A war crime haunts Erdogan …

On Monday morning, the Arab newspapers touched up on to the developments in the north of Syria.

Al-Arab newspaper: a war crime described haunt Erdogan

Al-Arab newspaper said, "Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is chasing a war crime described after the assassination of Hefrin Khalaf the Secretary-General of the Future Syria party in a heinous manner that has aroused international and popular political condemnation.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) accused pro-Turkish fighters of killing Hafrin in an ambush on a road in northern Syria on Saturday.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks the war in Syria, said Turkish-backed groups had killed nine civilians on the road, including Hefrin Khalaf, secretary general of Syria's secular Future Party.

Activists revealed in a video broadcast on a private channel in the application of Telegram, in which one of the gunmen, saying that the assassination "Liwa al-Sultan" and supported by the Turkish army and involved in the ongoing fighting.

Observers considered that the violations practiced by Turkish forces since the beginning of the military operation, will be the attention of the international community and international human rights organizations, and that the international capitals that hastened to condemn the military operations will reposition within what is like a comprehensive international coalition to launch waves of sanctions against Turkey, to force it To stop its military operations, and to stop the tampering of Ankara's forces and the Syrian militias.

Diplomatic sources said that the crime committed against the Secretary-General of the Future Syria Party, was not a coincidence and accident, but rather a planned and systematic behavior to purge the region of Kurdish political platforms.  And added that the assassination operations, based on information and ambushes, based on Turkish intelligence data to annihilate the state of objection represented by the Kurdish movement within all currents, parties and political groups.

Al-Ahram: EU ministers are considering steps against Turkey after the attack on Syria

Al-Ahram followed the movements of European countries regarding these attacks and said "The EU foreign ministers are expected to discuss on Monday the bloc's response to the Turkish military incursion into northern Syria, With the possibility of considering sanctions and an arms embargo at the EU level.

The incursion drew condemnation from Turkey's Western allies amid fears of a severe humanitarian crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for an "immediate end" to the operation during a telephone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday.

EU diplomats said they did not expect sanctions resolutions to be taken at today's talks in Luxembourg. The issue is likely to be discussed at a summit of EU leaders later this week.

Al-Arab: Erdogan reveals his ambitions: We will invade the entire north of Syria

Al-Arab newspaper also said "Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday revealed the intention of his army to penetrate from Kobani (Ain al-Arab) in the west to al-Hasakah in the Far East up to a depth of 35 km inside Syrian territory, stressing that Western threats of sanctions on Ankara and ban the export of weapons to it He will not push him to stop the operation. "

 “We first focused on the 120km area between Ras Al- Ain and Tal- Abyad,” Erdogan said. We will then divide the 480-kilometer terrorist corridor from the center.”

"After that, we will control al-Hasakah on one side and Ain al-Arab (Kobani) on the other side and complete the operation," he said, referring to the towns on either side of the current focus of operations. "We will go to a depth of 30 to 35 kilometers, according to a map of the safe area that we announced earlier," he said.

Analysts say that the position of the main parties involved in the Syrian war reveals collusion with Turkey, pointing out that the administration of President Donald Trump bears the first moral responsibility in its decision to open the way for Ankara to invade eastern Euphrates.

Some argue that there are no third explanations behind the change in US strategy in Syria. The first is that it comes in the context of a major deal involving Russia to end the Syrian war, especially since Moscow's positions appeared weak in criticizing the Turkish operation.

The second explanation is that the United States is reactivating the policy of double containment by pushing the rest of the conflicting parties into a war of attrition, especially if the Kurds and their feast put themselves at the disposal of Damascus and Moscow.

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ANHA