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Turkey’s Interventionism and Expanse of Influence
Over the last two years, NATO’s grievances with Turkey have significantly increased. In July of 2019 against the wishes of the United States and other NATO members Turkey purchased the S-4000 surface-to-air missile from Russia, the target country of NATO’s ire. Turkey’s offensive in northeastern Syria, Operation Peace Spring, began in October of 2019; right on the heels of the withdrawal of U.S. armed forces from the region. The leaders of France, the United Kingdom, and Germany immediately voiced concerns over the Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) in the region, who had spearheaded the fight against the Islamic State, and were left vulnerable following Erdogan’s oppression of Turkish Kurds. These concerns were well-founded, as Amnesty International reported cases of Turkish-backed militias perpetrating war crimes in the heavily Kurdish community of Afrin. Details of the attacks were gathered fro