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Turkey starts attacking syrian kurds SDF after US forces left

28 points| hutzlibu | 6 years ago |aljazeera.com | reply

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[+] k1e|6 years ago|reply
Its funny how some political non-tech news are getting removed extremely fast without staying flagged and some political non-tech news are staying unflagged for 5 hours (like this one) despite being a clone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21202946.

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[+] hutzlibu|6 years ago|reply
So rather screw the kurds and loose them to the russians and Assad, than loosing turkey to the russians?

I bet(and hope), that does not pay off in the longterm.

And turkey btw. will always be on turkeys side first.

[+] devoply|6 years ago|reply

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[+] throwaway_law|6 years ago|reply
>Nasty tribalism in that part of the world is holding everyone there back.

Hasn't that same "tribalism" always existed? Isn't this the same people of the World who both carried and advanced math and engineering while the West fell into the fuedalism?

All these so-called tribes seemed alright under single rule of the Ottoman Empire, and wasn't that broken up by the West who then began carving out new countries often splitting these tribes?

[+] slowhand09|6 years ago|reply
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[+] hutzlibu|6 years ago|reply
So you think turkey bombards areas where they still suspect US troops to be around?

I understood the news so, that the US forces left. And if there are some remaining, than at know headquarters. But before they were patrolling the area together with SDF. They definitely withdraw from that.

CNN source, telling similar, but yes, aparrently also do not say anything about whether all US troops left the area.

https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/syria-turkey-mi...

[+] oarsinsync|6 years ago|reply
I think that's on the part of the submitter to HN, rather than the publisher.

The article itself carries headline: Turkey-Syria border: All the latest updates

And contains text: The move came after the United States announced it was withdrawing its troops from the region

[+] kgwxd|6 years ago|reply
If the karma system doesn't punish users that upvote submissions that eventually get flagged, it really should. Stuff like this is making the front page every few minutes. There's no way this belongs here.