Aleppo resident reacts to Turkish intervention
Salman al-Ali, a 37-year old history teacher from Aleppo, told Middle East Eye that he thought Turkey was intervening in Syria to pursue short terms interests rather than fundamentally change the situation on the ground:
"They should have acted long ago! Why did they wait that long? They could have saved more lives in Syria, but they didn't.
"Now they are invading the town of Jarablus with their plan to re-assemble the Free Syrian Army with fighting IS as their priority, not fighting the regime and its militias.
"In my perspective they've been waiting until the situation in Aleppo was like it is now. The Kurdish situation as well in Hasakah is intense with regime and all these parties are exhausted.
"So they entered Syria without any expectation of any military reaction from the regime who is already busy with many battles.
"Turkey wants to make a no-fly zone. I think the plan in northern Syria, in the short term, is to change who is taking control in many areas.
"Many will retreat and other forces will vanish in one part and many things will happen! But I can't imagine how things will go in Aleppo. It's very complicated here!"