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I spent over five years working in the Middle East. Abandoning Kurdish allies in Syria is disheartening. | Opinion

U.S. must exercise moral authority by demanding that the Kurds receive their just due: protection from oppression and a state of their own.

A man kisses a poster of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during show of support by about a dozen people for Turkey's operation in Syria, in the border town of Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, on Monday, Oct. 14, 2019. Erdogan has signaled that Turkish troops and their Syrian opposition allies are ready to launch an assault on the Syrian Kurdish held city of Manbij, Syria.
A man kisses a poster of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during show of support by about a dozen people for Turkey's operation in Syria, in the border town of Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, on Monday, Oct. 14, 2019. Erdogan has signaled that Turkish troops and their Syrian opposition allies are ready to launch an assault on the Syrian Kurdish held city of Manbij, Syria.Read moreLefteris Pitarakis / AP
    by Alexander Emmert, For The Inquirer
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