{"id":88065,"date":"2019-10-14T18:28:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T12:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10926"},"modified":"2019-10-14T18:28:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T12:58:20","slug":"operation-peace-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/operation-peace-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Peace Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>India has expressed deep concern over Turkey\u2019s unilateral military operation called Operation Peace Spring against the Syrian Kurdish militia (YPG) in Northeast Syria.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Operation Peace Spring:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Turkish military has launched a major cross-border operation in north-eastern Syria against a Kurdish-led militia alliance allied to the United States.<\/li><li>This move came after US troops, who relied on the Kurds to defeat the Islamic State(IS) group on the ground in Syria withdrew from the border area.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why has Turkey launched an assault?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Turkey considers the biggest militia in the Kurdish-led alliance a terrorist group.It says it is an extension of a Kurdish rebel group fighting in Turkey.<\/li><li>Turkey also wants 32km (20-mile) deep safe zone along the Syrian side of the border clear of Kurdish fighters.It hopes to resettle up to 2 million Syrian refugees currently living in Turkey at that safe zone.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Who are Kurds?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Kurds are one of the indigenous peoples of the Mesopotamian plains and the highlands in what are now south-eastern Turkey, north-eastern Syria, northern Iraq, north-western Iran and south-western Armenia.<\/li><li>Today, they form a distinctive community, united through race, culture and language even though they have no standard dialect.&nbsp;<\/li><li>They also adhere to a number of different religions and creeds, although the majority are Sunni Muslims.<\/li><li>In the early 20th Century, many Kurds demanded the creation of a homeland generally referred to as Kurdistan.<\/li><li>However,the boundaries of modern map of middle east made no provision for a Kurdish state and left Kurds with minority status in their respective countries.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/9Q4fnz7GS6ue3Gytkjm7cY7f_Ri4g0O1OUjfL9QHEvotKYyyoFA1pgI3RZlCXCSG5MO5OG28BgDAAYkpvGAoVY60htA2s5bZWFv4ZRQluZO8goLs5WrOVEkm7fHmG9kZXDqrfYKK\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:India has expressed deep concern over Turkey\u2019s unilateral military operation called Operation Peace Spring against the Syrian Kurdish militia (YPG) in Northeast Syria. Facts: About Operation Peace Spring: The Turkish military has launched a major cross-border operation in north-eastern Syria against a Kurdish-led militia alliance allied to the United States. This move came after US&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/operation-peace-spring\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Operation Peace Spring<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[5777],"class_list":["post-88065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-operation-peace-spring","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}