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Documents Have Been Seized Reveal Turkey Is Most Definitely Working With ISIS In Killing Christians

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By Theodore Shoebat and Walid Shoebat

Davutoglu-NATO-ISISHundreds of documents have been seized and they reveal that Turkey most definitely has been working with ISIS in killing Christians. According to the report: shoebat.com

A senior Western official claimed that information gathered at the compound of Abu Sayyaf, the individual responsible for oil smuggling operations on behalf of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) who was killed in a US commando operation a few months ago, points to high-level contacts between Turkish officials and leading ISIL members, the Guardian newspaper in the UK has recently reported.

While they had given voice to some resentment and mild criticism of Turkey’s much-questioned approach against ISIL, until very recently, Western officials had refrained from directly criticizing Turkish decision makers. The recent revelation appears to be the first public criticism of Turkey’s approach and could complicate Ankara’s relations with its Western allies.

Turkey, which entered the fray against ISIL after two years of reluctance to take an active part in the international coalition against the militant group, had faced charges of ignoring, if not openly facilitating, militants’ border crossings to join ISIL in Syria. Ankara’s refutations of such accusations seemingly fall short of convincing its Western allies, and the Guardian report will likely fuel underlying questions about ISIL’s links with Turkey.

“In the wake of the raid that killed Abu Sayyaf, suspicions of an undeclared alliance have hardened,” the Guardian report said.

One senior Western official familiar with the intelligence found at the compound told the Guardian that “direct dealings between Turkish officials and ranking Isis [ISIL] members was now ‘undeniable.’”

The Guardian report continues: “‘There are hundreds of flash drives and documents that were seized there,’ the official told the Observer. ‘They are being analyzed at the moment, but the links are already so clear that they could end up having profound policy implications for the relationship between us and Ankara.’”

With Turkey now striking ISIL targets in Syria after a bomb attack suspected to have been carried out by a militant killed 32 in the southern Turkish town of Suruç near the Syrian border and the killing of a soldier on the border, Ankara may have earned loud praise and strong support among its Western allies.

But questions and charges of tacit cooperation with the militant group over the past two years will, especially after the discovery of new information at Abu Sayyaf’s compound, overshadow today’s efforts and haunt Ankara’s ties with the West in years to come.

Turkey’s plan to invade its neighboring country of Syria was uncovered last year when a secret recording leaked of the highest officials discussing a plan to launch a military aggression on Syria by using the armed terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). The launched invasion resulted on aggression against the Armenian city of Kessab in which 80 Armenians were massacred as a result.

The recording shows that Erdogan’s government was orchestrating an unprecedented military aggression against Syria since last Saturday when Turkish tanks and artillery shelled the Syrian lands to provide a cover for armed terrorist groups to enter Syria from Turkey which the recordings prove beyond doubt.

Erdoğan’s government was planning a false flag attack to be executed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) against the tomb of Suleiman Shah in Syria to justify the intervention of the Turkish army in Syria, therefore making an excuse to spark a war.

Suleiman Shah was the grandfather of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, was buried in Aleppo. His grave was relocated in 1973, but it remains a Turkish extraterritorial enclave in Syria.

The recording in Turkish is here (see the transcript below):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=12&v=FW423rCw1kc

An anonymous YouTube account presents the recording as being of intelligence chief Hakan Fidan discussing with Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu, and Deputy Chief of Staff Yasar Guler and other officials a possible military operation against Syria and, if needed, creating a trumped-up excuse to do so, in coordination between Turkish intelligence and terrorist groups operative in Syria.

Shoebat.com had reported from the ground on March 22, and prior to the attacks, that terrorist groups were training in Orpha, Ghazi Antab and Antioch for such operation:

Sister Hatune tells the story of 19 year old Muhammad A. who decided to defect after seeing his mate blow himself up in a suicide operation in Hidaya Hotel in Qamishlo on March 11, 2014 which killed 3 Christians amongst others. Muhammad, who was designated to be the third to detonate lost hope that a martyr could be with virgins after seeing that the body of his previous suicide martyr colleague did not have his genital parts due to the explosion. … He told Hatune of the training centers in Orfa, Ghazi Antab and Antakia (Antioch) set up by the Turkish government for more terrorists to be sent to Syria.

Turkey is not really fighting ISIS, regardless of anyone says. ISIS is the face of terrorism, and Turkey is the one pulling the strings, only acting as though they are fighting terrorism. ‘

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Turkey-Kurdish conflict: Every regional power has betrayed the Kurds so Turkish bombing is no surprise

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By Robert Fisk,

GettyImages-459678776You would have thought that, by now, the Kurds might have learnt their lesson

The Kurds were born to be betrayed. Almost every would-be Middle East statelet was promised freedom after the First World War, and the Kurds even sent a delegation to Versailles to ask for a nation and safe borders. report independent.co.uk

But under the Treaty of Sèvres, in 1920, they got a little nation in what had been Turkey. Then along came the Turkish nationalist Mustafa Kemal Ataturk who took back the land that the Kurdish nation might have gained. So the victors of the Great War met in Lausanne in 1922-23 and abandoned the Kurds (as well as the Armenians), who were now split between the new Turkish state, French Syria and Iran and British Iraq. That has been their tragedy ever since – and almost every regional power participated in it. The most brutal were the Turks and the Iraqi Arabs, the most cynical the British and the Americans. No wonder the Turks have gone back to bombing the Kurds.

When they rebelled against Saddam Hussein in Iraq in the early 1970s, the Americans supported them, along with the Shah of Iran. Then the US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger engineered an agreement between Iran and Iraq: the Shah would receive a territorial claim and, in return, abandon the Kurds. The Americans closed off their arms supplies. Saddam slaughtered perhaps 182,000 of them. “Foreign policy,” remarked Mr Kissinger, “should not be confused with missionary work.”

You would have thought the Kurds might have learnt their lesson. But at the start of the first Gulf war to liberate Kuwait, they were urged by the Americans – or rather, a covert CIA radio station operating from Saudi Arabia – to rise against Saddam. And they did. The Americans let them die in their thousands again, only shamed weeks later into creating a “safe” zone in northern Iraq after tens of thousands of Kurdish civilians trekked under fire in a biblical exodus to the safety of Turkey. America’s “safe” zone eventually proved illusory.

Even when the US planned to invade Saddam’s Iraq through Kurdistan in 2003, the Kurds found that the Turks planned to send 40,000 troops with them. The Turks wanted to stop the Kurds grabbing the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Kirkuk; Ankara feared that a self-governing Kurdish pseudo-state would creep across the border to Turkey.

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And when the Iraqi Kurds fought Isis last year – the Americans deciding again that the Kurds had their uses – Turkey watched impotently as Kurdistan became the vanguard of the West’s battle. Kobani was a mini Stalingrad, and its defence by Kurds of Marxist orientation made Turkey’s humiliation more painful. The pro-PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) fighters along the northern strip of Syria and Iraq were seen as heroes.

This could not be permitted. Thus when Isis struck Turkish Kurds seeking help for the reconstruction of Kobani with a devastating suicide bombing in Suruc – followed by PKK claiming responsibility for the murder of two Turkish policemen – Turkey decided to strike at the PKK under cover of an anti-Isis bombardment. The Americans were to be kept sweet by the reopening of Incirlik air base – in Turkish Kurdistan – and the world would forget that Islamist fighters have received free passage across the Turkish-Syrian border.

With its latest air campaign, the Turks are following Pakistan’s path to total corruption, when it became an arms and guerrilla conduit to Afghanistan – with American encouragement – in the 1980s. The Pakistanis variously supported the mujahedin, the Taliban and other Islamist groups.

As for the Kurds – have  they come across the words of Arthur Harris, the RAF squadron leader who helped crush the 1920 Iraqi uprising? “The Arab and Kurd now know,” he said, “what real bombing means in casualties and damage. Within 45 minutes a full-size village can be practically wiped out and a third of its inhabitants killed or injured.” The Turks clearly feel the same.

Time: Why Turkey Sees the Kurdish People as a Bigger Threat than ISIS

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By Rebecca Collard / Gazientep,

Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters take up positions inside a damaged building in al-Vilat al-Homor

Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) fighters take up positions inside a damaged building in al-Vilat al-Homor

The Kurds’ success against ISIS might encourage advocates of a Kurdish state across parts of Iraq, Syria and Turkey report Time

As Kurdish forces headed to the frontlines to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) this weekend, they came under attack, not by ISIS but by Turkish fighter jets.

“They were going to Kirkuk and Sinjar to fight ISIS,” says Zagros Hiwa, a spokesman for the Kurdish PKK forces. The PKK, The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, is a Kurdish separatist group and also one of the forces fighting ISIS on the ground in Iraq and Syria. They are now also under attack by Turkey.

Last week, the Turkish government announced it was joining the war against ISIS. Since then it has arrested more than 1,000 people in Turkey and carried out waves of air raids in neighboring Syria and Iraq. But most of those arrests and air strikes, say Kurdish leaders, have hit Kurdish and left wing groups, not ISIS.

They say Turkey is now hindering, rather than helping, the fight against ISIS. “Most of our forces that have been targeted were forces that were preparing themselves to go to fight against ISIS,” says Zagros.

Kurds are an ethnic minority that live in parts of Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran. They have been persecuted for decades — from Turkey’s suppression of Kurdish identity and banning of Kurdish language to Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons on Kurdish communities. Their leaders, from the numerous different parties and rebel groups that represent them, have long sought an independent Kurdish state encompassing that territory and have fought against their respective governments to try to achieve that.

For decades, Turkey fought the PKK in a guerrilla war to push for sovereignty in Kurdish areas of Turkey, but for the past two years the parties have had a truce and were engaged in a peace process. In recent days, Turkey has arrested hundreds of Kurdish activists and politicians and hit the PKK with more than 450 strikes, according to Kurdish leaders. The Turkish government hasn’t said how may air raids it has carried out or who were the targets.

Hoshang Waziri, a political analyst based in Erbil, says the Kurds’ recent territorial gains in Syria along Turkey’s border and their increasing political legitimacy in the eyes of the West, have made the Kurds a bigger threat to Turkey than ISIS. “The fear of the Turkish state started with the Kurdish defeat of ISIS in Tel Abyad,” says Waziri.

Turkey: Gov’t whistleblower says recent attacks in Suruç, Kilis were plots designed by Turkish officials

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A screenshot taken from whistleblower fuatavni’s Twitter account. (Photo: Today's Zaman)

A screenshot taken from whistleblower fuatavni’s Twitter account. (Photo: Today’s Zaman)

The suicide attack in the southeastern town of Suruç on July 20 and the shooting of a soldier in the southern province of Kilis on Thursday, both of which were supposedly carried out by militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), were in fact plots designed by Turkish officials, a government whistleblower has said. Report by ZAMAN

Fuat Avni, a Twitter figure who regularly reveals inside information on allegedly secret meetings of high-ranking government officials, claimed on his account on Sunday evening that a secret meeting was held by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the presidential palace on Thursday.

Avni claims National Intelligence Organization (MİT) head Hakan Fidan, Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu and former Interior Minister Efkan Ala were present at the meeting.

The whistleblower said word had broken out a short while before the meeting began that a soldier had been killed in Kilis.

“What coincidence that those who said they’d send four people to Syria and fire eight rockets at Turkey to start a war were also at the meeting,” Fuat Avni said, referring to Fidan, adding, “Instead of eight rockets there were 10 ISIL militants.”

In March 2014, a conversation in which the voices of then-Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, Sinirlioğlu, Fidan and Deputy Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaşar Güler are heard discussing whether Turkey should conduct a military incursion into Syria was leaked online.

In the audio tape Fidan is allegedly heard saying: “If needed, I will dispatch four men to Syria. [Then] I will have them fire eight mortar shells at the Turkish side and create an excuse for war. We can also have them attack the tomb of Süleyman Şah as well.”

Fuat Avni claims Erdoğan and his advisors decided to conduct air strikes against ISIL targets without even informing acting Prime Minister Davutoğlu. According to Fuat Avni, the army is playing into Erdoğan’s plans without being aware.

“For ISIL to strike Turkey, when Yezid [Erdoğan] and his gang are their biggest supporters, is nonsensical. Both Suruç and Kilis were Yezid’s decision, not ISIL’s,” wrote Fuat Avni, who added Erdoğan is trying to provoke ISIL into reacting to the assaults.

The whistleblower refrains from directly using Erdoğan’s name. Instead he uses the reference “Yezid,” the Umayyad Caliph, who according to Islamic historical belief allowed his opponent, the grandson of Prophet Mohammed, to die of thirst in the battle of Kerbela. Due to his crime against the family of the Prophet, the name Yezid is commonly reviled in all sects of Islam and used to belittle and vilify the opponent.

Fuat Avni says Erdoğan aims to create an environment of chaos during which MİT agents within ISIL will provoke the group and a conflict will ensue between ISIL militants and Turkish law enforcement personnel.

He also claims Fidan has activated MİT agents within the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) to start uprisings like those that began in October 2014 in the predominantly Kurdish Southeast.

Violence erupted on Oct. 6 and 7 in Kurdish southeastern regions following reports that ISIL was close to capturing the town of Kobani, which was being defended by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), a Syrian-based affiliate of the outlawed PKK.

Protesters, who were angry at the government for not intervening to save the town despite a heavy military presence at the border, took to the streets nationwide. More than 40 people died during the protests, mainly in the Southeast, while hundreds of people — including 140 members of the security forces — were injured.

NATO fully supports Turkey terrorism in the Region & in its offensive against the Kurds

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1280px-Flag_of_NATO.svgThe Atlantic Alliance, meeting in emergency Tuesday in Brussels at the request of Turkey, has provided strong support for Ankara in its dual offensive against Kurdish rebels and the Islamic State group.

“NATO following developments very closely and we assure our Turkish ally our strong solidarity,” said the secretary general of NATO, Norway’s Jens Stoltenberg, at the opening of the meeting of ambassadors of the 28 member countries the Alliance.

“Terrorism in all its forms can not under any circumstances be justified or tolerated,” Mr. Stoltenberg argued, citing “instability to the gates of Turkey and the borders of NATO.”

Long accused of complacency vis-à-vis the radical organizations in struggle against the regime in Damascus, the Turkish Islamic-conservative government comes to change tack after the deadly suicide bombing Suruç (southern Turkey), attributed to IE, and the death of one of its soldiers killed in a jihadist attack on the Syrian border.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated on Tuesday that his country would not bow to the threat “terrorist” and continue with “determination” its fight against the jihadists of the Islamic State (EI) and the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK ).

“There’s no way to retreat. This is a long process and this process will continue with the same determination, “Erdogan promised when opened the Nato meeting on the security situation in Turkey.

PARIS The Kurds condemn the murderous duplicity of Turkey

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Jean Eckian + photos

Jean Eckian + photos

Since the suicide attack against the Kurdish community to Suruç, near the Syrian border, and the Turkish air strikes in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Kurdo-Alevi diaspora and Yezidi multiplies mobilizations to denounce the duplicity of the Turkish state is in its -disante military intervention against Daech.

Monday, July 27 late in the afternoon, while Kobanî was the target of the Turkish Air Force in the morning, the Kurdish Democratic Council in France and Kurdish progressive organizations brought together nearly a hundred militants near the Turkish Embassy in Paris, “protected” by a CRS platoon to hammer again if it were, that the international community should not fall into the Turkish trap aimed only at eliminating the Kurdish fighters, sworn enemies of Daech the purpose to monopolize the region and take power. This was denounced in essence Berivan Akyol (CNDK), Ara Toranian (CFC), Dominique Adenot (PCF mayor of Champigny-sur-Marne) and representatives of the Kurds, Alevis, Yezidis and the Kabyle people.

The Kurdish Democratic Council in France demands the immediate cessation of the bombing of the Turkish Air Force on the Kurdish people, predicting a possible next fall of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It also calls on the international community to mobilize for any purpose to find a political solution to the crisis and restore peace.

Servan Varto, military leader of the PKK killed in Turkish bombing in northern Iraq

Turkey unlikely to turn into target for Islamic State – Ruben Melkonyan

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f55b740c937ef5_55b740c937f31.thumbTurkey has to this day been the Islamic State’s important ally rather than a target for it, expert in Turkic studies Ruben Melkonyan, told Tert.am as he commented on a document released by a Turkish court, which claims Turkey is the Islamic State’s principal target in the region.

“This conduct is typical of Turkey, and this country is an expert in changing masks in different periods – betraying the offender in favor of the defender, terrorists in favor of champions of anti-terrorism. I do not think anyone has forgotten Turkey’s active support to the Islamic State,” Mr Melkonyan sad.

The current developments are the result of the regional processes and the United State’s changed position.

“Previously by cashing in on Islam, Turkey was seeking a status of coordinating center for Islamic forces and terrorist groups, whereas it is changing its mask to appear as a national battling terrorism,” the expert said.

The United States obviously caused a situation by means of Islamic extremists only to destroy the extremist movements later, which is actually happening now.

“I think the policy was aimed at turning the territories under extremists’ control into a state controlled by pro-US forces or into a state-like structure with the lowest possible number of extremist groups or people favoring extremist ideas,” Mr Melkonyan said.

With respect to Turkey statements that terrorists plan terrorist acts in its territory, the expert said:

“Turkey expected the threat to a certain extent. Actions are sure to exceed the forecasts, but I do not think turkey will become a clear target for the Islamic State as the two are linked to each other through various events. Turkey is now striking extremist groups, which will ensure a favorable reputation for the country in the world as a champion of anti-terrorist struggle.”

European Armenian Federation condemns Turkey terrorist attack on Suruc

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Eu-ArmenianEuropean Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy (EAFJD) President Kaspar Karampetian condemned the July 20 terrorist attack in the Kurdish-populated town of Suruc, Turkey and conveyed condolences to the families, Armenian Weekly reported.

“This terrorist act is all the more monstrous considering that the youth was gathered in Suruc to go and volunteer in Kobane, and assist the reconstruction of the city after the destruction by Daesh (ISIS). Our thoughts go to the families of those killed and the hundreds injured,” said Karampetian.

Karampetian stressed that the attack is clearly the result of the Turkish authorities’ open support of ISIS. “Sooner or later, Erdogan’s policy of supporting the terrorists in Syria would turn against him; unfortunately, this is the case now, with the loss of innocent young lives,” said Karampetian.

“The European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy with all its organizations joins the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK), the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), the Party of European Socialists (PES), and the whole democratic world in condemning this terrorist act. It’s the moral obligation of democratic forces to support the Kurds in their fight for democracy and justice,” he added.

At least 31 people were killed and over 100 were injured in a terrorist attack on Monday.

#Iraqi top commander says #Turkey still backing #ISIL, #BoycottTurkishProduct

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Hadi al-Ameri, the commander of the Iraqi volunteer forces fighting the ISIL Takfiri group in Iraq (AFP)

Hadi al-Ameri, the commander of the Iraqi volunteer forces fighting the ISIL Takfiri group in Iraq (AFP)

The commander of the Iraqi volunteer forces fighting the ISIL Takfiri group says there is no evidence that Turkey has altered its stance against the terrorist group and is still supporting the militants.

“Turkey has not changed its stance; it carried out operations against the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), which is fighting with the Kurds against ISIL in Syria,” Hadi al-Ameri said on Monday.

Ameri made the remarks after a meeting between Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

Turkey launched a military campaign against what it claims to be ISIL targets in Syria and PKK positions in northern Iraq last week, after an ISIL attack in the southwestern Turkish town of Suruç claimed the lives of at least 32 people on July 20.

“Turkey still supports ISIL right now,” said Ameri, adding “I think [the strikes] Turkey carried out were to support ISIL and not what some had imagined,” said Ameri.

Ankara blames the PKK for a string of attacks against its security forces in recent days and has vowed to continue fighting ISIL, which has taken over parts of land in Syria, Iraq and Libya.

Turkey’s pledge to confront ISIL Takfiris comes despite its longtime support for the militancy against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, with reports showing that Ankara actively trains and arms the Takfiri extremists operating in Syria, and also facilitates the safe passage of foreign terrorists into the Arab country.

Iraq’s army has been joined by Kurdish forces, Shia volunteers and Sunni tribesmen in operations to drive the ISIL terrorists out of the areas the Takfiri militants have seized.

Source: presstv

Kurdish YPG forces retake Syrian town from ISIL despite of Turkey & its allay ISIS attack on Kurd #BoycottTurkishProduct

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A fighter from the Kurdish People Protection Unit (YPG) watches smoke billowing into the sky in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah on June 28, 2015. (© AFP)

A fighter from the Kurdish People Protection Unit (YPG) watches smoke billowing into the sky in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah on June 28, 2015. (© AFP)

Kurdish fighters have managed to retake a town in Syria’s northern province of Aleppo from Takfiri ISIL militants as they continue to push the terrorists back from the area. Report Presstv

The People’s Protection Units (YPG) forces took full control of the town of Sarrin, which lies northeast of the provincial capital of Aleppo and situated 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) east of the Euphrates River, on Sunday, following days of heavy clashes with ISIL terrorists, the Kurdish-language Rudaw television network reported on Monday.

Kurdish troopers also wrested control of the nearby districts of Mujbala, Iza’a, Tal Showaiha and Shaikh Salih.

Meanwhile, Syrian army forces inflicted heavy losses on foreign-backed militants as they carried out mop-up operations against them.

On Monday, scores of al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front terrorists were killed during intense clashes with Syrian troops in the Khan al-Sheeh neighborhood southwest of the capital, Damascus, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported.

Syrian troopers also fired a barrage of mortar rounds at militant hideouts in Jubata al-Khashab and Tranja villages, located approximately four kilometers (2.4 miles) north of Syria’s southwestern city of Quneitra. A number of al-Nusra Front Takfiris were reportedly killed in the attacks.

Separately, Syrian government forces killed several ISIL militants on the outskirts of the ancient city of Palmyra, situated 215 kilometers (133 miles) northeast of Damascus.

The developments come as Syrian army soldiers and Kurdish forces have managed to make gains against ISIL terrorists in Syria’s northeastern city of Hasakah.

Last month, ISIL terrorists began their assault on Hasakah before capturing a number of its neighborhoods and forcing the evacuation of many of its residents.

The conflict in Syria, which started in March 2011, has reportedly claimed more than 230,000 lives up until now.

The violence has also forced over 3.8 million Syrians to take refuge in neighboring countries, including Jordan and Lebanon. More than 7.2 million others have been displaced within Syria, according to the United Nations.