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The Turkish Armed Forces and its ally the Syrian National Army have occupied [7] [8] areas of northern Syria since August 2016, during the Syrian civil war.Though these areas nominally acknowledge a government affiliated with the Syrian opposition, in practice they constitute a separate proto-state [9] under the dual authority of decentralized native local councils and Turkish military ...
On 9 December 2019, various local accounts indicated that Turkey was moving Syrian refugees into its zone of operations in Northern Syria for the first time. [487] Erdogan said that Turkey was working to settle one million people in the cities of Tal Abyad and Ras Al-Ain in northern Syria. [488] This has led to fears of population change. [489]
The 2024 Hama offensive was a military operation launched by forces of the Syrian Salvation Government (SSG) and Turkish-backed [18] rebel groups of the Syrian Interim Government (SIG) during the 2024 Syrian opposition offensive, a phase of the Syrian civil war.
The Northern Syrian Provinces, or Cilicia and Upper Mesopotamia, are areas of Ottoman Syria that were annexed to Turkiye. In 1921, the Ankara Agreement was finalised between France and the Turkish national government in exchange for Turkey's recognition of the French mandate over Syria .
Turkey's military offensive in neighboring Syria is raising tensions among Germany's large Turkish, Kurdish and Syrian Arab communities, who are bitterly divided over the operation and have made ...
As an occupying power in northern Syria, Turkey has had the responsibility to restore public order and safety, protect residents and hold those responsible for abuses accountable, the report said.
In December 2024, the factions supported by Turkey announced they would discontinue the ceasefire with groups supported by the US, such as Syrian Democratic Forces. One news article noted: "The SNA, an umbrella of several armed factions, informed the SDF on Monday that it would be returning to 'a state of combat against us,' one of the sources ...
The battlefield is crowded in northern Syria, with the U.S., Russia, Iran and Turkey all involved in the renewed fighting, underscoring the messy global politics at play.