Turkish defense minister says that at least 342 people had been killed in Ankara’s invasion and attack of northern Syria since it began 2 days ago.
Government officials told locals to stay indoors or to relocate, and overnight the population seemed to melt away. At a bazaar that was buzzing just the day before, there was no activity and those shops that were open were seemingly mostly owned by Syrian refugees.
The U.S. set down red lines for the offensive Thursday that would trigger economic sanctions, including ethnic cleansing and indiscriminate fire directed at civilian populations. But many of those on the ground in northeast Syria and even those as far away as Erbil, the Kurdish regional capital of Iraq, had one word to describe America's decision to step aside and“You can’t call Trump’s actions anything other than a betrayal,” said Lina Barakat, a representative of the Syrian Women’s Council, an organization that promotes women’s rights based in northeast Syria.
Local journalists also published photos of bodies draped in cloth. On the other side of the border, similar photos circulated, including a child-size coffin draped in a Turkish flag.
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