After a phone call with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the President of Turkey US president Donald Trump has announced the removal of US troops from the Syrian border and given the Turkish government the green light for an invasion of North-Eastern Syria. The world can now expect another round of terrible violence as Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies attack the Syrian Democratic Forces – the main Syrian partner of the US, UK and France.

The target and indeed greatest victim of any Turkish incursion is the 3 million strong Kurdish population of Northern Syria. The largest and most popular Kurdish political party in Northern Syria is the PYD – the Democratic Union Party. Turkey accuses the PYD and their militant wing – The YPG (Peoples Protection Units) – of having close links with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

The Turkish government has made its plans for the region clear. They wish to advance their troops 32 kilometers into Syria, creating a so called "peace corridor", where they will settle 1 million Syrian refugees who have fled the violence in Syria to Turkey. However, it is clear that this will fundamentally change the ethnic composition of Northern Syria and spark a terrible increase in sectarian violence.