This essay, on the deeper loss presaged by the Turkish invasion of northern Syria, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 27 October 2019, under the headline ‘Syria’s Kurds dreamt of a ‘Rojava revolution’. Assad will snuff this out’. 300,000 people displaced. Villages and infrastructure destroyed. Allegations of white phosphorus use. The costs of the Turkish invasion of northern Syria to create a ‘safe zone’ are immense, the latest twist in the seemingly intractable Syrian war. Beyond the immediate human costs, there […]

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