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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Turkish proxy forces are being hit hard by the SDF on all fronts, but the Turkish military is refusing to be distracted, and remaining focused on their true enemy: grain silos and water pumping stations.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 26/12/2024

Huge flex by the main SDF spox here, dismissing claims that Turkish-backed forces have taken strategically vital Tishreen Dam by filming himself standing on it "Today is a day of dignity, a day of honour. Because this is not war against a dam, or against a village, this is a war against everything"

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 20/12/2024

Local journalists in North East Syria are so likely to be targeted by Turkey that their agencies get them to contribute to their own obituaries, while at the same time Western press are in Damascus asking the big questions like if Jolani will allow alcohol and christmas trees.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 20/12/2024

Not content with being one of the biggest jailers of journalists worldwide, Turkey seeks to control the narrative in Syria by murdering those they can’t arrest. Cîhan & Nazim made invaluable contributions from a region being mostly ignored by the international media.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 20/12/2024

Devastated to learn Turkey just killed 2 much-loved Kurdish journalists in Syria in a targeted drone strike. Nazim (left) was the first local journo I met when I joined the RIC. Both were fearless in their reporting from Syria in the face of constant threats to their lives.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 17/12/2024

I spoke to @jamesstout.bsky.social on the It Could Happen Here podcast about the current situation in Syria, and what it means for the future of Rojava: www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

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What’s Happening In Rojava - It Could Happen Here

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 10/12/2024

Turkey's SNA forces in Syria are sharing a video of them questioning and then executing wounded soldiers as they lay in their hospital beds. Not posting the video, but this is precisely the kind of thing we expected from Turkish forces based on previously documented warcrimes.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 08/12/2024

As details emerge from SDF and local sources, today’s impressive defence of Manbij is proof that a lightly armed but well prepared and highly disciplined defender can inflict intolerable losses on a more numerous & much better equipped attacker, even one with total air supremacy.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 08/12/2024

"The era of tyranny is over" Confident statement by NES's defacto foreign minister that follows similarly positive messaging from other noteable leaders. They've kept the democratic confederalist project alive until now, and I am cautiously optimitic they'll continue to do so.

The era of tyranny is over
Today we turn the page on the past and open the door of hope to unify the efforts of Syrians towards a better future based on justice and democracy.
Let us stop the shooting and make dialogue the basis for peace and construction.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 07/12/2024

Entering a very dangerous period for Rojava; a massive assault on Manbij is underway. The SNA (opposition faction distinct from HTS) are attempting to capture the city from the SDF by attacking on 3 sides. The SNA have been responsible for some of the most apalling atrocities...

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

There's a lot of talk of strategic points and captured equipment and so on, but for me the main thing is that people can go to school, or the shops, or for a walk across town, without having to cross potentially hostile checkpoints. People can drive around the ring road. Life will be easier.

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Woke up this morning to news that the SDF control all of Hasakah and Qamişlo. It's amazing that this is how it ends, after all the blood that's been spilt over those enclaves.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 07/12/2024

End of an era in Qamişlo and Heseke as loyalist areas come under SDF control. Many large posters of Assad, lots of Zahreddine too, and a really amateur statue of Hafaz on the corner of the park. All will be pulled down over the coming days. Photo from my first full year in Rojava, 2019.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 07/12/2024

Post-Assad Syria, what are you most looking forward to? 🚂 Restoration of Al-Ya’rubiyah-Damascus train line? 🛫 €29 Ryanair flights to Qamişlo? 🍫 Return of SnackBars (Syrian Snickers) at original price of $1 per dozen? ☠️ Ba’ath party loyalists getting the noose?

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 04/12/2024

The Kurdish Red Crescent are actively calling for donations. They are currently the only NGO providing aid to the 200,000+ refugees arriving into Tabqa and Minbij, and will inevitably be responsible for building longer-term camps for them. Please donate if you can.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 04/12/2024

A 🧵 on current SDF/AANES situation in: 1. Northern Aleppo & Til Rifaat 2. Minbij region 3. Deir-ez-Zor, specifically Khasham pocket Based on conversations with people on the ground there. (As a caveat, I'm not a member of the SDF and don't speak for them)

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 04/12/2024

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 04/12/2024

Honestly this is the single most comprehensible introduction to current situation in Syria and I wish I'd seen it 7 years ago. It's now my default response when a friend or family member asks me what's going on 'over there'.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 30/11/2024

Hard to explain to my friends that haven’t spent time in Rojava but if a single photo could describe the last 6 years of my life it would look something like this. twitter.com/AliiAmmarrr/...

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bianet English @bianet-eng.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Kurdish poet İlhan Sami Çomak released from prison after 30 years “I had imagined being freed on a brighter and sunnier day, seeing the light in my loved ones’ eyes in a different atmosphere. But this is good too—I’m free at last," Çomak said upon his release. bianet.org/haber/kurdis...

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 27/11/2024

Now well into its second decade, the Syrian civil war just reignited as Turkish-backed islamist groups in the North West have launched a massive offensive against the Russian-backed regime, right at the same time as the Kurdish-led SDF launched a series of devastating raids on those same militias.

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Imgs via dean_sewell (www.instagram.com/dean_sewell) @risingtideaus.bsky.social just ran a 3 day coal port blockade in Australia. After the continued failure that is COP, the blockade is the only political horizon left for the environment movement

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 24/11/2024

Heading to Tal Temir in the Springtime. Abdulaziz mountains in the distance.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 23/11/2024

$250 billion is equivalent to 57 days of NATO’s aggregate 2024 defence expenditure. In fact the US on their own could pay the extra $250bn out of their defence budget and still have the highest defence expenditure on Earth www.bbc.com/news/live/c8...

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 23/11/2024

Absolutely convinced that we can tempt Greta to join a Jineoloji education in Rojava

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 23/11/2024

My first holiday in 6 years. Quite a change from Al-Hasakah

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 23/11/2024

Cooling off the in Euphrates, Raqqa, Syria.

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Emergency Committee for Rojava @defendrojava.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Turkish strikes in Syria cut water to one million people: “Let me tell you frankly, north-east Syria is facing a humanitarian catastrophe,” said Yayha Ahmed, co-director of the city water board. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Turkish strikes in Syria cut water to one million people

The attacks have added to a humanitarian crisis in a region reeling from civil war and extreme drought.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 22/11/2024

The BBC's recent documentary on the water crisis in Rojava ends with 3 outright lies by the Turkish government. I get why BBC editors (who seemingly live in fear of being accused of bias) felt the need to include these, but allowing Turkey to have the last word with no counterpoint is inexcusable.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 21/11/2024

Just noticed that the BBC's recent documentary on the (entirely man-made and preventable) water crisis in Al-Hasaka region in North East Syria is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UZP...

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Life at 50°C: Syria’s water war - BBC World Service Documentaries

YouTube video by BBC World Service

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 21/11/2024

Russian use of ICBMs against Ukraine just now is certainly the biggest geopolitical taboo that I've seen broken in my lifetime. Can't help wondering if NATO were informed about their payload beforehand to avoid a nuclear response.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 21/11/2024

Pre-emptively started block/mute list for Bluesky for the inevitable flood of Turkish nationalists and assorted jihadis as Twitter collapses: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 20/11/2024

Dusty trip home from Şededî

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

go.bsky.app/6byAs25

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 20/11/2024

So glad to see the BBC reporting on this crisis that threatens to snowball into a catastrophe if serious international support doesn’t materialise. Al-Hasakah was already in crisis when I first moved there in 2020 and since then water has only become more scarce. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Turkish strikes in Syria cut water to one million people

The attacks have added to a humanitarian crisis in a region reeling from civil war and extreme drought.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 20/11/2024

Up to 20 on the list so far. Who else should be on there?

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 18/11/2024

“we should also be divesting away from weapons and the military” Calling for this while the UK is (w/huge public support) an active participant in Europe’s worst war since 1945 is the kind of messaging that puts otherwise green-aligned people off voting Green. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

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Climate crisis and conflict in Gaza are ‘interlinked’, protesters say

Around 1,000 protesters gathered in central London on Saturday to demand an end to fossil fuels and ‘UK complicity in the Gaza genocide’.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 17/11/2024

My first 100 followers on here: tell me a little about yourselves.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 16/11/2024

Building up a Rojava starter-pack, for those covering events there and across Syria and Kurdistan. Who should I include in it? go.bsky.app/Ce8oGKM

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 13/11/2024

Tonight I'll be taking part in the latest instalment of 'Planted in this Land', a land justice study group run by the Glasgow Seed Library. Join us online from 18:30 UTC. To take part or learn more visit: www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/pl...

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Planted in this Land (Online)

CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts is Glasgow’s hub for the arts, hosting exhibitions, films, music, literature, workshops, festivals and performances.

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