(CTV) The sister of a Canadian woman being held in a detention camp in northeastern Syria has written to the Canadian government, pleading for help following Turkey’s invasion — facilitated by U.S. President Donald Trump.
“What I need to convey to you as desperately as I can, is that my sister and the other Canadian mothers and small children will die there shortly.”
Her sister is in a camp which sits inside the so-called “safe zone” that Turkey is trying to create, which in turn will be used to settle more than a million Syrian refugees now living in Turkey. The area is known to the Kurdish indigenous population as Rojava.
The Turks, in their drive to seize the border territory, have been accused of ethnic cleansing.
