This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and

underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to researcher and writer Alexander

Mciva he's going to be talking to us about why Turkey has started bombing northeast and Syria or Rajava, the Kurdish areas,

right after a very suspicious, quote unquote Kurdish terrorist attack inside Istanbul that happened on

November 13th. Turkey is blaming the YPG the Kurdish militia that runs

Rajava none of it really adds up. Alexander is going to talk to us about the damaging

effect these airstrikes have had on the Kurds in Rajava. If you like what

we're doing support us at patreon.. For what the last, like, it's almost two months now I believe right Turkey has decided to start

bombing Rajava the Kurdish areas of northern northeastern Syria well I'll let you explain it.

Why are they doing it again for like the 100th time?

Why are they bombing the Kurds in Northeastern Syria again?

So it all really began. the bombing in Istanbul on November 13th. This was a terrorist

attack carried out, killed six people targeting like a you know a busy pedestrian

boulevard. Turkey immediately used this as a or immediately blamed the

YPG as the culprits of the attack and uses essentially as an

excuse to launch a new operation with across northern Syria and And of course, and so Turkey has not really put forth any information regarding the

lengths that would prove that the YPG is related to the attack.

And of course, the YPG and the PKK and everyone has denied the attack.

So the evidence is really quite weak.

So several days after this occurred the these airstrikes across all of

Northeastern Syria and even some of the West that's controlled by the SDF began and these began on

November 20th and really quite intense. Turkey's been bombing parts of

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