As Afghanistan crumbles, Turkey's airstrikes set up the next disaster
While the United States and the rest of the world were focused on Afghanistan, Turkey carried out airstrikes that hit genocide survivors in Iraq and members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) - allies who led the fight against ISIS.
In August 2014, Islamic State militants launched an assault on Sinjar, Iraq, killing thousands of Yazidis - a religious minority group with roots in northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, the Caucasus region and Iran. The militants assaulted men and enslaved Yazidi women and children. From there, in February 2015, ISIS rampaged into Syria, where they attacked Assyrian villages and abducted Christians.
The United States recognized these atrocities as a genocide and has invested considerable resources to help endangered communities recover. Turkey's ongoing offensive in Iraq and Syria is making any recovery process far more difficult, if not impossible.
On Aug. 16 in Sinjar, a Turkish drone killed Yazidi leader Hassan Saeed on the day he was scheduled to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Khadimi. It was the first visit of an Iraqi prime minister to Sinjar in the post-Saddam era.
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Another of our so called allies.