The withdrawal of American troops allowed Turkey to launch its long-planned invasion of northeastern Syria earlier this month.
One man's sign read,"To the U.S. Army who are leaving northeast Syria now. Tell your children that the children of the Kurds were killed by the Turks and we did nothing to protect them."
Civiroglu called the video"heartbreaking" and noted that the U.S. forces had been ordered"to leave N. Syria leaving behind defenseless Kurds, Arabs, Syriacs, Yezidis." There have been numerous protests against the U.S. withdrawal in the northeastern Syria since President Donald Trump abruptly announced the decision earlier this month. Several took place in and near border towns that have now been occupied by Turkey and its Islamist Syrian proxies, such asTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long desired a military campaign in northern Syria to clear the border region from the SDF, which is led by the Kurdish People's Protection Units .
Ankara considers this militia an extension of the Kurdish Workers' Party , which has been fighting an intermittent guerrilla war against the Turkish government since the 1980s.
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