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Turkey does it, and some people talk back and forth

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The rightness of the Peace Springs operation that Turkey launched three days ago is beyond dispute. No country could turn a blind eye to a terrorist organization, which has fired weapons for years at the civilians, soldiers, wives and children of the country it afflicts, being stationed right next to its border, armed with enough weapons for a state. It is obvious that such a formation is a real threat to Turkey, and Turkey is exercising its right of self-defense to protect its territorial integrity, stability and security; this cannot be disputed.

Moreover, this formation threatens not only Turkey; through the terror it has created by being forcibly settled in the region with ABD weapons and support, it has caused a great many people to seek asylum in Turkey.

If some here want to give the PYD a gift, let them at least do so without disturbing anyone else, without creating another victimized, oppressed people, forcibly torn from their homes and subjected to ethnic cleansing. Let no one presume to bestow favors on other peoples at the expense of the suffering of other peoples.

After all, the problem of deported peoples is a separate problem within Syria, but Turkey being forced to pay the bill for it alone is a separate problem too. From the sum of all of this, Turkey acquires a right to intervene in the formations in this region.

When one looks at the state of those who ignore this right of Turkey and react to the Peace Springs operation, the complicity of all of them in the blood spilled in Syria and everywhere in the world is exposed. Those who condemn and accuse, doing so without looking at themselves, are in any case showing why the order of our world is in such a distorted state. Can you imagine? Israel accuses Turkey of "occupying Kurdish regions". It is not enough that it is the model of the most disgusting, most shameless, most brazen occupation; in their heads they have already occupied Syrian land first as a "Kurdish country". They also express concerns about the possibility of Turkey carrying out ethnic cleansing in the region. What is this? Israel loves the Kurds more than Turkey does, feels greater compassion for them. Damn your compassion. There is no honorable Kurdish child who would rely on your compassion.

The Prime Minister of France, Makron, like members of the ABD Congress, ignoring what Turkey has gone through for years because of the turmoil in Syria, said "Turkey forgets that the international community's priority in Syria is to fight IŞİD and terrorism" and added: "Turkey is about to create a humanitarian problem that could affect millions of people. This would allow IŞİD to establish a caliphate again."

Truly, these words are like the words of the Frenchman who states his theft while threatening (displaying bravado). While trying to dissuade Turkey from its path, he is in fact confessing the capacity to loosen IŞİD's rope again and make it a trouble on Turkey's head. Mr. Macron, under what conditions did the 3.6 million Syrians in Turkey, the 3 million in Lebanon and Jordan, and the 1.2 million in Germany have to migrate? Is it not because of the policies you have insisted on in Syria until now? Turkey is already affected by this problem as much as it can be, and now, for a more lasting solution to this problem, it is flowing Peace Springs. Rest easy, Turkey's intervention will not produce problems as yours does; it solves problems, it does not kill but gives life.

THE ARAB LEAGUE HAS FINALLY REMEMBERED IT IS ARAB, BUT...

In the ranking of more tragicomic reactions, we must admit, the statements of Egypt and the Arab League lead the way. In the name of Sisi, who massacred his own people with a coup in his own country, who has thrown all his free-thinking citizens into dungeons, and who has handed his country over to Israel and outside powers, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry has said: "We condemn in the strongest terms Turkey's aggression in Syria. This is an insolent and unacceptable attack on the national sovereignty of a brotherly Arab state." Although President Erdoğan returned these words with "what difference does it make whether you condemn or not", the stranger thing is that the role Egypt is currently playing inside Libya is ignored. While an atmosphere of national consensus had formed and the Libyan people were advancing toward deciding their own future, Sisi, who had the former General Haftar, whom they supported, carry out a coup and dragged Libya into utter chaos by occupying a significant part of it, condemns Turkey's most justified and most legitimate intervention in Syria. As Erdoğan said, "what does it matter if you condemn or not", is there any standing left for you in the parsing?

Stranger even than this is that this reaction is being voiced in the name of the Arab world or League. What is it? Turkey is attacking the sovereignty of a brotherly Arab country?

Like a joke. Let us laugh bitterly with a few simple questions, if you like.

Who is this sovereign Arab state? Syria? Hey, the seven powers are there, is any sovereignty left?

Are you concerned with Syria's Arabness? Hey, do you have any respect for Arabs and Arabness? More than half of Syria's brotherly Arab people have for eight years either been killed or deported here and there; what did you do for them?

Although you stayed blind and deaf to them, how do you now have the face to remember that Turkey, which stood by them, is not Arab?

Which Arab country is doing what for the Arabs whose lives, property, homes and honor are trampled in Syria, Libya, Yemen and Egypt?

Moreover, Turkey's intervention is not an attack on our Arab brothers, but a defense of theirs that prevents them from being subjected to further ethnic cleansing, and it is carrying out this operation together with their very Syrian brothers.

Let the Arab League learn from Turkey how to stand by its Arab brothers.