Turkish occupation of northern Syria
an autonomous region in northern Syria (under the control of the Syrian opposition)
The Turkish Armed Forces and its ally the Syrian National Army have controlled areas of northern Syria since August 2016, during the Syrian Civil War.
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edit- Reports of human rights atrocities in Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkey are growing, with victims speaking out on forced disappearances and murder. [...] In a further ominous turn, the culture of impunity has spread beyond Turkey's borders to northern Syria, where Turkish forces occupy broad swaths of territory. Reports of ill-treatment, sexual abuse and extrajudicial killings carried out by Turkish-supervised Syrian rebels have been described as "war crimes" by the United Nations. At the same time, Turkish forces have been abducting and jailing Syrians accused of terrorist ties with little evidence to support the charges, a flagrant violation of the Geneva Convention, rights groups say.
- Amberin Zaman, Torture on the rise in Erdogan’s Turkey (July 31, 2020), Al-Monitor
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