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Today.as they re spread across four countries. southeastern turkey, northeastern syria, northern iraq and northwestern iran. kurds make up 7 to 10 pes% of syria s population. 20% of turkey s and 15 to 20% of f iraq s population. the relationship between the syrian government and the country s kurdish population has as we ve been describing, been fraught before the civil war, many syrian kurds were denied citizenship but after the fighting began in 2011, they never sided with the rebels against the government and at time, they ve been willing to work with thevend government. kurdish fighters, the ypg, became a strong force because they filled the void left when government authority collapsed this large parts of syria. after isis took control of much of northern and eastern syria, the ypg joined with several local arab militias to form the ....
Sdf. with help from a u.s.-led coalition, they drove isis from its territory, inclueing areas along the border and the de facto isis capital, raqqa. syria says ito feels threatene by advances made by syria s kurd. there s already deep seeded hostility between the government and population. in 1984, the kurdistana s work party, the pkk, which calls for kurdish aton autonomy, began an arms struggle that continues to this day. in the past 35 years, more than 40,000 people have been kill nd that struggle. now turkey considers ypg forces in syria to be an extension of the pkk in turkey, which it has declared to be a terrorist organization. in the meantime, syrian kurdish forces are holding more than 10,000 isis fighters, including 2,000 foreigners, in several ....
Responsible whistleblower makes all americans safer by ensuring that serious wrong doing can be ga investigated and addressed ed thus advancing the cause of national security to which we have devoted our careers. all americans should be united in demand iing that all branche of government and all outlets of media protect this whistleblower and his or her identity. simply put, he or she has done what our law demands. now he or she deserves our protection. the fishes who served under democratic and republican presidents signed this this letter. one joins me now who served in several national security positions in the last three administration, including president trump s. he s an msnbc national security and intelligence analyst. nick, lindsey graham says that if this goes toward an investigation, he wants that whistleblower named. let alone the second one who s coming forward now who has firsthand information. ....
Another republican senator criticizing to help democratic opponent. joe biden, that is, but this senator is stopping short of calling for impeachment. while explicitly saying that the issue at hand is not an impeachable offense, ohio republican senator rob portman reportedly told the columbus dispatch quote the president should not have raised the biden issue on that call, period. it s not appropriate for a president to engage a foreign government in an investigation of a political opponent. the paper goes on to quote portman saying that if bipartisan groups such as the senate intelligence committee could investigate the allegations surrounding trump, including alsos that the fbi was politicize d in 2016. now to the 2020 race. senator warren is rising in several national polls. one group has yet to rally around her in large numbers and that s african-american voters. as the new york times points out, quote, african-americans ....
Anything done to undermine these protection will make us less safe over time and less informed over time want what our government is doing. so we happen to know from history, from water gate to the military through government when i whistle blowers that some of the biggest things we never would have known and it was really good we did know, came from whistle blowers. graham is a military guy. wi would republicans not see this as clearly as anyone else? you re a whistleblower. you should protect whatever side. whoever they tend to damage or protect. well there s a tendency to look at whistle blowers through a partisan lens and figure out what is their political agenda in bringing forward the information they re bringing. that s why you hear the president using words like partisan hack or even worse, words like treason or a spy. and of course those are loaded words. they suggest something about somebody who s maybe perhapsing ....