly inherited tneir ideology. The SDF has been keeping their identity in complete secrecy and are releasing them in small numbers and sporadically to not get caught. After they enter the pro-govt territory, Assad remnants arm and protect them
We can criticise the govt as much as we want; however, compared to the vision of other political parties in Turkey regarding Syria, Turkey getting involved in Syria and toppling Assad has been one of the best things the AKP has done regarding the Syrian file.
Ask yourself why on earth is the SDF releasing ISIS fighters now and not during Assad regime, and why is Israel crying day and night when they remained silent during the Assad regime. It is simply because, sooner or later, the SDF will internally break down. I dont share it in this platform, but the number of anti-SDF protests throughout the SDF-controlled area has been on the rise, even with continuous arrests, and anyone who knows something about Syrian demographics also knows that the SDF existence depended on the presence of Assad regime; now that Assad is gone, why on earth should the 80% Sunni Arab population in SDF-held areas accept a Kurdistan proposed by the SDF and not a sunni Arab govt?
The same is with Israel; they are probably cursing Erdogan ever since the toppling of Assad. Israel wanted Syria divided and in continous internal war to keep Syria weak, create a second front against Turkey (aside from Greece), and above all create a demographic change in Syrian population by kicking out the 94% sunni Arabs of Syria and replacing them with Iraqi and Iranian Shias that Israel can use as a legitimate excuse to possibly attack if not to invade and occupy Syria in the future. Israel's 20-year plan has been thrown in the garbage in less than a month and I assure you that Israel is fuming day and night because of it
The same is with Al-hijri militias; they dont have the resources to even sustain tneir activities anymore. No resources to exploit and barely enough food to get by in Suwaydah. Hell, even Israel reportedly stopped paying salaries to Al-hijri soldiers due to finacial constraints (according to Israeli media). Protests against Al-hijri have been on the rise amd Al-hijri is carrying out a brutal assassination campaign against any critic in Suwaydah. Even his demand of independece of 300k druze citizens is impossible with ~1.4 million sunni Arabs living in the surrounding provinces.
That is why the SDF and Israel are pulling out all the tricks they can do, since they know that they are running on borrowed time. Even the Americans are realising that and are starting to jump the SDF's ship; it reached a point where Natenyahu said that Tom Barrack is brainwashed by Turkey (lol).
The only question here is whether Turkey has a plan to deliver the final blow and break the status quo or not and only time will tell the answer to this question
